Drunk and texting — the drunkeness tested at 0.22 — but what happened to the hit-and-run part of the story? That's what we were talking about right after the incident, which happened on December 27th.
Why did it take 2 weeks to come up with these charges? From the first link:
Andrew I. Alperstein, a former prosecutor who led Baltimore County's auto-manslaughter unit, said that if anything, charges were brought quickly in this case. He said it can take months for police and prosecutors to reconstruct an accident.
"This is actually extremely fast for the case to have been charged," said Alperstein, who is now a defense attorney.
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Why did it take 2 weeks to come up with these charges?
I remember many years ago, someone giving a speech talked about the reliability of broadcast television by asking when was the last time your TV station went off air due to technical difficulties and displayed the "please stand by"/test pattern.
Kind of reminds of the days when we heard of criminals getting off because of "technicalities". I think this is why.
Read the article. It mentions she is facing charges for leaving the scene as well.
Why did it take 2 weeks to come up with these charges? From the first link:
She lawyer-ed up.
With her title she can immediately take over the Episcopalin wing of the prison. Seriously, she may have time to read the Gospels and Paul's letter from prison.
Defendant Name: COOK, HEATHER ELIZABETH
Race: WHITE, CAUCASIAN, ASIATIC INDIAN, ARAB
Sex: FHeight:507Weight:250DOB:09/21/1956
How many drink would a 250 lb woman have to consume to blow .22 one hour after an accident?
If there were still many people attending Episcopal services, I would say this would have a bad effect but I don't know if there are enough to matter. Of course, this is Maryland and the Episcopal Church is a branch of the Democrat Party.
Why did it take 2 weeks to come up with these charges?
Ministers and other religious figures always get special treatment in our country. For further evidence just look at the sweet deal the Bishop in Sun Prairie got for his hit and run last spring.
It's a sad tragedy for everyone involved.
The irresponsibe actions of one person has brought calamity to two families.
It is a tragedy for the cyclist and his family. I don't see how anyone could refer to her irresponsible and reprehensible behavior as tragic.
It is a tragedy for the cyclist and his family. I don't see how anyone could refer to her irresponsible and reprehensible behavior as tragic.
Cook's previous case was not revealed to Episcopal clerics and lay delegates who in May elected her to the post of bishop suffragan, making her the first woman to reach the position in the diocese.
Looks like the local Episcopal Leadership slipped one over on its church level members. That won't help its legitimacy...
"Cook's previous case was not revealed to Episcopal clerics and lay delegates who in May elected her to the post of bishop suffragan, making her the first woman to reach the position in the diocese."
Nor did the clerics and delegates look very hard. It was a public record.
My guess is that they knew, or at least some of them. Chances are high that people have been covering for her for a long while.
"Cook's previous case was not revealed to Episcopal clerics and lay delegates who in May elected her to the post of bishop suffragan, making her the first woman to reach the position in the diocese."
Nor did the clerics and delegates look very hard. It was a public record.
There is a movement afoot in Maryland and D.C. and across the nation called "ban the box." Promoted by the progressive left, which is the cultural mindset that infests Maryland and the Episcopalian leadership, it is against asking about or looking into a person's prior criminal record during the hiring process.
Re: "ban the box"
The "box" here is the box on a job application that asks if you have prior criminal convictions.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming of drunk Catholic stereotypes!
Not just "ban the box" but the DOJ and EEOC, too:
An employer's use of an individual's criminal history in making employment decisions may, in some instances, violate the prohibition against employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended.
Protestantism. Not even once.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION!!!
Bring forth... THE MUSHY PEAS!!!
Bring forth... THE MUSHY DOCTRINES!!!
If he didn't want to get run over by an Episcopalian, he shouldn't have been in the middle of the road!
If she didn't have two spouses beheaded in order to marry someone else I say she's a step up over the church founder.
Uh huh.
Bet she never spends a day in jail.
She's from the liberal church. Like Gosnell's little clinic of horrors, there is an incentive to change the subject. Ironically, it will be a hit-and-run journolistic cycle. I wonder if this is why the Pope joined the consensus or flat-Earth society.
It's all girls at the top in the US Episcopalian Church right now, if you look at the story, girls who cover up for each other, the way clerics used to cover up for Bishop Weakland. You wonder what else these Episcopalian ladies are covering up.
The lesbian mafia.
Promoted by the progressive left, which is the cultural mindset that infests Maryland and the Episcopalian leadership, it is against asking about or looking into a person's prior criminal record during the hiring process.
There are so many bullshit "crimes" these days that I tend to agree with the left on this one. If we got rid of most of the felonies and returned to the days when only things like rape, theft, robbery, murder, etc, were illegal -- then I'd like to hear about it.
Why not leave that to employers to decide? Who are you to decide for them?
High-ranking leader? She's a Bishop is what she is. The actual head of the Diocese of Maryland. And as a female Bishop in the Episcopal Church she is the epitome of the leftist agenda. No wonder the media treads lightly. If she was a male leader of a conservative church you'd know every detail of his life by now, especially the unfavorable things - and if there weren't any unfavorable things they'd make them up.
Excuse me - she's a Suffragan Bishop in the Diocese. That means that she's an Assistant Bishop, if you will. She's not in direct charge of the Diocese, but she answers only to the Diocesean Bishop (the Ordinary, or what would be called in some denominations the Metropolitan) and has nearly equivalent spiritual authority.
Apparently she had a prior arrest for DUI that was known before her elevation to bishop - but they elevated her anyway because ... who knows? She became the Diocese's first female bishop. Maybe that was more important than "maybe someone who just had a DUI shouldn't be a bishop until they get their act together."
Two weeks is a very long time, she should have been caught and brought to the book much earlier. Incidents like these make people suspicious about the intentions of the authorities.
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