Because when you’re serving five years for killing a guy with a shotgun and then trying to cover it up, the last thing you need to deal with is more cases. Am I right?
NEW YORK — Former NBA star Jayson Williams had done nothing illegal and was just sitting in his wrecked car when police arrested him on drunken-driving charges earlier this year, a defense lawyer said Monday.
The former New Jersey Nets player “had not, was not or was not about to do any act which constituted a crime,” attorney Oscar Holt III wrote in urging a judge to toss out the case.
Williams is serving a five-year prison sentence in New Jersey after pleading guilty there to aggravated assault for fatally shooting a limo driver in 2002. But the drunken-driving case remains open in Manhattan, where prosecutors have said his blood-alcohol level was more than double the legal limit after his Mercedes-Benz SUV crashed into a tree Jan. 5.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office had no immediate response to the papers filed Monday, saying prosecutors hadn’t had time to review them.
Nobody should get away with drunk driving, but in this case, the only things Williams damaged were his car and a tree. There’s just no way the Manhattan DA can get fired up about a case involving a celebrity if that celebrity is already serving time. It’d be like shooting a deer at a petting zoo and then mounting the head on your wall. I mean, the DA’s office is saying they haven’t had time to review the papers yet, but we all know that’s just a bullshit way of saying that they don’t give a fuck. And rightfully so, I guess…the dude ain’t going anywhere.
