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DA's DUI Case Dismissed
July 08, 2004
When Municipal Judge William Ishee tossed out the DUI charge against Rankin/Madison District Attorney David Clark on a technicality Tuesday, he brought an abrupt end to a case that began with a December fender-bender and grew to involve more than a dozen possible witnesses, a visiting judge and a cost of more than $10,000 to the city.
Ishee, a visiting judge from Starkville, ruled that James King, the police dispatcher who took the arresting officers' sworn affidavits, didn't have the authority to do so.
"I'm happy for David. It was not a surprise," said Mitchel Creel of Greenville, one of Clark's attorneys. "We'd anticipated problems with the affidavit."
Special prosecutor John Dawson of Gulfport said the outcome was "unexpected."
