Leyritz’s bail revoked

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Jay CT says:
February 13, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Good. Fuck him. He deserves to go to jail. Disgusting
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• Jamal G. says:

  February 13, 2009 at 11:54 pm

  Do you know the whole story?

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  • TheLastClown says:

    February 14, 2009 at 3:12 am

    Seriously. Even per the above linked article, the woman that got killed had a .18 BAC, .04 higher than Leyritz.

    Obviously I’m not condoning drunk driving or excusing Leyritz, but they both were too drunk to drive. I wonder, if Jim had been the one to die, would people be screaming about the irresponsible drunk driving bitch that killed a Yankee World Series hero?

    Perspective is everything.

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    • Jay CT says:

      February 14, 2009 at 10:17 am

      I personally don’t care what her blood level was. HE needs to take responsibilty for what he has done. I would be screaming about ANYONE who drunk drives, let alone kills someone when they drunk drive. I am a pretty openminded person, but this opinion of mine will not change. There is no excuse in my opinion, but you all could make all the excuses in the world. A case I am working on this week was a fatality in which a 6 month old was killed by having her father slam her head into the sheetrock so hard that it crushed the sheet-rock in a shape of her skull. The mothers excuse was she couldn’t leave the husband even though he was abusive because she was only a greeter at Walmart and only making 7 dollars an hour. Should we just let her go since she was in a tough spot?

      And if he was in recovery, he isn’t supposed to use cold medicine. Its against one of the stages of recovery.

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      • TheLastClown says:

        February 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm

        Jay, I appreciate the problems you see in your line of work. The story you describe is tragic indeed. But that one is a case for behavioral psychology.

        The Leyritz case is astronomically different. It has nothing to do with Leyritz being in a “tough spot.”. Im also not advocating “letting him go”

        The fact of the matter is that if she wasn’t drunk, maybe Leyritz doesn’t hit her, and it never happens. OR…if the timing was a few seconds different, people would be calling for this girls head for killing a Yankee.

        Im not condoning it, as I said, but the first comment in the thread was:

        “Good. Fuck him. He deserves to go to jail. Disgusting”

        And that was the comment to which I was responding. I was trying to bring some perspective.

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  • Artist formerly known as 'The' Steve says:

    February 14, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Yeah, its possible he had a cold and was taking Nyquil or something.

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pounder says:
February 14, 2009 at 9:19 am
What he did was terrible and a disgrace.He was once a good man,adopting kids,having his family along on all road trips,and,as I have personal knowledge of his visiting sick kids in the hospital,along with Mark Leiter.So,somewhere along the line,he lost his way and will now have to pay for it.Sad.
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Joseph M says:
February 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Tragic is the word. The most exciting thing Jim should have been doing right now is changing channels on his TV. He’s out on bail for Christ sakes, in a case like that, you have zero margin for error. The possibility of Jim doing hard time was pretty good going into this escapade, that possibility just increased.
Nothing as sad as watching someone throw their life away, Jim is well into the process of doing that.
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Leyritz, jailed Friday, now released | River Avenue Blues says:
February 18, 2009 at 3:30 pm
[...] As the Jim Leyritz Saga Turns. Last Friday, as you might remember, former Yankee Jim Leyritz was jailed for defying his pretrial sobriety mandate. The case’s prosecutors claim that The King attempted to drive his car with alcohol in his [...]
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