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Area repeat offenders often avoid DWI convictions
P-D investigation shows prosecutors, judges often let drunks drive.
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Drunken weekend shows wide differences
Arrested eight times — one conviction
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Prosecutors let uncooperative DWI arrestees keep driving
Prosecutors often ignore Missouri's strict sanction.
The law says one thing. Prosecutors say another.
St. Louis' repeat drunken drivers often avoid DWI convictions
Drunken weekend shows wide differences
Different agencies, different levels of enforcement
Arrested eight times — one conviction
Man gets two plea deals with no convictions`
Police officer deals routinely with hassle of DWI arrests
dwi offenders
Repeat drunken drivers avoid felony DWI charges
Some chronic offenders get charged with misdemeanors or municipal ordinance violations — carrying little or no jail time.
The ways repeat drunken drivers avoid feloniy charges
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Court officials say treatment is key, but Missouri won't release data
Plea deals happen in Illinois, too, but state won't share data for analysis
Judges defend plea deals on DWI convictions
case studies
Donald Canterbery
A former truck driver and railroad employee, the ex-con drove drunk in at least five different states - and courts repeatedly treated him like a first-timer. The sixth case ended with him killing a St. Louis area couple and their unborn child.
Steven Castanedo
He's been arrested eight times for DWI but netted only one DWI conviction to his driving record - being cut deals before and after that case.
John Corner
Police clocked Corner at 110 mph for his third DWI, but authorities took 18 months to charge him with a felony — during which time he was arrested for five more DWIs.
Newton Keene
Convicted five times of DWI, Keene had already been to prison once when he was stopped for DWIs in 2006 and 2007. Both times, police mistakes kept him from going back to prison. His next stop came the night he plowed into a car, killing three people.
Norma Monsivais
Missouri law calls for three-time offenders to face felonies, but the registered nurse has been arrested seven times without being charged with a felony. That includes once when driving the wrong-way down an interstate, nearly colliding head-on with cars.
Mark Pabst
The former architect was arrested nine times in 17 months . That included a six-day stretch when he was arrested three times. He kept being released and drove drunk again. In all, court delays, legal stall tactics and plea deals kept him from being sent to prison until after his 10th arrest.
William Downs
Despite a history of drug abuse, he was given a special DWI plea deal that let him keep his license. Three weeks later, high on three drugs, he crashed into a pickup and killed a university professor.
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VIDEO: DWI Police officer arrests drunk drivers
Join Fareid "Fred" Yaakub, a 6-year veteran with the St. Louis County Police Department, as he searches for drunk drivers. "It's not worth it to get into a car accident, kill somebody, injure somebody, and get a DWI over a night of drinking," said Yaakub.
Most municipal courts rarely convict anyone for DWI
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How much can you drink without being too drunk to drive?
