{"id":18139,"date":"2013-08-13T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2013-08-13T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:49:21","slug":"stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=18139","title":{"rendered":"Stop Me If You&#8217;ve Heard This One Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/austin\/travis-county-prosecutor-charged-with-dwi\">&#8220;Travis County prosecutor charged with DWI.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A prosecutor with the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office was charged with driving while intoxicated after being involved in a traffic wreck over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest warrant affidavit released Monday, Brandon Grunewald, 33, was in a collision Sunday afternoon on the southbound MoPac Boulevard service road near Barton Skyway, Grunewald was driving a 2008 Land Rover. The other driver was in a Mini Cooper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what did his boss have to say?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grunewald&#8217;s boss, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said she is reviewing his case<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a first offense DWI and I don&#8217;t know what will happen until I have all the facts,&#8221; explained Lehmberg. &#8220;I have never terminated an employee for a first offense DWI and we have had employees with first offense DWI up and down the ranks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve worked anywhere where &#8220;people up and down the chain of command&#8221; had &#8220;first-time&#8221; DWIs. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Mr. Grunewald was not reported to have stamped his feet and implored the police to &#8220;Call Greg!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjsamuelson.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/12\/deja-vu-all-over-again-travis-county-prosecutor-dwi\/\">Blue Dot Blues<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Travis County prosecutor charged with DWI.&#8221; A prosecutor with the Travis County District Attorney&#8217;s Office was charged with driving while intoxicated after being involved in a traffic wreck over the weekend. According to an arrest warrant affidavit released Monday, Brandon Grunewald, 33, was in a collision Sunday afternoon on the southbound MoPac Boulevard service road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102,12],"tags":[2859,2023,2872,1908,1907,2861,683],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-crime","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-brandon-grunewald","tag-crime","tag-dwi","tag-rosemary-lehmberg","tag-texas","tag-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18161,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}