{"id":2120,"date":"2005-04-02T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:52:57","slug":"2120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/2120\/","title":{"rendered":"But He Still Killed Susan Gutweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the sound of it, the case against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/777A3FA8CC5681E886256FD7000C4730?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Leonard Little<\/a> was a little weak:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, the only defense witness that Rosenblum called was Ladue police Officer Keneth Andreski, who was Stork&#8217;s backup when Little was arrested and was standing five feet from the defendant when Little was given the sobriety tests.<\/p>\n<p>Stork had testified that Little was windmilling his arms and unable to stand on one foot. Andreski said he didn&#8217;t recall seeing Little swinging his arms or holding them outward like airplane wings to keep his balance.<\/p>\n<p>Andreski said he didn&#8217;t recall seeing Little swaying or using the Mercedes for support, as Stork had told the jury.<\/p>\n<p>Also testifying Friday was Sgt. Darin McClure. Under questioning by prosecutor Mark Bishop, McClure said he administered a breath test at the arrest scene on a portable machine and it showed that Little had been drinking. McClure said also he smelled alcohol on Little&#8217;s breath.<\/p>\n<p>Under Rosenblum&#8217;s questioning, McClure said Little wasn&#8217;t stumbling, swaying, losing his balance or smelling of alcohol at the Ladue police station, where he was taken 18 minutes after the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing in this case is consistent with intoxication,&#8221; Rosenblum said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s the flipside of fame and the law&#8217;s engagement with you.  On the first offense, you leave a mother dead and get a slap on the wrist; from there on out, every cop who pulls you over will try to railroad you for DUI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the sound of it, the case against Leonard Little was a little weak: On Friday, the only defense witness that Rosenblum called was Ladue police Officer Keneth Andreski, who was Stork&#8217;s backup when Little was arrested and was standing five feet from the defendant when Little was given the sobriety tests. Stork had testified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20343,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/20343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}