Roswell Fleeing and Attempting to Elude: Reduced to Reckless Driving

Our client was clocked doing 92 in a 65 mph zone on Georgia 400 south by Roswell Police.  The Roswell police officer attempted to catch up to our client to initiate a traffic stop.  Our client took a quick turn onto a side street and ran through a stop sign while the officer was pursuing him with his emergency equipment on.  Client eventually stopped and was placed in an investigatory detention and charged with speeding, fleeing and attempting to elude, and reckless driving.  Fleeing and attempting to elude carries a very harsh statutory mandatory minimum penalty of 10 days in jail.  Mr. Sullivan was able to convince the prosecutor in Roswell that this particular case did not warrant the prosecutor pursuing the fleeing and attempting to elude charge or the speeding charge (a 4 point offense) and negotiated a plea to only the reckless driving charge, avoiding jail time for our client.