Trial Date set in Ron Book Drunk Driving Prosecution
A trial date has been set in lobbyist Ron Book’s DUI case (Case No. 19005520MU10A).
As of now, it will be taking place on September 21, 2021, before the Honorable Jill Levy, beginning 9:30AM in Courtroom 6170 of the Broward County Central Courthouse, 201 SE 6th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.
I wonder if Lauren will be there?
Unfortunately, only misdemeanor charges. Probably the most disgusting thing about the incident is that he was able to afford a Lamborghini by spreading lies and hate filled rhetoric. What is more dangerous, a homeless sex offender keeping to himself to avoid more public harassment, or an inebriated man driving a car that can go over 200 miles per hour? If he wants people to remain on a public sex offender registry for life even for a single offense, shouldn’t he have his driver’s license revoked for life? After all, we “know” that drunk drivers will do it again. He is a menace to society. (That’s sarcasm by the way. I don’t believe that one conviction for ANYTHING is a predictor of future likelihood to repeat the behavior).
Driving drunk is one of the most repeated offense out there. The perp usually believes they were targeted or the cop had it in for them. Never is it their own fault.
I believe he should have to attend driving school and required to blow into a device to start his car. Maybe an ankle device to track his movements for 6 months.
Wait? He drives himself? Figured him for a
Wait a minute! Are you saying that “they”, DUI offenders, don’t take personal responsibility, they are not accountable to their victims, they “minimize” their actions? Go figure. He and his attorneys will be able to figure a way out for him or at least he won’t be penalized near as much as most others with similar charges. The hypocrisy is not unnoticed.
I agree. This man is a hypocrite. He wants sex offender registry for life because a guy like me got caught peeing in a dark ally one night, 17 years ago. (exaggerated charge, and I had to plead guilty to public exposure to get bail). Maybe he should have to register for life as a violent drug offender, for alcohol abuse while operating a potential deadly weapon?! These sex offender laws are out of control.
Gerald
Usually a situation of Who you know, Who you pay off or do favors for, or who you sleep with to get favors in return. IE: Charges dismissed, or lowered. Evidence disappering or destroyed or speaking to the judge in private on your behalf.
In other words, many times the laws only apply to John Q public.
Do they figure he will have time to sober up by then?
If this court case was going to be televised I would have to stock up on pop corn and beer and invite my friends over.
Capt
It depends, Do you have Corona? The beer not the virus LOL
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Lots of high profile cases. This was just posted on the news about a florida police officer facing life for sex with underage girl
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-police-officer-convicted-for-attempted-enticing-of-teen-for-sex/ar-AALy7Nv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Will they just put it off yet again? He’s been delaying this case for over two years now.
He will accept a sweet plea deal.
They can (and probably will) pleas this down to a reckless driving charge, which is a criminal traffic case. But it’s not one with many consequences like taking a DUI to trial and losing. If only he could get pinched for CP or something that would put him on the registry. Just my personal fantasy.
Remember the episode of “Better Call Saul” when they swamped the judge with letters, and threatened to show up at the courtroom to make a scene?
The judge didn’t want that kind of attention on him.
Maybe the same needs to happen with this. Send countless letters to positively encourage the judge, arguing that its in the best interest of the people that he be convicted to the highest degree.
I’d watch his trial on live stream if I could and make a comment that he’s a bigger threat to Floridan communities than Florida registrants in the chat room. I don’t hate the man just tired of his powerful influence on the Florida legislature.
Potential Vehilectual Manslaughter’er
I wonder if the judge is one of the many, many Florida politicians in his pocket.
During the two years he has “fought” the charges, he’s had time to “voluntarily” complete any requirements the court would have asked for. So now he will come into the courtroom a solid citizen, having already “taken responsibility” and done what they were going to order him to do, feign remorse and walk out. He may get Salvation Army i.e. “county” probation and that’s it. Anyone expecting him to do any time is living in a fool’s paradise.
Imagine how much better our lives would have been if we’d been allowed to complete therapy before we had our cases heard.
These aren’t the charges we’re looking for. You can go about your business. Move along… move along.
