A man from Weatherford, Texas, received a life sentence from a jury after he was convicted of driving while intoxicated for the ninth time.
According to Fox News, Christopher Stanford pleaded guilty to felony DWI and chose to allow a jury of his peers from Parker County, Texas, to decide what punishment fit the crime.
An investigation found that in August 2022, Stanford went through a red light and rear-ended another vehicle. After the crash, Stanford got out of his vehicle, told the other driver that he had to go because he was going to be in trouble, then proceeded to run away.
The 50-year-old was seen jumping over a barbed-wire fence that ripped his jeans and shirt and was also accused of trying to head-butt an EMT who was attempting to treat him for his injuries.
The district attorney said that the man’s blood alcohol level was a reported 0.267 at the time of the incident, more than three times the legal limit of 0.08.
Four of Stanford’s eight previous DWIs included prison sentences in Tarrant, Dallas, and Rockwall Counties in Texas, according to the Parker County District Attorney’s Office. The Parker County Sheriff’s Office jail search shows that Stanford has been booked for jail in 2003, 2018, 2019, and 2022.
“His record showed that he was going to continue endangering communities throughout the Metroplex unless he was locked up,” Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swaine said in a release.
The DA also noted that Stanford testified that he didn’t believe that he had a problem with alcohol, but rather he was “very unlucky.”
Amazingly, a different Weatherford, Texas, man was sentenced to life in prison in 2016 after a tenth DWI conviction. That man’s blood alcohol level was a startling 0.3.
The man, who was 62 years old at the time, had served time in prison in both Texas and Colorado, with DWI incidents dating back to 1977.
That same summer of 2016, a Houston, Texas, man also received life in prison for driving drunk nine times since 1980.
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