Oops. Houston Mayor Bill White's 17-year-old daughter was arrested on suspicion of DWI late Monday night. The Mayor says she's innocent (they always are!) and that the arrest may have been a mistake, calling his daughter "no party animal" and a "good kid" who has "always shot straight with me."
White hired Rusty Hardin, Super Lawyer Extraordinaire, to represent his daughter. Hardin, who was named the "Attorney to Hire When You're in Bad Trouble" in 2003, has pages on his website dedicated to the professional athletes and public figures he has represented over the years.
I bet Elena White can't wait until her name is on the Interweb next to figures like Calvin Murphy (three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of indecency with a child - acquitted) and Warren Moon (assault of wife - not guilty). You're famous now!
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Not condoning underage drinking/driving (b/c I realize that's how it might have read). But we don't know the circumstance on her yet. Let's say she had someone spill a beer on her at 8:00, drove home at 11:00. Yeah, she's gonna smell like beer.
If it turns out she was tanked, then fuck it -- fine her ass. But someone w/ enough sense to pass the field tests and be, as the dude put it, "cooperative as you could be" ain't tanked. Still sounds like bad luck, to me.
No doubt - ALWAYS refuse to take the breathalyzer, even if you haven't had anything to drink. I'd much rather hire an attorney to prove reasonable doubt than willingly offer my ass on a platter to the police.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS refuse the breathalyzer.
i wonder how or if this will affect daddy's potential gubernatorial run in 4 years
Superwow, don't take that field sobriety test, either. Bottom line, don't give them any evidence. Bill White doesn't want to be governor. He's gonna wipe the floor with Cornyn's sorry ass.
According to the Houston Chronicle (www.chron.com) she participated in and failed the stoopid human tricks, I mean the drunk vs sobriety test, at the scene. Just FYI. By the way, we are close to a 1,000 officers understaffed down here and hearing Houston's mayor call two officers liars (or mistake makers, if you please) can not be good for officer moral. Couple that with hiring a well known slickster lawyer who is also defending the 'temporarily former' mayor pro tem from charges in a payroll scandal and it looks really bad. By the way, this same mayor has been pushing for a 10 o'clock curfew for kids under 18. I think he should get his own house in order before brushing everyone else's kids with the bad intent brush. As far the kid goes, poor little rich girl.
She was pulled over by Precinct 5 constables, not HPD. The mayor did not call anyone a liar and the curfew initiative applies to kids under age 17 and is being sought by members of city council. And why the hell wouldn't he get the best lawyer he could to defend his kid. DWI's are no fucking joke, yo.
Well I happened to be working with a 19 year old friend of hers in the Marathon Oil Tower when this blew up. He is the older brother of her best friend and Elena had left his house 5 minutes before being pulled over. That's not much time to get drunk.
Dude, that sucks. She's going to get dumped on by so many people for basically being a high school kid that had a drink or two then drove home. (Come on -- how many of us did that when we were underage?)
I would have refused a breathalyzer, too. Hell, if I got pulled over today after a couple beers, and I passed the field sobriety test, I wouldn't take a breathalyzer. The fact that I've even known a few people that blew an "illegal" amount of alcohol when they hadn't had but a couple beers is enough to say fuck it -- limit my license for six months. I ain't paying three-to-five thousand dollars b/c some pig won't let me go after I walked a straight line and sang the ABC's backwards while touching my nose...