No DUI charge apparently. The consequences will be minor, right or not.
Nothing good happens when you're at the strip club after midnight. And nothing good happens when you drink your BAC above about .12 (could definitely argue lower than that).
But up til 11:30pm, it's a magical place to be.**
There may be some financial consequences. If there is evidence that they were racing, I'm guessing that is going to subject him for liability for any passenger killed. Even if the deceased player agreed to engage in racing or encouraged it, can't imagine there is going to be evidence of it, unless Carter testifies that they all agreed to race before they left, which is going to hammer him if it's not successful at cutting off the suit all together.
Georgia's cap is $50k property damage, $500k single person injury/death, $700k more than one injury/death. And, unlike Mississippi, there is no waiver of sovereign immunity cap up to limit of private insurance coverage maintained by the political sub. The caps are hard and fast regardless of private liability insurance limits.
I don't know, not a lawyer, but I would think liability rests alone with the other driver. He didn't make her race or drive drunk. She chose it.
Schmuley can probably say for certain, but I believe if they were acting in concert in a reckless/dangerous activity like street racing, they are joint tortfeasors with full joint and several liability, even if only one car actually caused damage. If it had been a non-passenger that was injured, I think he'd be at huge risk. With it being a passenger, I'd guess it will come down to the question of whether the passenger knowingly assumed the risk of street racing by getting into the car, or whether the racing was a surprise to him. Which of course, there likely isn't anybody that can weigh in on that issue except for possibly Carter himself, unless the dead passenger was talking to people about racing when they left, which seems unlikely.
Ok, but I think it also matters if the passenger knowingly got In a car with a drunk driver. Gotta be assumed that a drunk driver will make poor decisions, like racing.
My grandmother told my teenage *** "only thing open after midnight is Taco Bell and legs. And both will create all kinds of bad ****"
Not a lawyer, but I suspect if you were racing and someone in the other car died in the crash, you've probably got some liability there, at least civically and probably criminally as well. Supposedly, all he's facing right now is misdemeanor charges, and I agree he will get a slap on the wrist and some NFL team will draft him in an early round.
Cop in Hburg got arrested for something similar. But can't remember the ruling. Little different situation though.
And believe me, this stuff matters to NFL scouts in spite of what some like to say. For example, let’s ask the Tennessee Titans if they’re interested in repeating the Isaiah Wilson disaster this year
