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Henry Ruggs Was Driving 156 Mph, Had Double Legal BAC Before Deadly Crash: Prosecutor
New York Post ^ | 11/3 | Jenna Lemoncelli

Posted on 11/03/2021 11:39:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Henry Ruggs III was driving his Corvette 156 miles per hour seconds before allegedly causing a fiery car crash Tuesday that left a 23-year-old woman dead, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Eric Bauman said in court Wednesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Ruggs, the former Raiders receiver who was cut by the team Tuesday night and is facing felony DUI charges, also had a blood alcohol content of .161, Bauman said, according to the Las Vegas Sun. That is more than twice the state’s legal limit of .08.

Bauman said the speed of Ruggs’ vehicle was 127 mph when the airbags were deployed, and that a dog was killed in the crash.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 11/03/2021 11:39:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I guess there will not be any Henry Ruggs IV


2 posted on 11/03/2021 11:41:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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White man was keeping him down.


3 posted on 11/03/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Those new Corvettes are definitely fast.


4 posted on 11/03/2021 11:42:06 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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I hope he enjoys prison. Maybe he and Alex Baldwin can share a cell?


5 posted on 11/03/2021 11:42:55 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles., )
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Suicide?

Probably spent every dollar he made as a pro football player, and saw no future.


6 posted on 11/03/2021 11:43:45 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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facing felony DUI charges

Is that the most serious charge? Someone died.

7 posted on 11/03/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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So sorry, I misread it. I thought Ruggs died.

1st degree Manslaughter.
HE is going to be spending some time in the Nevada House of Corrections.


8 posted on 11/03/2021 11:44:56 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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I guess there will not be any Henry Ruggs IV

Don't count on it. Didn't Assange have two kids while he was 'isolating' at the embassy?

9 posted on 11/03/2021 11:44:58 AM PDT by ladyjane
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A DUI death conviction in Nevada has a sentence of 2-20 years. A reckless driving conviction has a sentence of 1-6 years. 26 years is not enough to make up for the death of the 23 year-old woman, but it had better be that and not some reduced 2-3 year sentence.


10 posted on 11/03/2021 11:45:53 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/fatal-dui-drivers-in-nevada-will-no-longer-face-murder-charges/article_0bcc858a-f7e3-11ea-aa45-87f13e3a2c0b.html?fbclid=IwAR1HPYIi1endKZQvFtGtMdaTEgPYr491cvjex-Uzkkt4gNF-bX3vpkKetcE From September 2020:

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- The Nevada Supreme Court ruled fatal DUI drivers will no longer face second degree murder charges.

The most severe charge that can be brought against deadly DUI drivers is felony DUI causing death, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Those facing second-degree murder charges would serve at least 10 years before being eligible for parole.

“We can still charge felony DUI death which is two to 20 years in prison, and the person, if convicted, will go to prison but not for as long as if they were convicted of second degree murder,” said Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson.

11 posted on 11/03/2021 11:45:55 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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Obviously, he was a runaway slave from the NFL’s plantation.


12 posted on 11/03/2021 11:46:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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That probably is the only “current” charge. Enough to hold him on.
Other charges will follow after the investigation.


13 posted on 11/03/2021 11:46:24 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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It won’t be settled until the judge delivers his sentence.

Depending on how much money there is for bribery, he could get off with probation.


14 posted on 11/03/2021 11:46:35 AM PDT by dsc (Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.)
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Ruggs, the former Raiders receiver who was cut by the team Tuesday night

According to Kaepernick, that means he is finally free from the bondage of the NFL! Free at last!

15 posted on 11/03/2021 11:47:18 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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If someone purposefully stalks and murders someone else and is caught, by law they get the highest level of punishment. If someone gets drunk and runs someone over they gat a far lower sentence. Yet who is more likely to reoffend? The guy who murdered the man who sold his daughter into slavery? Or some drunken NFLer?

I’d say Ruggs is far more dangerous to society than the father.


16 posted on 11/03/2021 11:51:00 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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DUI drivers should be shot on sight.

Let them bleed out and their friends, if they have any can retrieve the body.


17 posted on 11/03/2021 11:51:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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facing felony DUI charges Is that the most serious charge? Someone died.

Could be many years in jail.

18 posted on 11/03/2021 11:52:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)


19 posted on 11/03/2021 11:57:47 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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*I guess there will not be any Henry Ruggs IV*

That means there must be a Henry Ruggs 1 + a Henry Ruggs ll. That means he should know who his daddy is. Isn’t that structure designed to keep things like that from happening?


20 posted on 11/03/2021 11:58:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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