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The more you research the past of the lying leftist media morons the more you realize that these mental midgets see themselves above the law. For them laws were made for you and I, not them. If you think about it for a moment, that makes prefect sense. Ask yourself who literally gets away with murder in despotic societies. Why yes, it is those in power or with friends in power, not we the peasants. So with his holier (in a statist sense) than thou beliefs, Rick no doubt felt no need to stop when he ran his car into Jeffrey Smuzinick, so he didn’t. Yet today he actually has the nerve to be spewing his tripe over the airways. But wouldn’t that figure, at least for the coward and scofflaw, Slick Rick.

Here is Slick Rick’s real story from bartcop.com entitled “Rick Sanchez – DWI, Hit-and-Run criminal“:

It happened on Dec. 10, 1990. Mr. Sanchez, seriously drunk behind the wheel, with his dad as passenger, was leaving a Miami Dolphins game. He had barely left the stadium parking area before he hit a man who was running between cars, and who (unfortunately) was also drunk. Undoubtedly helped by invisible friends on the police force, Sanchez was not charged with causing the accident, but was later charged with (and pleaded no contest to) DUI.

But here’s the cowardly part: Sanchez initially left the scene of the accident for 2 full hours. One local report said he first went home to get his license and fell asleep. (Yeah, right.)

Anyway, by the time he meandered back to the scene and his dilly-dallying cop friends
tested him for alcohol, it was at least four hours after the accident. Even with all his friends helping him, Sanchez’s blood still registered .15 — way above the then-legal-limit of .10.

Closing chapter for victim: The Miami Herald, Nov. 2, 1995

“Jeffrey Smuzinick, who was left paralyzed after being struck by the car of Channel 7 anchor Rick Sanchez, died Monday in a Pennsylvania nursing home. He was 36. Smuzinick was injured Dec. 10, 1990, after he ran out into traffic following a Dolphins football game. He was struck by a 1991 Volvo driven by Sanchez. Smuzinick suffered severe head injuries and was in a coma for many months. He underwent rehabilitation in Florida …”

So, this A1-Miami-Coward is allowed to smear Gen. Wesley Clark on international television? PUHleeeeze.

Here are the headlines and snippets from the newspapers regarding Slick Rick. The last reference is really telling. Slick Rick had media access to shape public opinion and Jeffery had nothing. His actions at the scene of the accident to the police shows his concern for Jeffrey, “…eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.” Slick Rick, you are despicable.

MIAMI HERALD
February 12, 1991, Tuesday
TEST: SANCHEZ DROVE DRUNK
BYLINE: BY DON VAN NATTA JR

Blood tests reveal that WSVN-Channel 7 television news anchor Rick Sanchez’s blood level exceeded Florida intoxication levels when his car struck and critically injured Jeffrey Smuzinick in mid-December 1990; Sanchez insists test’s results are mistaken; Smuzinick remains in coma.

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MIAMI HERALD
February 16, 1991, Saturday
SANCHEZ CHARGED, WILL STAY ON AIR
BYLINE: BY DON VAN NATTA JR

Miami (Fla) WSVN-Channel 7 news anchor Rick Sanchez will maintain regular on-air work schedule, despite recent charge of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident; station says it ’stands behind him’; Sanchez declines comment.

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St. Petersburg Times
February 17, 1991
Anchorman charged with DUI
Associated Press

A Miami television anchorman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in a December accident in which police say he left the scene after hitting a man and returned later.

Rick Sanchez, anchor for WSVN, was charged Friday with one count of DUI, a first-degree misdemeanor in the Dec. 10 accident outside Joe Robbie Stadium, prosecutor Kathleen Hoague said.

If convicted, Sanchez faces a maximum of six months in prison and a $500 fine.
A blood test showed Sanchez had a blood-alcohol level that night of .15 percent. A person with a .10 level is considered legally drunk in Florida.

The man Sanchez hit was critically injured and remains in a coma at North Shore Hospital.

Ms. Hoague said Friday that she thinks Sanchez was driving drunk at the time of the accident, but prosecutors decided not to charge him with causing bodily injury while driving drunk, a third-degree felony.

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St Petersburg Times
Feb 17th 1991
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A Miami television anchorman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in a December accident in which police say he left the scene after hitting a man and returned later.

Rick Sanchez, anchor for WSVN, was charged Friday with one count of DUI, a first-degree misdemeanor in the Dec. 10 accident outside Joe Robbie Stadium, prosecutor Kathleen Hoague said.

If convicted, Sanchez faces a maximum of six months in prison and a $500 fine.

A blood test showed Sanchez had a blood-alcohol level that night of .15 percent. A person with a .10 level is considered legally drunk in Florida.

The man Sanchez hit was critically injured and remains in a coma at North Shore Hospital.

Ms. Hoague said Friday that she thinks Sanchez was driving drunk at the time of the accident, but prosecutors decided not to charge him with causing bodily injury while driving drunk, a third-degree felony.

“The victim came out of nowhere and walked right into his pathway,” she said. “Sanchez was not speeding and would not have been able to avoid the accident.”

