Chronic DUI driver (8 arrests) gets two years in prison

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(10-31) 13:42 PDT San Mateo --

A man with seven prior drunk-driving convictions was sentenced to two years in state prison Friday for careening into a San Mateo parking lot while intoxicated and stumbling into a coffee shop - right into the path of two California Highway Patrol officers.

William Scott Simon, 42, of Belmont was promptly arrested by the officers in the January incident.

At a hearing Friday in Redwood City, Judge Joseph Scott of San Mateo County Superior Court sentenced Simon to two years in prison, taking into consideration previous DUI convictions spanning from 1986 to 2005. Simon pleaded no contest in July to felony drunk driving in the latest case.

The incident happened at about 7:15 a.m. Jan. 11 when Simon drove the wrong way into a parking lot at a shopping center on De Anza Boulevard, ignoring a "Do Not Enter" sign, said Karen Guidotti, a San Mateo County assistant district attorney.



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[CurtEastPoint]

1. My feeling is that if you get caught DUI one time, you have done it 10 times.

This guy is habitually drunk and does NOT need to have a driver's license... period.

[SoCalNative]

4. He'd just drive without it

if they took his license away.

They almost all do.

[depakid]

10. That's mandatory jail time in California

No matter what the reason for the suspension.

[underseasurveyor]

2. The guy obviously has little regard for life

The judge could have given him 20 years and it wouldn't have bothered me but I digress... I'm not the judge.

The guy, as far as I'm concerned, lost his privilege to ever have a drivers license or own a vehicle

[elocs]

3. This would be a pretty typical drunk driving story here in Wisconsin.

Sad. Here the Tavern League wields a lot of power.

[nini]

5. lock him up

No mercy for these assholes who put other's lives in jeopardy. He's a menance to society.

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. and throw away the key n/t

[marmar]

7. A serial idiot.....

nt

[G_j]

8. it's not a crime to be an alcoholic,

but it is a crime to endanger the lives of others.
I hope he gets treatment in prison.

[boppers]

9. I knew a guy like this, I met him when I got a DUI in AZ.

I was on my first and only one (so far), he was on his ninth.

He knew he was going to jail, I met him in therapy, which he was going to (even though it wasn't required), because he realized that his "second chances" had pretty much ended forever.