DUI Charge For Illinois Senate President's Son

DUI Charge For Illinois Senate President’s Son

Our Chicago DUI Lawyers find it interesting that Illinois Senator Cullerton, one of the chief architects of an ill conceived drunk driving bill, was scrambling to explain what his son was doing in a State issued vehicle at midnight, allegedly drunk driving.

Senate president’s son accused of DUI in state car

April 19, 2010

BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter [email protected]

Illinois Senate President John Cullerton’s 26-year-old son faces a DUI charge after police stopped him Sunday while he was driving in downtown Chicago in his father’s state-issued car.

Garritt Cullerton had a blood-alcohol level of 0.188 –more than double the legal limit — when he was pulled over in the 800 block of North Dearborn shortly after midnight, Chicago Police spokesman Daniel O’Brien said.

John Cullerton was chief co-sponsor in the Senate of a 1997 push to lower the drunken driving, blood-alcohol threshold from .10 to .08, which remains in effect. He also pushed for a 2009 state law requiring all first-time DUI offenders to install breath-alcohol ignition interlocks on their vehicles before a court can grant driving privileges.

John Cullerton’s spokeswoman Rikeesha Phelon said the Illinois Senate president is disappointed that this incident occurred and takes this matter very seriously.

Actions speak louder than words. Since President Cullerton thought breath-alcohol ignition interlocks for all first time DUI offenders was a good enough idea to put into law, we would assume that he’ll be installing one on his son’s car ASAP. Our DUI Attorneys will be following this story closely.