Deerfield-News.com-Deerfield Beach, FL-This is a subject close to my heart. At age 22, my car broke down on I-95. I was waiting for a tow truck on the back of my car when a drunk driver entered 95 and drove on the shoulder like it was a lane. He smashed the car I was sitting on at over 60 miles per hour. My life was changed in an instant.
For those folks who hate trial lawyers and talk crap about them, I want you to understand that seeking damages in a court of law is pretty much the only thing the injured person can do. Hopefully, you will never need a good personal injury trial lawyer, but if you do, you may then change your anti-trial lawyer feelings. Thank god for Trial Lawyers and the contingency fee system, which allows the injured to hire some great attorneys. Before Morgan and Morgan, we had local firms like Cohen and Cohen, Krupnick and Campbell, and J. Jay Simons and Shelly Schlesinger back in the day, representing the seriously injured.
The Tort Feasor in my case was a Deerfield Beach school teacher. I remember attending his traffic court with J.Jay Simons and Danny Simons, and he got a fine. I got a lifetime without being able to run again, a limp, and a compound comminuted nonunion fracture to my tibia and fibula, hematomas, stitches, which took over 3 years to heal.
This is not Tigers first rodeo with driving while impaired. He should know better and apparently has not learned anything.
I can only hope Florida State Attorneys will not cut him any breaks; he deserves the full punishment allowed under the statute, which, WITH HIS 2017 DUI, should be jail time. In 2017, Woods had Xanax/Vicodin, Ambien, THC, and Dilaudid, an extremely strong pain reliever that is basically synthetic heroin. Dilaudid these days is not given out willy-nilly; you have to have some very serious medical issue with severe pain to get this medicine. If he is not buying these drugs on the street, someone should be questioning his doctors for prescribing these medications to him.