After the accident, Sanchez, 32, drove home to retrieve his driver’s license and insurance card. {WHAT A CROCK! – While Jeffrey is lying in the street!}

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The Miami Herald
February 12, 1991, Page 1B
Source: DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer

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Television anchorman Rick Sanchez was driving drunk on the mid-December night his car struck and critically injured a man who darted into a road outside Joe Robbie Stadium, blood test results show. Sanchez had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent. In Florida, a driver with a blood alcohol level of 0.10 is considered intoxicated. “I’m totally, totally taken by surprise by this,” Sanchez, an anchorman for WSVN-Channel 7, said late Monday. “As

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The Miami Hearld
November 6, 1991, Page 1B
TV ANCHOR TO PLEAD NO CONTEST TO DUI
Source: DON VAN NATTA Jr. Herald Staff Writer

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Television anchorman Rick Sanchez will plead no contest Thursday to a drunk driving charge, saying he wants to avoid a DUI trial that his TV news competitors would turn into a “three-ring circus.” Sanchez, the 33-year-old, top-rated anchorman for WSVN- Channel 7, told The Herald Tuesday that he will enter the plea to avoid a jail sentence for driving while intoxicated on Dec. 10 after leaving Joe Robbie Stadium following a Miami Dolphins football game. That night,…

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Miami New Times News
August 7, 1991
By Sean Rowe
The Forgotten Man

Eight months after he got hit by Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez’s Volvo, Jeffrey Smuzinick is doing poorly. His family is just plain doing poor.

He was one of these guys you see on Friday afternoon at the 7-Eleven, stocking up on beer for the weekend, maybe buying some Lotto tickets, then piling into a battered van with his buddies and cranking up Zeta-4 on the radio.

It would be nice to say his skills as a carpenter were renowned at the swank enclaves of Williams Island and Turnberry Isle where he worked. In truth, the people who live in the houses he built never paid much attention to Jeffrey Smuzinick.

And these days they don’t even see him. A friend recalls that Smuzinick used to put down his hammer at midday and speed into town for legendary lunches -”a dozen oysters, ten chicken wings (hot), fish sandwich (plain), and an order of French fries.” Now, in a South Dade nursing home, the 32-year-old Pembroke Pines man is learning to drink pureed spaghetti through a straw.

Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident. Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said “smelled strongly of alcohol,” first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez’s sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image.

Best known for his stint as a sometimes-melodramatic correspondent on Channel 7’s “Crime Check,” Sanchez continues his work on the station’s evening and late newscasts while awaiting a September 13 court date on misdemeanor drunk-driving charges. Though the results of one test show the newsman’s blood-alcohol level was .15 -slightly over the legal .10 limit – the test was performed after Sanchez left the scene of the accident. In January Sanchez told New Times he had consumed no alcohol the night of the accident. His attorney, Richard Essen, now says the anchorman returned home and had “a couple of drinks to calm his nerves” before returning to the scene. Essen doubts that Sanchez’s DUI charge will ever come to trial. “I think the results of the blood tests will be thrown out,” the lawyer says. “If the results of the blood tests are suppressed, then there is no evidence against him at all. The state cannot proceed.”

Meanwhile, after two months in a coma, Smuzinick has regained consciousness and is making slow improvement. His right side remains largely paralyzed due to massive brain damage, but he can move his left arm and leg and sometimes hold his head upright. Using hand signals, he can answer yes or no to simple questions. Doctors last Friday removed a feeding tube from his trachea, and Smuzinick can now eat liquid foods. He has indicated that he hopes he can soon move from HealthSouth Regional Rehabilitation Center in Cutler Ridge to the town house in Pembroke Pines he purchased and finished remodeling shortly before the accident.

“The first eighteen months after an accident like this are crucial,” says Dr. Kenneth Fischer, a neurologist who treated Smuzinick at North Shore Hospital until March 21. “Whether or not he will improve further is hard to say. It’s very unlikely he will ever be able to function independently or converse spontaneously.”

Though Smuzinick’s health insurance policy covers most of his medical costs, it doesn’t pay for rehabilitative care. Family members say unpaid bills for physical therapy now total about $81,000. To save money, they have removed Smuzinick from the clinic’s head-injury program. Using videotapes to learn therapy techniques, friends, relatives, and former co-workers have begun to provide a semblance of the rehabilitation program they can’t afford.

One friend of the family, Kelli Crist, has distributed flyers describing the accident involving Smuzinick and Sanchez. The flyers list Crist’s phone number (680-2741) and request donations to help pay for treatment and therapy. So far the fund-raising effort has not gone well.

“Nobody seems to be interested,” Crist says. “We must have passed out 5000 flyers in Miami alone. Yours was the first phone call I’ve received.”

Smuzinick’s fiancee, Jackie Stringhill, says it’s just as well that Sanchez hasn’t paid a visit to Smuzinick since the accident. “I guess his attitude bothers a lot of people. But we have enough to think about. We have our hands full. We don’t really talk about the accident much any more. Anyway,” she adds resignedly, “as far as Sanchez goes, what goes around comes around.

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