Mr. Smith, who had several convictions for speeding and reckless driving, pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor charge of driving to endanger in a plea deal that included a six-month suspended sentence and the suspension of his driver's license.
Previous driver convictions for speeding, driving while intoxicated (DWI), or total moving violations within the last 3 years were not associated with rear-seated passenger mortality (p > 0.05).
New York Department of Motor Vehicle records show that he has one conviction for speeding in Brooklyn in 1997.
Meppen-Walter had one previous conviction for speeding - again doing 56mph in a 30mph zone.
In addition, several local factors may influence convictions for DWI, speeding, or other moving traffic violations, including enforcement rigor and legal dispositions.
When he was once asked, do you have any convictions, he quipped back, 'Yes, one, for speeding, a long time ago.' We don't know anything about what a Johnsonian government would be like, so all we have to go on is his personality and character.
As the program spread, more local arrests resulted in immigration holds, and illegal immigrants who did not have criminal convictions found themselves facing deportation because of tickets for speeding, burned-out tail lights or driving without a license.
Twenty other states joined Maryland's appeal of a 4-to-3 ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals overturning the conviction of Joseph J. Pringle, a passenger in a car that was stopped for speeding.
Chris Huhne Long, long before that conviction and those speeding points, before even his stint as a Secretary of State, or his bid for the Liberal Democrat leadership, loyal readers will recall a very different Chris Huhne.
Public records for a Charles A. McCoy Jr. with the same age and physical description show 12 traffic convictions in the last decade, mainly for speeding but also for driving while intoxicated.
For Mr. Huhne, with three previous speeding convictions in the year before the 2003 episode, the penalty points would have brought a driving ban.
