Career Advice

A conviction for drunken driving is rather unlikely to be a career boost to any practicing attorney. An advocate with the poor judgment -- or the irresistible compulsion -- to drink and then drive is unlikely to impress prospective clients as possessing the calm wisdom they no doubt seek in a lawyer.

Entirely understandable, then, that 59-year-old Jerry Stewart, an attorney in Benton, Arkansas, resolved to appeal his recent conviction for driving while drunk. He was already a one-time loser, having a prior conviction for same, and Jerry might have correctly divined that a second condemnation would do more than twice as much harm.

And one can imagine that, faced with so vital a court appearance, Jerry would be more than a little tense. On edge. Nervous.

And so Jerry Stewart is now in jail, for contempt of court, having gotten yet another rotten break, and turned up drunk in court. To represent himself. For his second drunken driving conviction.

We do not make this stuff up.

Story HERE.