Judge's daughter sues driver she ran into during crash when she was DUI

[Are_grits_groceries]

Convicted last year of intoxication manslaughter for the death of her boyfriend, the 21-year-old daughter of a state district judge is suing the truck driver she ran into during a drunken driving crash.

Elizabeth Shelton, the daughter of juvenile judge Pat Shelton, is accusing truck driver Lance Bennett of negligence in the Oct. 23, 2007, wreck that killed her boyfriend Matthew McNiece.

Shelton had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit, two tests showed. She was sentenced to eight years' probation and had to serve four months in jail.

Shelton, her family and the family of the boyfriend who was killed are suing for $20,000 for the destruction of the Lexus SUV she was driving and an undetermined amount for mental anguish, pain and suffering.

Bennett was driving the box truck that Shelton rear-ended on the Southwest Freeway near Kirby around 2 a.m.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6170554.html

Oy vey!!

[Donnachaidh]

1. a drunken arrogant brat caused the death of one person

and is suing the other party because SHE crashed her Lexus?

[DS1]

2. fucking snowflakes

[derby378]

3. I hope the judge laughs her out of court...

...and disbars the attorney who agreed to take this piece-of-shit excuse for a case.

[PM Martin]

4. "Oye Vey" is right.

Mr. Sandoval should have his license pulled for this stunt.
Mr. Bennett should file a counter suit against this little brat/parasite.

[supernova]

5. Daughter of the judge who is trying to sue cleaners for pants?

[wtmusic]

6. Love this comment

"What a waste of time and money. I want to sue her for wasting 3 mins to read this story--thats time Ill never get back and it's her fault."

:rofl:

[valerief]

7. She's why the world hates Americans. What a useless POS. nt

[RB TexLa]

8. Proportional responsibility. Of course a person can be responsible for an accident if they are not

drunk. Sure, she seems mostly responsible but if the other driver is partially responsible he or she has to accept responsibility. This is what the courts are for, I don't see why everyone is degrading this person for the lawsuit. I can see her attitude during her arrest was bad, but the lawsuit is standard stuff.

[wtmusic]

11. Standard stuff.

Standard stuff which, if it is frivolous (and it has every appearance of being so) costs the truck driver and his company a lot of time, money, and frustration.

[atreides1]

9. It's Texas

Where the arrogance of some people is even bigger then the state itself.

[atreides1]

10. It's Texas

Where the arrogance of some people is even bigger then the state itself.

[frylock]

12. i rarely condone violence..

and certainly never against a woman, but someone needs to beat some fucking sense into this GDI.