Former Clearwater judge arrested on drunken driving charge (He's back....)

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Nov. 26, 2004





Former Clearwater judge arrested on drunken driving charge

Associated Press


CLEARWATER, Fla. - A former Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Court judge who resigned earlier this year after being reprimanded for public drunkenness has been charged with drunken driving, officials said.

Charles W. Cope, 55, was arrested Wednesday night after a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy saw Cope driving his sport utility vehicle with one wheel on the center concrete median of a road west of U.S. 19 in Clearwater.

Breath tests showed Cope had a blood-alcohol level of 0.3 percent, more than three times the 0.08 percent threshold at which a motorist in Florida is presumed intoxicated, according to his arrest affidavit.
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Cope resigned from the bench Jan. 27, five months after he was verbally reprimanded by the Florida Supreme Court for public intoxication and inappropriate conduct of an intimate nature.

The reprimand followed an April 5, 2001 arrest in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., where Cope was accused of making advances on a vacationing Maryland woman while attending a judicial conference. The woman and her mother accused Cope of trying to get into their locked hotel room.
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Judge Cope

[Sideways]

1. Sanctimonious Drunken Gutter Snipe IOWs A Repuke

Fuctwittage asshat. These fuckers are reptiles.

[montana_hazeleyes]

2. Good gravy!

Most people would be near comatose at that blood alcohol level!

[UpInArms]

3. I would think that maintaining such

a comatose state would be imperative in the reptilian brain.

How else can one continue to breathe knowing how despicable and hippocritical one truly is?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. We used to have one of those.

He drank, in local bars, large tumblers of vodka with a splash of Coke, until he was English as a second language. Or third.

His behavior became increasingly bizarre and self-destructive. He continued to sit on the bench, where he was known as "The Hanging Judge".

He was finally found in an interstate rest area, passed out at the wheel of his car, with a passed-out young teenage boy in the back seat. The young worthy was as naked as the day he was born.

Said judge "retired". He now sells antiques.

[Soopercali]

5. Sober as a judge.

I used to date a judge, and I wish I'd known first that this saying is sarcastic. Because boy, he sure did drink!