Redskins Player Serves Day In Jail Springs Arrested For Reckless Driving
POSTED: 12:08 pm EST February 3, 2006 UPDATED: 3:05 pm EST February 3, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- A Washington Redskins player was released from jail Wednesday after serving a sentence for reckless driving, authorities said.
Virginia State Police stopped Shawn Springs in September for speeding on the Dulles Greenway. Police said Springs, in a 2003 Mercedes, was driving 98 mph in a 65 mph zone.
Springs was arrested, fined $500 and charged with reckless driving. He told the state trooper he was late for work, police said.
Springs was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 29 suspended. He served his day in jail at the Loudoun County Detention Center on Tuesday. His driver's license was suspended for six months.
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Ok, one of the best Redskin Players saying they are late to work. Thats tough to believe. You'd have to be living under a rock to not know that the Skins are our of it. Even to be in another city they would know that.
Redskins Player Serves Day In Jail Springs Arrested For Reckless Driving
Virginia State Police stopped Shawn Springs in September for speeding on the Dulles Greenway. Police said Springs, in a 2003 Mercedes, was driving 98 mph in a 65 mph zone.
C'mom people read. When arrested it was football season!!
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Redskins Player Serves Day In Jail Springs Arrested For Reckless Driving
Virginia State Police stopped Shawn Springs in September for speeding on the Dulles Greenway. Police said Springs, in a 2003 Mercedes, was driving 98 mph in a 65 mph zone.
C'mom people read. When arrested it was football season!!
Thank you, someone else knows how to read the entire article.
I'm pretty sure that if you're caught going over 85 or if you're more than a certain amount over the posted limit it's mandatory jail time and a suspended locense. Of course, this may vary by state. I'm pretty sure that in NC it's 85 though.
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Speeding? Man I speed every day. Lucky for me I have not been caught. The one time my Bro was pulled over for speeding in excess of 100mph in a 65 zone (we were late for golf ), the CHP gave him a warning and only wrote the ticket for 85mph.
Redskins Player Serves Day In Jail Springs Arrested For Reckless Driving
Virginia State Police stopped Shawn Springs in September for speeding on the Dulles Greenway. Police said Springs, in a 2003 Mercedes, was driving 98 mph in a 65 mph zone.
C'mom people read. When arrested it was football season!!
Dang. I read the whole thing and still missed it.
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As many of you know by now, I believe the key to understanding any criminal law matter is to first examine the applicable statutes. In the Shawn Springs case, they are as follows:
§ 46.2-862. Exceeding speed limit.
A person shall be guilty of reckless driving who drives a motor vehicle on the highways in the Commonwealth (i) at a speed of twenty miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limit where the applicable speed limit is thirty miles per hour or less, (ii) at a speed of sixty miles per hour or more where the applicable maximum speed limit is thirty-five miles per hour, (iii) at a speed of twenty miles per hour or more in excess of the applicable maximum speed limits where the applicable maximum speed limit is forty miles per hour or more, or (iv) in excess of eighty miles per hour regardless of the applicable maximum speed limit.
§ 46.2-868. Reckless driving; penalties.
A. Every person convicted of reckless driving under the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
§ 46.2-392. Suspension of license or issuance of a restricted license on conviction of reckless or aggressive driving; probationary conditions required; generally.
In addition to the penalties for reckless driving prescribed in § 46.2-868 and the penalties for aggressive driving prescribed in § 46.2-868.1, the court may suspend the driver's license issued to a person convicted of reckless driving or aggressive driving for a period of not less than 10 days nor more than six months and the court shall require the convicted person to surrender his license so suspended to the court where it will be disposed of in accordance with § 46.2-398.
In Virginia, a Class 1 misdemeanor penalty for violations is confinement in jail for not more than 12 months and/or a fine of not more than $2,500.
According to the case details of Case No. GT05035985-00 (Commonwealth of VA v. Shawn Aaron Springs), Shawn was arrested on 09/02/05 and charged with Reckless Driving (98/65), code section 46.2-862, a class 1 misdemeanor. His attorney continued the case from 12/02/05 to 12/08/05 and then again to 01/19/06 where he enterd a plea of guilty. He paid a fine of $500.00 and court costs of $91.00 on 01/30/06. He was sentencd to 30 days but 29 of those days were suspended. His license was also suspended for 6 months.
The key to understanding this case is that in Virginia, if it can be proved by the D.A. that you drove over the speed limit by an amount specified in the reckless driving statute, you are guilty of not just speeding,a summary traffic offense, but reckless driving, a misdemeanor. As the maximum penalty for reckless driving can be up to 1 year in jail plus $2500.00 fine, a 30 day sentence with 29 days suspended and a $500.00 fine is a pretty good plea result.
Shawn's attorney must not have had a valid defense to the charge. The explanation that Shawn apparently gave to the officer of being late for work was not helpful to his attorney in getting Shawn the best possible result. As anything that a potential defendant says to a police officer can and will be used against him, the best thing that a potential defendant can do is say "I want to speak to my attorney," and then nothing else. Police officers are trained to elicit responses that will be used against the potential defendant later. No doubt the officer asked Shawn, "Why are you going so fast?" or something of the like. Shawn fell into his trap and responded with a statement that could be used as an admission.
The bottom line for Redskins fans is that the adjudication of this case will not affect Shawn's employment as a defensive back in any way. I'm sure that he will have many volunteers to drive him to practice.
Well, thank God he was only doing 85mph. Nothing dangerous.
I could understand it though if Tom Coughlin was his coach.
But seriously now, do you guys really have stretches of road over there where you can actually reach more than 80mph? Wow, I really must think about emigrating.
A while back, we had a police officer over here, who was caught doing 159mph (not chasing anybody at the time). He was acquitted, having argued that he was "familiarising himself" with the operation of his new patrol car. He now faces a retrial, following the public outcry over the fact that this is not generally considered a satisfactory defence for someone out driving in the country in their nice new Aston Martin/Ford/Peugeot/Toyota.
2580 thehogs.net registered users. 1707 views of thread "Redskins safety faces up to 46 years in jail." But BossHog, if you would prefer 'several' to 'many', feel free to edit my post as such.
LawHog wrote:2580 thehogs.net registered users. 1707 views of thread "Redskins safety faces up to 46 years in jail." But BossHog, if you would prefer 'several' to 'many', feel free to edit my post as such.
Doesn't mean that every veiwer of the Taylor thread has viewed this one, 604 have viewed it as of this post so saying several or many might be incorrect also. Some of 600+ viewers of this thread have viewed it more than onse. Some how veiwed the Taylor thread has viewed any of you 3 post to date. "As some of you" or "As a few of you" seems to be more fitting. But we aren't editors around here.
), the CHP gave him a warning and only wrote the ticket for 85mph.
He could probably offer some insight.
