Poster ChildShe was too drunk to step out of her car without bracing herself on the door, told arresting officers “This is fucking ridiculous, don’t you have rapists to take off the street?” and said she didn’t want no stinkin’ public defender to represent her. She hired a powerful Eastside law firm and after they went judge shopping, her case wound up in front of a jurist who quickly threw out her .14 breath reading in front of a prosecutor who didn’t realize it had happened (and when the prosecutor later asked county District Court Judge Peter Nault if the attorneys hadn’t gotten the reading tossed, he seemingly misled her, answering “Don’t worry, no one’s gonna play that game with us.”) She got a little more help from other fellow county employees in the prosecutor’s office when she was charged under another name, allowing her arrest to go unnoticed for months while she filed for re-election.So what happened? Yesterday, King County council member Jane Hague — Miss Jane Springman as she was known in court — got her DUI charges dropped to reckless driving if she meets a series of conditions. A prosecutor said the penalty was “appropriate” and Hague was treated “very much the same as anyone else.” Hague, now safely re-ensconced in office, said she wants to be some sort of “poster child to make sure this doesn’t happen again” and called it a “tremendous learning experience.” Well, what did we learn from that, kiddies?
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