Former lawmaker found guilty in drunk driving case
Source: Houston Chronicle
Former lawmaker found guilty in drunk driving case
By Brian M. Rosenthal
Updated 11:08 am, Tuesday, September 22, 2015
AUSTIN -- In the end, after three years of legal delays and three days of arguing, it took a Travis County less than two hours to decide to convict former state Rep. Jack Stick of driving drunk.
Stick, 49, who more recently gained notoriety when he resigned as a Texas Health and Human Services Commission lawyer amid a state contracting scandal last winter, took the news without flinching in a nearly-empty courtroom late Monday afternoon.
The punishment phase of the trial will occur separately, according to the judge.
Stick, a Republican who represented the Austin area in 2003 and 2004, was arrested in September 2012 and found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.096, above the legal limit of 0.08. At the time, he was serving as the second-in-command at the health commission's Office of Inspector General, which was responsible for rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the state's Medicaid program.
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Former state rep arrested for DWI
3:43 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 |
Former state Rep. Jack Stick, who currently serves as the deputy inspector general for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, was arrested last month on charges of driving while intoxicated.
Stick was arrested by the Austin Police Department on at 10:44 p.m. on Sept. 11 at 500 Campbell St.
“He notified his boss of the situation immediately and that he had taken a blood test,” said Stephanie Goodman, spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Commission. “At this time, we’re still awaiting those test results. Once we get the results, we’ll decide if any personnel action is necessary.”
Stick served as a Republican legislator from 2003 to 2005. He was also a Bee Cave municipal judge.
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/former-state-rep-arrested-for-dwi/nSgyz/
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Another DWI?
In Stick's DWI Case, Perry Critics See Double Standard
by Christine Ayala and Jay Root
Sept. 28, 2014
A top state official gets arrested for drunken driving in Austin and refuses breath and blood tests. Police cite erratic driving and uncooperative behavior, and critics say the official is unfit to serve in public office.
No, this is not the case of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democrat at the center of Gov. Rick Perry’s abuse-of-office indictment.
It's Republican Jack Stick, the top lawyer for the state’s sprawling health care agency, which was recently accused in a federal audit of failing to prevent millions of misspent dollars on medically unnecessary orthodontia.
Stick’s DWI case is scheduled for a pretrial hearing next week after two years of delay — all of it amid a virtual wall of silence from Perry on down.
More:
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/28/top-republicans-dwi-case-being-seen-softer-light/
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