Reply #44: RESNICK’S DUI CASE Justice ignored police orders

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Before Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence Monday, she drove away from state troopers and local police who asked her to submit to field sobriety tests.

When she ultimately agreed to a portable breath test — which is not admissible as evidence in court — it registered 0.216, more than twice Ohio’s legal limit.

At least six motorists called 911 about a gold Jeep Grand Cherokee weaving along southbound I-75 about 2 p.m., nearly sideswiping one vehicle. Resnick’s state-owned 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee matches that description.


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Resnick pleaded no contest and was convicted in July of failure to control and weaving in Toledo after the gold 2002 Cadillac DeVille she was driving ran into the back of another vehicle at a traffic light. Public records also show she has been involved in two other accidents since 1998 in Lucas County, although she apparently was not cited in either.

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/02/02/20050202-A1-04.html