It carries a maximum prison sentence of five years and can be lodged against any drunken driver who has two prior DUI convictions within the past 10 years. It was not clear on Friday why Everett was not charged that December with DUI, third offense.ĭUI, third offense, became a felony when state law was changed by the General Assembly in July 1999. Alberi, who sentenced Everett in Virginia Beach General District Court.īut Alberi suspended 11 months of the time and allowed Everett to serve the resulting monthlong sentence on weekends in the Virginia Beach City Jail. That last charge resulted in Everett getting the maximum jail penalty for second-offense-DUI – 12 months in jail, according Judge Albert D. In December 1999, he was charged again with DUI, second offense. Five years later, in May 1999, Everett was charged with DUI, second offense. This week’s DUI charge is the latest in a long list of serious driving infractions for Everett, stretching back to at least 1994.ĭuring the past eight years, Everett has been convicted multiple times for a variety of charges, including reckless driving and speeding.Įverett’s three DUI convictions in Virginia Beach started with a charge in 1994. “No matter how high it’s set, a person can still bond out,” Pennington said. She said they consider the length of time a defendant has lived in the area, family ties, any prior record and their likelihood to appear in court. “He’s been a magistrate for a while.”īy setting bonds, magistrates try to ensure that defendants show up in court, she said, noting they don’t determine guilt or innocence. “At this point, I have to trust the magistrate’s judgment,” she said. Pennington said she spoke with him briefly about the bond and intends to meet with him in the coming week. Citizens cornered him behind a carpet store until police arrived to arrest him.īullock could not be reached for comment.Ĭhief Magistrate Beth B. Witnesses said Everett climbed from the pickup’s rear window and ran. The impact crumpled their car and flipped the pickup on its side. Three weeks after his release, police contend, Everett drove a pickup through a red light at North Military Highway and Azalea Garden Road into the path of the Chambers brothers, who were traveling in a Honda Civic.
“Research has shown that your hardcore, repetitive drunk-driving offenders are the folks most “Our position is the criminal justice system’s paramount responsibility is to protect lives,” he said. Michael Goodove, an attorney and president of the Southside Chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said anyone charged with a third-offense DUI, a felony, should not be allowed to post a bond and be freed from custody. Everett posted bail through a bonding company at 4:57 a.m. set Everett’s bond at $1,000 at 3:16 a.m.
In addition to the third-offense DUI, Whiteside charged Everett with driving after his driving privileges had been suspended. “I asked if he had been drinking and he stated yes, 4 Mike’s Lemonades in an hour,” Whiteside wrote in papers filed in Norfolk General District Court.Ī Department of Motor Vehicles records check showed Everett’s three prior convictions for DUI, Whiteside noted, as well as three previous convictions for driving on a suspended license. Whiteside stopped him for driving recklessly at the wheel of a Jaguar. That’s when, court records say, Norfolk Officer W.E. And he was arrested for drunken driving most recently on April 14. He has three previous DUI convictions in Virginia Beach. Roy Lee Everett, 30, was charged Tuesday with running a red light, driving under the influence and 10 other violations in the crash that killed 16-year-old Landon Chambers and injured his brother, Barney.Įverett is being held without bail in the Norfolk City Jail.Įverett has been behind bars before. A man facing his seventh drunken-driving charge after the crash Tuesday that killed a high school student was charged with driving drunk three weeks ago, but regained his freedom within hours by posting a $1,000 bond.
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