Walz’s attorney went on to say that the governor felt so bad about the incident that he offered to resign his teaching position at Alliance High School and all of his extracurricular activities. 13 when he totaled his county-issued vehicle late last year.
The University of Notre Dame says this level of intoxication can cause “significant impairment of motor coordination and loss of good judgment.”įor reference, Hennepin County Sheriff Dave Hutchinson allegedly had a BAC of. 10 or higher results in reduced reaction time and control, slurred speech, slower thinking and reasoning, and an inability to coordinate arms and legs. 08.Īccording to the American Addiction Centers, a BAC of. 10 but, like all states, has since been lowered to. 128” but described this as a “relatively low test.” At the time, the legal limit in Nebraska was. Harford further admitted that Walz had “a.
Walz had been - had been drinking, so I think there’s a sufficient factual basis, judge, to support the plea,” he continued. I don’t even know what was alleged in the complaint, it may have been 90 something. The speed was fairly excessive, judge, a lot over the speed limit. “Low and behold, it was a state patrolman that was behind him, so the faster he went, the faster the state patrol officer went. The officer didn’t turn on his red lights and he - and somebody came up real fast behind him and he didn’t know what they were doing, so he sped up to try to get away, fearing that somebody was after him,” Harford said. “The state patrol officer turned around and, this is a little, a little bit bizarre, but Mr. Walz’s attorney, Russell Harford, later acknowledged that Walz “had been drinking” but said he was driving away from the state trooper because he “thought somebody was chasing him.” 128 blood alcohol,” Nowlan said, according to a court transcript. When he was stopped, he was given a blood test which did show a.
I think that he eventually hit a speed of over 80, as I recall. Actually, he was driving away from the police officer. Walz was driving south of town on 385 in Dawes County at a high rate of speed. This means the results wouldn’t have been used as evidence against Walz had the case gone to trial, but they were still referenced during a Mahearing on the plea agreement.ĭuring that hearing, former Dawes County Attorney Rex Nowlan said that Walz had a blood alcohol concentration of. The results of the blood test were later suppressed, seemingly as a result of the trooper’s failure to realize Walz was deaf, according to the Post Bulletin article. “He couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him,” Walz’s campaign manager said at the time, noting his deafness caused “balance issues.” Neither the trooper’s report nor the court transcript reference the governor’s hearing issues. In one of the few available articles on the incident, Walz’s campaign manager told the Rochester Post Bulletin he was “not drunk” and “attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness,” an issue Walz said was caused by his time in the National Guard that has since been “surgically corrected.” The issue emerged during Walz’s successful 2006 campaign for Congress in Minnesota’s First District. He was initially charged with driving under the influence and speeding, but the charges were reduced to a lone count of reckless driving under the terms of a plea deal. He was then transported to Chadron Hospital for a blood test before being booked into the Dawes County Jail. Walz submitted to and failed both a field sobriety test and a preliminary breath test, according to the report. Walz breath and person,” says a Nebraska state trooper’s report on the incident. “A strong odor of alcoholic beverage was detected emitting from Mr. 23, 1995 for going 96 mph in a 55-mph zone. Walz was working as a teacher in Alliance, Neb., his home state, when he was pulled over Sept.
Tim Walz has said in past campaigns that he wasn’t actually drunk when he was pulled over for driving under the influence in 1995, but a court transcript from the case tells a different story.
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