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SALINE CO.—One of the area’s most notorious figures has entered a plea in his 2010 DUI case.
“Crazy” Jim Watson, 68, scheduled for a jury trial to begin today in his June 2010 Driving Under the Influence of alcohol case, instead entered a plea.
The DUI was merely a Class A misdemeanor, and court records show Jimbo didn’t blow (ALWAYS recommended) which suspended his license for 6 months automatically (preferable to having a DUI on your record if such a thing did occur), but his attorney, Bryan Drew, managed to get the case to languish for three and a half years (long after the summary suspension was over) and end it, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The case was finalized earlier today by new Assistant State’s Attorney Jayson Clark.
Crazy Jim was set for sentencing on February 27, 2014.