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UPDATE: Fox News is reporting today that Al Gore III faces up to three years in prison if convicted on felony drug-possession charges and lesser offenses related to the July 4 traffic stop described in the post below. According to People.com, he was found to be in possession of 140 Vicodin pills, among other items, at the time of his most-recent arrest.
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According to news reports, Al Gore III (below right) was arrested in San Diego this morning on charges of driving under the influence after being clocked at 100 miles per hour in his Toyota Prius hybrid. In addition to the DUI charge, the 24-year-old son of the former vice president faces charges related to possession of marijuana as well as several medications — including Xanax, Valium and Vicodin – without prescriptions.
Today’s arrest of Gore III marks his third such encounter with law enforcement in recent years and prompts this blogger to speculate as to whether or not California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” Law, approved by Golden State voters in 1994, will earn him a life sentence in prison.
What I lack now are details as to whether Gore III’s previous two arrests resulted in felony convictions. If they did, and if today’s arrest results in a felony conviction(s), Al Gore Jr. might be forced to run for president — and win — in 2008 in order to be able to grant his law-breaking offspring a presidential pardon.
Please let this blogger know if you have details of Gore III’s previous convictions — in particular, whether or not they were recorded as misdemeanors or felonies.
Stay tuned!
8 responses so far ↓
1 Doug Ragan // Jul 5, 2007 at 12:11 am
Smoking Gun has some details. It may be important to note that the other arrests were not in the state of California. I took a look at the law, and of course it is written in lawyer language.
If I am reading it right, the laws he broke previously would have to be considered felonies by the state of California for this to apply, and he would have to be convicted.
His other arrests were for possession in Maryland and endangerment in N. Carolina. He had pot in Maryland, and was driving twice the speed limit in NC.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/littlegore1.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/gorebust1.html
CNN has an article claiming that the pot charges led to a deal that clears him of any conviction. It also claims that the endangerment charges were dropped in the other case. No conviction means no strikes.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/gore.son.ap/index.html
Now I did find an old NewsMax article claiming that he was busted for DUI.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/mediain.htm
The article gives the impression that the story was buried. But the other CNN article does mention the DUI ticket, but does not say anything about a conviction.
So this seems to actually be his 4th arrest. But there is confirmation from CNN that two of them led to no conviction. If he was convicted of the DUI, it would only be one strike.
As entertaining as it would be, third strike doesn’t seem to apply here. It will be interesting to see how this plays out though given past arrests. To get the pot charges dropped, he had to agree to some ‘getting clean’ measures. It seems they didn’t work the first time.
2 hotoffthepress // Jul 5, 2007 at 9:08 am
Doug — Thanks for the info. — Bob
3 brand // Jul 6, 2007 at 6:20 am
a prius can go 100 mph?
4 hotoffthepress // Jul 6, 2007 at 7:18 am
Brand — That’s amazing, isn’t it? Thanks for posting. — Bob
5 Jessica // Jul 6, 2007 at 3:59 pm
My Prius goes 80 without any problems at all… 100 wouldn’t be an issue. It might take a while to get UP to 100 mpg, tho… I’ll bet he doesn’t get 50 MPG going that fast! You know Daddy bought him that car….
6 Blogger Offers ‘LIVE EARTH’ Review, Part Four « Bob McCarty Writes // Jul 7, 2007 at 8:10 pm
[...] He refused to rule out a possible run for the White House, again by directing attention to the fact to his “five-year campaign” talking point. [Note: I blogged about a probable Al Gore run for the White House and the reason behind it here.] [...]
7 Mona Chester // Jul 30, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I’m looking at the mug shot of Al Gore Jr. (III)
and he lools like the love child of Al Gore Sr. and Ted Kennedy.
8 hotoffthepress // Jul 30, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Mona — Only a DNA test could prove that tie! Thanks for posting! — Bob
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