Like You and Me, Only No Better?
For years, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser routinely dismissed traffic tickets of celebrities. Now, that bastard’s going to jail, under house arrest, and the celebrities he helped are facing criminal investigations far more serious than the ones he dismissed.
UPDATE: Apparently, according to two commenters he may NOT be going to jail. Too bad. At least he won’t be a judge anymore.
LATE UPDATE (10/19/04): Reader Hugh McManus reports that Danser has had another brush with the law, this time for DUI, where the cops drove him home rather than press charges. Nice. Maybe he is above the law, after all.
July 27th, 2004 at 9:05 pm
I wouldn’t have any problem with a judge “routinely dismissing” tickets, providing …
It’s one thing for officers to ticket drivers for violating code involving any reasonable hazard to persons or property, but to ticket a person simply to fulfill a ticket quota or to generate revenue when no reasonable hazard has occurred, only generates contempt (and rightly so) from the driving public for traffic law enforcement.
July 27th, 2004 at 9:09 pm
No, no, no… Judge Danser avoided jail. He was convicted of a felony yes, but his sentence is 90 days home detention and four hundred hours community service.
July 27th, 2004 at 9:22 pm
Darn. Nanuk just took all the fun out of that for me…
July 28th, 2004 at 3:21 am
There is still hope. Seems Judge Danser’s spouse is also a Superior Court Judge in Santa Clara county. If she ever gets awarded a felony, she could go to straight to jail. That would at least keep it in the family.
October 19th, 2004 at 6:14 am
The Mercury News had an article about Danser getting drunk in a bar in Los Gatos about 3 weeks ago, stopped driving away, cops were called, cops drove him home instead of taking him to jail, Still above the Law?