[Magdalen] Bishop Cook

[Jay Weigel]

As I have said before, my biggest problem with this is with the bishop
leaving the scene. I have a major thing about hit-and-run drivers. That is
all.

Jay, retiring from this conversation

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> For more on this story than Episcopal Café or ENS offers, the NY Times is
> helpful, and fills in many details:
>
> The case has attracted attention and generated questions about fairness in
> a high-crime city with a reputation for aggressive law enforcement tactics.
> The police declined to arrest Bishop Cook immediately or to reveal more
> than the most basic details of the accident.
>
> “If one of my clients, who are mostly African-American men, hit Palermo,
> charges would have been immediately filed against them,” wrote Todd H.
> Oppenheim, a lawyer in the Office of the Public Defender, on the news
> website baltimorebrew.com.
>
> Read it All at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/baltimore-bishop-
> charged-in-hit-and-run-case.html
>
> "Cook's father, like her, had a history of alcohol abuse. In 1977, the
> Rev. Halsey Cook told the Old St. Paul's congregation in a sermon that he
> was an alcoholic suffering a relapse and seeking treatment, calling
> alcoholism "a rampant epidemic in our society" and a "fatal disease, not
> only of the body but of the mind and spirit," according to an article that
> year in The Baltimore Sun.
>
> Heather Cook, too, has had repeated problems with alcohol. In 2010, Cook
> was charged with drunken driving on Maryland's Eastern Shore after
> registering a blood alcohol content of .27 percent. Police found wine,
> liquor and marijuana in her car. The drug charges were dropped after Cook
> pleaded guilty to the drunken driving offense, and she received probation."
>
> Also see:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/09/us/ap-us-
> bicyclist-killed-bishop.html
>
> Jim Guthrie
>