Circuit Judge Lynn Rosenthal, who was arrested for DUI on Tuesday morning in the driveway to the judge's parking lot after smashing into a cop car, is the third Broward County judge to be busted for DUI since November
Judges Rosenthal and Gisele Pollack showed up for court all juiced up. I’d probably get drunk too if I had to listen to a bunch of lying attorneys arguing with each other every day.
FLORIDA JUDGE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DUI AFTER SMASHING HER BMW INTO A POLICE CAR ON THE WAY TO COURT
By Paul Thompson
Mail Online
May 28, 2014
A Florida judge was arrested on suspicion of DUI after smashing into a police patrol car at a courthouse as she arrived for work.
Judge Lynn Rosenthal is also alleged to have repeatedly hit the gate of the judges' parking lot with her BMW car and collided with a concrete median on her way to work.
Deputies at Broward County courthouse arrested Rosenthal at 8.45am.
She is the third judge from the county to face DUI charges.
Rosenthal is alleged to have admitted taking an Ambien pill on Monday night.
Deputies said she did not appear to have been drinking.
Rosenthal, 56, asked the Broward County Sheriff's office not to release her booking photo as she was a sitting judge.
She was booked into the main jail on one count of driving under the influence and one count of driving under the influence and causing property damage, according to jail records.
She was released on a $1,500 bond late Tuesday.
According to an arrest report, Rosenthal struck the parked patrol car with the passenger side of her BMW SUV, then continued toward the security gate of the judges' parking lot.
She struck the gate, put her vehicle in reverse, then struck the gate several more times before a deputy at the scene stopped her, according to the report.
Although she was described as unsteady on her feet and was speaking with a slurred voice, deputies said they did not smell alcohol.
Rosenthal volunteered that she had been involved in another crash before she reached the parking lot, according to the report.
She told deputies a truck attempted to run her off the road on Interstate
595 and that she had captured the incident on a cell phone video.
Although she was described as unsteady on her feet and was speaking with a slurred voice, deputies said they did not smell alcohol.
The deputy reviewed the video and determined that there was no truck trying to run her off the road. 'The video did display that [Rosenthal] was unable to maintain a single lane, drove in the breakdown lane and failed to avoid a collision with a concrete wall,' wrote the deputy, Michael Wiley.
Rosenthal submitted to a breath test but declined to give a blood or urine sample to test for the presence of drugs in her system. She failed a field sobriety test.
Rosenthal is the third Broward judge arrested for DUI in the past six months.
Broward Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato, 57, has a pending DUI case resulting from a November 2013 incident in Boca Raton.
And on Friday, Broward County Judge Gisele Pollack was suspended from the bench pending an inquiry over allegations that she took the bench while intoxicated.
Pollack, 56, was arrested May 1 after a car crash in Plantation. Another driver was injured and Pollack was charged with four counts of DUI and failure to use due care.
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