Our Chicago DUI Lawyers continually are amazed at the double standard when it comes to DUI arrests.  Check out the following story from Orange County, California.

DUI For Orange County Deputy

Kimberly Edds, Staff Writer – Orange County Register

An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy found himself on the other side of the jail bars Monday after he crashed into a Toyota in Laguna Niguel, sending the car and the elderly couple inside on a collision course with a tree.

Deputy Allan James Waters was driving under the influence when he crashed his 2008 Mercedes, according to a California Highway Patrol report.

And The Watchdog has learned that it wasn’t the first crash of the day for Deputy Waters, a 13-year veteran of the force who was already on paid administrative leave — for what, the sheriff’s office isn’t saying.

Just 33 minutes before and less than a mile and a half away on Golden Lantern, sheriff’s deputies were called to a wreck outside of Dana Point City Hall between Waters’ Mercedes and a Lexus. Deputies took a traffic report, Assistant Sheriff Mike James confirmed. Then the drivers were sent on their way.

Minutes later, Waters crashed again, the California Highway Patrol investigated, and this time Waters was sent to the county jail, accused of driving under the influence.

Wait a minute.  This deputy was stopped just half an hour prior to the second crash he had – where he was arrested for DUI – and no one noticed that he was DUI at the first crash?  Think that regular members of the public would have gotten that break?

The hypocrisy continues.