(Click on the image for Scott MacFarlane's News4 report)
- Almost nobody goes to jail for drunk driving in Prince George's County despite causing injuries in many cases and regardless of whether they had prior DUI arrests.
- "I think the justice system did not take these (DUI) cases very seriously,” [State’s Attorney Aisha] Braveboy said.
- The state court system acknowledged Prince George’s County courts had for years used a “unique” system for adjudicating DUI/DWI cases, overseen primarily by a single judge. Several legal analysts and Braveboy said the system has offered predictable outcomes for defendants and was used to speed cases to completion. The Maryland court system said Prince George’s County courts recently ceased using the system.
- [C]ases reviewed by the I-Team, from spring 2017, shows tougher sentences for DUI cases along the Charles County stretch of Indian Head Highway. All five drivers charged with DUI on the highway in Charles County were sentenced to jail time or supervised release. According to publicly available court records, none of those charged in Prince George’s County are shown to have served sentences of jail time or supervised release during that span.
- Prince George’s has the second most number of DUI cases in Maryland, about 500 every month.