TACOMA, Wash. -- A prominent drunk driving attorney got into a drunk driving injury crash only to have the vehicular assault charge dropped. That angered Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
DUI defense attorney Janiece Lacross now finds herself on the other side of the law. Last November she drove drunk with her three young children in the backseat. She hit a boy on his bike in Kitsap County, breaking his leg and sending him into the bushes.
But the vehicular assault charge against her was dropped and reduced to just a DUI, which brought Mothers Against Drunk Driving to court to find out why.
That was the way the proceeding started, with MADD being really mad.
MADD learned that Lacross voluntarily went into in-patient alcohol treatment and she even helped the young victim, Joseph Griffith, with his civil suit for personal injuries. The vehicular assault charge was dropped at the victim's request.
MADD is not so mad anymore.
Lacross pleaded guilty to DUI and three counts of reckless endangerment.
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