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Mon Jul 13, 2009 at 08:30 PM CDT
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| Some may remember back to a month ago when former Travis County District Attorney candidate Mindy Montford was charged for Public Intoxication which resulted in this awesome booking shot. There was indeed some controversy about the extend that the charge was motivated by the officer given that Montford may have simply been assisting the driver in advising them of their rights which was a separate charge.
Well, a month later and the PI charge against Montford is being dropped for lack of evidence. Montford is lobbing the ball back at the arresting officer.
Austin American-Statesman: Montford, 38, said she is filing a complaint at the police monitor's office today against the officer who arrested her, Corp. Darryl Fulbright. She said he arrested her in retaliation for advising a friend he didn't have to take a breathalyzer test. "It was an abuse of power," she said.
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McNelis has said that the driver of a car in which Montford was a passenger hit a pipe in an alley and was pulled over. The driver got out of the car and a police officer requested that he take tests for drunken driving. The driver looked back at the car and said he wanted to ask Montford for help, McNelis said.
McNelis said Montford got out of the car at that time to "advise her friend of his rights."
He said an officer ordered Montford back into the car, where she sat for about 20 minutes, and then came back to the car and arrested her, as well as another passenger, on public intoxication charges. McNelis said that no further investigation was done before the arrest. |
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