Saturday, January 26, 2008

Lawyer: Robinson's hit-and-run victim will have hard time making ends meet

The lawyer for Rep. Brad Robinson's hit-and-run victim, Donald Marler, says the severity of his client's injury will give him a hard time making ends meet.
The conflicting sides of the story, which finds Robinson, a Bonne Terre Democrat, charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident, are featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article:

Marler's lawyer, Phil Tatlow, said the impact fractured Marler's collar bone and multiple ribs and caused internal bleeding and the collapse of one lung.

"That's the condition he was in when they chose to leave," he said.

Marler spent days on a ventilator, Tatlow said, but is back at home now, able to walk with pain but unable to go back to work. Tatlow said he is a crew supervisor at a local limestone mining operation but doesn't have any disability benefits.

"He's going to have a hard time making ends meet," he said.

Tatlow said Marler was walking along the grassy shoulder of the road at the time he was hit. He said he didn't ask how much Marler had to drink and said it doesn't matter because he was off the roadway.

The Robinsons' attorney, James K. Carmichael, said that the couple were not drunk but that Marler was and admitted it to investigators.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like good old boy politics to me. Too many issues on the Robinsons side of this stink like yesterdays dead fish. They lie, they change seats, they leave the scene of an accident, they call in a 'friend' in LE instead of calling 9-11, their 'friend' in LE does not breathalize either one of them since the Robinsons 'said' they hadn't been drinking, and now the defense is of course going to try and say that DM was walking drunk 'in the road', should the prosecution try to get the Robinsons to fess up.

I know DM in a round about way. He deserves all the help he can get to heal up, pay his bills and eventually get back to work. The Robinsons on the other hand don't seem to want to do anything other than pray for DM. Sure hope they pray hard. If this happened just a couple of hours north of where it did, you'd be seeing Robinson in a set of orange and being handcuffed to and from the courthouse. As it should be, imho.