Lawsuits against Scott Gragson could seek $468M, attorneys say

[TexasTowelie]

Civil lawsuits against a prominent real estate broker charged in a fatal DUI wreck could be worth nearly half a billion dollars, lawyers told a judge Tuesday.

Scott Gragson is accused of crashing his Range Rover in the upscale Summerlin community of The Ridges last month, killing Melissa Newton, a mother of three, and injuring three others.

Christopher Bentley, a real estate executive who suffered brain damage and is being treated in Colorado, according to his lawyer, William Kemp, sued Gragson earlier this month.

Another attorney, Robert Eglet, told District Judge Rob Bare on Tuesday that he represents Newton and the two other victims in the crash, Greg Tassi and Christie Cobbett. Eglet told a reporter after the court hearing that companion lawsuits to Bentley’s were “imminent,” without offering a specific date.

Read more: https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/lawsuits-against-scott-gragson-could-seek-468m-attorneys-say-1695065/

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Well, I guess if you are rich and you kill and permanently injure rich people while drunk driving

then you are held to account not so much if you kill a poor person.

"In 1989, her (Alice Walton) vehicle struck and killed a woman who was walking in traffic on Arkansas 265 in the state's northwest. Walton was not cited and police said she wasn't at fault in the accident." ....she wasn't at fault???? What did the now dead poor woman commit suicide?????

"Alice Walton, the billionaire daughter of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, has had a 2011 arrest in Texas for suspected drunken driving cleared from her record after prosecutors declined to press formal charges."

AND she got the poor guy who gave her a DUI ticket fired.

"Tom Vinger, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the trooper who arrested Walton was suspended in March for alleged misconduct and hadn't returned to duty, and was thus unavailable to testify in Walton's case."

Capitalism turning justice into a commodity just ask Clarence Thomas and Brett.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-billionaire-alice-walton-gets-dwi-arrest-expunged-2013-12