JZ
I went through three different therapist before my sentencing. Even the one the state used. All spoke on my behalf in court. NONE of that mattered. The judge you are asigned determines your fate. My lawyers said the only way I could have gotten a worse judge according to my attorney was if Satan himself was the judge.
When my lawyer excused himself to go outside and throw up in the trash can, I knew I was done for.
Man that sounds like Jim Wallace in Harris County Texas. He laughed at me every time he saw me in his court. If I knew now what I didn’t know then, I would have taken the a**hole to trial!
Greig
I wanted to go to trial but for two reasons. First off I spent every dime I had on bonding out twice (They kept re-arresting me) and lawyer cost. Also law enforcement said If I plead guilty they would not go to the news with my story. (Really no story to tell)
Also did not want to put my family or the person I was seeing family through that. But yeah, sometimes looking back I should have gone to trail, at least I could have had the lawyer have the forced confession thrown out. That would have made all the difference. I asked for a lawyer 3 times and each time the cop would say “Do you want me to go to the news?”.
Thanks for the reality check! The judge I had was a member of the One Million club. My paid attorney was ineffectual as well. I may have gotten a better deal with a public pretender.
JZ
Well to show there may be hope, Bill Cosby just had his convictions overturned
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bill-cosby-s-sex-assault-conviction-overturned-by-court/ar-AALD5IP?ocid=msedgntp
CherokeeJack, I don’t know what you did…and don’t care…but if it was bad enough Satan would have probably approved of it and let you off.
Although I deserved some time for what I did do, there were BS add on charges for things I never did. So I got rail roaded by the police, the prosecutor and the judge. Instead of hiring a cut throat bastard of a lawyer, I hired a sympathetic lawyer. Nicest guy I could of hired , but nice was not what I needed even though I thought I did.
I appealed for years using the same lawyer and he redeemed himself. He used the same shaddy tatics the prosecuter did. He judge shopped and got me before a judge that actually listened and didn’t just “Judge”. He threw out the remainder of my sentence and was appalled at the time I was given as a first time offender. He never bashed the other judge and he is now on the Florida Supreme court. If I could get before him, I know he would remove me from the registry but that is not how it works I suppose.
While I don’t know about this Book character but I have had my DUI’s in the past. Funny thing is who is endangering who or who’s paying justice to defer issues. A grandmother in TN was an habitual herself, and believe it or not she had her grandchild in the car. Talk about abuse of a child. So how does one abuse a child when their was no child involved.
A DUI is endangering others and putting oneself in danger also as compared to these Sex registry schemes. Is their any true Justice in America today or who gets burned setting off fire-crackers during the 4th. Talk about a cherry bomb scheme! Remember one has the lite the fuse.
Does FAC have any friends in news media? It would be wonderful if a reporter and camera ended up in the courtroom and did a small story on it. Maybe even a few reporters from papers with large circulations to do the same.
We often think of our Media Committee’s job as responding to news reports with criticism, but it’s beyond that. Where possible, I think they try to build relationships with reporters and become a reliable source for them. Or they should try to do so if I’m wrong about this. Occasionally FAC has been able to get Gail quoted in local and statewide news, and that’s been great.
Jacob, the Media Committee is currently working on a statewide project to educate media personnel and selected lawmakers. Our effort is not to condemn but to expose these folks to the truth about the ‘myths’ they have clung to for years and reported as facts. When this project is completed they can no longer claim ignorance of the subject. Any reporting or voting on false information will be purely intentional. Whether this project will produce the ‘fruit of the truth’ is yet to be known.
Just wishing every RSO and their families could be there for every hearing involving his case. As a side note, I found it extremely disturbing to see this guy lobbying on behalf of The Geo Group at a hearing a little while back. The guy was giving The Geo Group’s nod of approval to reduce the gain time from 80% to 60%. A bill that seemed to try to lessen time served EXCEPT for those considered sexual offenses. Reading the bill scared me for the simple fact that the wording seemed to make sexual based offenses higher degree felonies. Seeing him in favor of the bill on behalf of a private prison corporation turned my stomach.