Question by Scooter_The_Christmas_Squirrel: Can you believe this? After killing a woman after drinking Jim Leyritz is caught again? Did he learn ->?
Anything or care about the pain & suffering he caused for his actions? Here is some of the story plus the link if you want to read the rest.
Ex-Yankee Jim Leyritz accused of drinking, goes back to jail
BY TODD WRIGHT
twright@MiamiHerald.com
Ex-New York Yankee Jim Leyritz has been arrested on charges that he violated his bond by drinking alcohol while awaiting trial for allegedly driving drunk in 2007 and killing a woman.
Leyritz, who has been out on a pretrial release since the arrest, was booked into Broward County’s main jail Friday afternoon, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Leyritz was allowed to remain free as long as he did not drink alcohol or consume a controlled substance.
But between September and January, records show Leyritz, 45, on four separate occasions attempted to drive his car with alcohol in his system, prosecutor Stefani Newman said.
Leyritz’s car is equipped with an ignition interlock system that he has to blow into before starting his vehicle. The tests only became known to prosecutors recently, but Newman would not say how she found out about the incidents.
A motion to revoke Leyritz’s bond was filed with Circuit Judge Marc Gold, who filed Leyritz’ arrest warrant Thursday.
It is unclear whether Leyritz turned himself in or deputies executed the warrant for his arrest.
Leyritz’s attorney, David Bogenschutz, has filed an emergency motion for a hearing to discuss the matter.
No hearing has been set on the issue, according to Clerk of Courts records.
”I was concerned that this is a public safety issue,” Newman said. “He poses a danger to the community.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/breaking-news/story/902568.html
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Answer by sarrafzedehkhoee
I have NO sympathy for a millionaire airhead like that. Put him right back in jail. Where he belongs.
What do you think? Answer below!
He didn’t learn anything.
Sounds like a Yankee to me.
Some people just never learn. Short of giving him a life sentence (which will never happen), there’s really no way to keep someone off the streets who is determined to drive.
Dumb and Dumber. He needs to locked up for a long stretch and get some serious help. I don’t feel sorry him. I feel sorry for his victims
People are unbelievable. Stupidity like this shouldn’t be allowed.
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What an idiot. He could rot in jail for all I care . If I were to kill someone cause I was drinking and driving I would NEVER drink again but this piece of sh*t is drinking while AWAITING TRIAL!? Put his stupid @ss under the jail please.
Okay, that’s so bad. I can’t stand drunk drivers. And I can’t stand the multiple offenders even more. Drunk drivers who kill and then drive drunk again should get time just like a premeditated murderer. Some people have sympathy and say they just made a mistake, which I don’t agree with, but fine. But to do it more than once is stupid and should have severe penalties.
Well, my state now has stiffen laws about drunk driving. In the commercials it states about if you get caught drunk driving, it will affect you and follow you for life. I tried to look up the commercial for you, but was not available on youtube.
In the end of the commercial, it has a man taking a breathalyzer behind his steering wheel, and his date gets out of the car. So, I guess anyone getting busted for drunk driving now has to keep a breathalyzer test in their cars and have to take it before driving.
I know a couple people personally who are against M.A.D.D organization, but it’s SOOOO easy for a person to be against that organization….UNTIIIIL, that person loses someone they care about to a drunk driver that kills them. Then they want justice! Talk about contradiction, if I’m using the term right!
I have had a couple of alcoholic exes, and well, I had a late fiance for 1-1/2 in my mid 20s, and he never got it. He died from cancer. He smoked heavy on top of it. It was throat cancer, had to remove his vocal chords, and lost his ability to speak. After spending a month or close to it in the hospital the first time, he gave up smoking and loathed it. However, he kept drinking, even with radiation ( he was not given chemo). He spent the last couple months of his life in a nursing home, and before then, spent some time in the hospice floor in a different hospital. He had to go inside the city to a special hospital because the suburban hospitals could not help. The cancer was all over the neck, and the swallowing hole was only a size of a pin end, or close to that. In the hospice, he asked me for alcohol, but I refused. I told the hospice nurse, but she said that since the patients were terminal and dying anyway, they can have whatever they want. But I still refused, because I refuse to enable that! Besides, I did not want to risk helping speeding up his time left on earth and play God with that! He was 45 when he passed. When he worked, he had put away a 12 pack in a single evening. Not working, be it an off day, or doctors telling him not to work, he put away up to 24. I kid you NOT, on days he did not work, he woke up with a drink, and went to bed having had a drink. Went to the washroom with the drink, even just to urinate. I remember one time him almost being broke and talking about looking in the trash for beer ( which he didn’t.) It was a very rough relationship for me. But don’t want to get into those details on here.
Sorry for having got a bit off question here, and for my long answer, but wanted to use this an opportunity to raise awareness.
The only way for them to learn, IF at all, is that they have no enablers, let them hit their rock bottom, and hope they turn to God if they had not yet.
Anyone who is reading this, if, forbid, you are in a relationship with an alcoholic who is currently drinking, or someone who becomes one, do not be afraid to say NO! If they pressure you into enabling, and buying alcohol or bailing them out, what truly helps them is you not enabling. And if they get angry and want to leave you, then let it be. Let them come to realize on their own what alcohol addiction did to them, and what have you. Them losing stuff, ENOUGH stuff, if wise enough, they will change their ways and sincerely decide to recover. That same goes for drug addiction. If you are entering a relationship with a recovering alcoholic, make sure that person has a sincere desire to stay clean for life and that person is going to meetings as often as necessary.
Edit: Not only am I GRATEFUL for M.A.D.D., but I HIGHLY admire, alongside with John Walsh, the mother who lost her child to a drunk driver, she changed a traumatic tragedy in her life and changed it into something positive. Her child’s death is not in vain because of it.
Once a compulsive shopper, always a compulsive shopper.
Once a compulsive gambler, always a compulsive gambler.
Once a compulsive drinker….
..well, you know what I mean. You can lead the horse to water, but he’ll never drink.
Wow talk about the three strike rule, the dude should be sent to the slammer after this.
Sounds like he needs help AND needs to have his carcass tossed in prison for a while.
People can learn from their mistakes.
Alcoholics tend not to, though. I’ve known some. Their promises when sober mean NOTHING, because when that drinking jones comes calling, that’s the only thing that will matter to them. Geez, they’ll drink bottles of food flavoring for the wee bit of alcohol in them. It really gets pathetic.
It’s a sickness, and they need help. But also some serious punitive response to put teeth into it. I have no sympathy for Leyritz, and I hope his judge doesn’t as well.
I am sure he will get jail time.
This is where the game of baseball could make a massive effort to clean up it’s image. Any form of counseling could have been offered back when he had his first offense…after all it was a serious offense.
If Leyritz refused counseling, as he might have done, at least baseball(I mean the Commisioners Office), could say, hey, we have programs in place, available to all ex players who need them….and we assist with the cost….but we may make deductions in the pension to defray certain expenses.
But baseball ignores the problems of ex players as usual.
Somebody who does not belong with the rest of us. If he needed to continue to drink he could have afforded taxi’s, stayed at home, walked.
He killed a woman! This man deserves nothing but the worst for his continued disregard of any human life but his own.
Alcohol is a disease, I think according to the article both of them were legally drunk. There’s no magic Medicine that cures it. Had she run a red light would the outcome have been any different? He would still have been charged with vehicular manslaughter. I’m still thinking about that poor 19 yr old you told me about the other day and the accident wasn’t even his fault.
He didn’t learn anything and put him back in jail where he belongs! I hate it when former professional athletes get away with everything.