Gee, a Repeat Offender
- A Mount Prospect woman who authorities say drunkenly struck a state trooper on I-294 Saturday had pleaded guilty to an aggravated DUI charge just days before and been sentenced to probation, according to Cook County court records.
Leslie W. Thurow, 59, was ordered held without bail for violating the terms of probation that were set Thursday, when she pleaded guilty in the previous incident. A ruling to hold her on $450,000 bail on charges that she struck the state trooper in the northbound lanes of the Tri-State Tollway near Berkeley Saturday afternoon was largely procedural.
Thurow also struck a van carrying seven people after driving away from the injured trooper, Assistant State’s Attorney Sean Brown, said Sunday in court.
Thurow is charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, aggravated DUI and aggravated DUI in an accident involving personal injury, all felonies, according to court records.
Thurow pleaded guilty last week to an aggravated DUI charge from earlier this year, according to court records.
Brown said Thurow also has a DUI-related conviction from 2008 and was driving without a valid driver’s license Saturday.
Pleaded guilty last week? And at least her third DUI? Why is she even permitted to own a car?
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
14 Comments:
Try her in DuPage County. They actually sentence their criminals to jail time.
Why is she not in jail????
This is a tragic incident that should never have happened. That woman should have been in jail, not on the road driving drunk yet again. My prayers for the Trooper and his family.
Forget "why is she permitted to own a car"... Why is she allowed to be out among law abiding persons? Why not lock this degenerate alcoholic up?
Third DUI?
According to what I was told a third is mandatory jail time, up to least three years.
25 thousand dollar fine.
either
A. She has one hell of attorney.
B.cash, lots of it.
C.has a Guardian Angel with beaucoup clout.
"Thurow also struck a van carrying seven people after driving away from the injured trooper..."
Couldn't have been just a nice solid bridge abutment. Oh no.
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Anonymous said...
Try her in DuPage County. They actually sentence their criminals to jail time.
9/08/2014 12:26:00 AM
Not true. Read the article in Sunday Tribune. Several suburbs prosecute DUI's and use prosecutors that allow offenders to bypass punishment and pay and fine. That is wrong.
She will have to limit her drinking to jail hootch now.
Don't even get me started on this subject. The DUI repeat offender had six convictions at the time he smashed into my daughter's car and nearly killed her and three of her friends. (Cops kids) While my daughter was on life support, he was released from 019 and drove another car three days later getting into another accident nearly destroying more families.
This will continue to occur until judges can be held accountable for their actions--which will never happen since they enact the laws.
There are ones in IDOC on their fourth, fifth, sixth DUI. Glass eye, steel plate in their head, gimp along to "dietary" all twisted up, one foot at some kind of 270-degree angle to the other -- and they're gonna go for it again the second they get out.
"Yes sir Bob. Ain't a tree or a light pole or a retainin' wall from here down to Cairo what don't bear m'mark."
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Hey Springfield, stop worrying about pensions and do something about DUI's.......
Third DUI?
According to what I was told a third is mandatory jail time, up to least three years."
According to statute, first conviction is mandatory jail time. So Cook County judges refuse to convict, and opt for supervision or a straight finding of not guilty. Too bad nobody in the media pays any attention to these details and killers go free ALL THE TIME.
Judge Kull, now a felony trial judge.
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