Texas Judge Pleaded to Cop Not to Arrest Her for Alleged DUI, “It’ll ruin my life”

On Saturday night police in McAllen, Texas,
pulled over Nora Longoria, an elected appeals court judge.
According to police, an officer pulled her over after seeing her
Lexus going 69 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone. The
officer’s police report says Longoria appeared to be drunk and
showed him a badge to tell him she was a judge. He says she failed
a field sobriety test when he tried to arrest her and admitted to
drinking five beers in the evening but not in the last three
hours.

The Valley Morning Star
reports:

When the officers told her that she was under arrest, Longoria
became distraught and said, “Please let me go home. I live a couple
of miles away … you are going to ruin my life. I worked hard for 25
years to be where I am today,” the court document states.

During the exchange of words, Longoria refused to let the
officers place the handcuffs on her and told the officers that they
would have to drag her to the patrol car. The police officers and
the sergeant told the judge that if she kept refusing their orders
they would charge her with resisting arrest, at which point she let
them place the handcuffs in front of her and they took her to the
police station where she refused to take a breathalyzer, court
records show.

Longoria was released on her own recognizance the next morning,
charged with a misdemeanor. Longoria might consider reading the
case
to abolish drunk driving laws. Then again, she probably has an
election to win again at some point.