Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Tiger Woods claims no alcohol involved in DUI, JUST prescription drugs!
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Probable for Tiger Woods arrested in Jupiter, Florida. Officers approached
- 0:09Speaker 1: this car just after to a m Monday night to
- 0:12Speaker 1: find Tiger asleep behind the wheel. Year old charged with
- 0:17Speaker 1: driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He told
- 0:20Speaker 1: police he didn't know where he was. His speech, the
- 0:23Speaker 1: report says what it was extremely slow and slurred. This
- 0:27Speaker 1: is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A police report says
- 0:30Speaker 1: that there was no alcohol in his system at the time.
- 0:34Speaker 1: With his arrest, he was given a breathalyzer test and
- 0:36Speaker 1: blew a point zero zero zero. However, Woods did tell
- 0:40Speaker 1: police he took prescription medications. This just the latest blow
- 0:45Speaker 1: for the professional golfer struggling to get his career back
- 0:48Speaker 1: on track. I'm trying everything, access to Bill to get
- 0:50Speaker 1: back and play. I know that the mind is sharp, um,
- 0:54Speaker 1: I just need to get the body willing to do it.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Many of us have cheered for Tiger Woods to make
- 1:01Speaker 1: a comeback, to come back to the spotlight, be the
- 1:06Speaker 1: focus of the sports world. Again, this is not exactly
- 1:11Speaker 1: what we had in mind. I mean it, see Grace,
- 1:14Speaker 1: this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 1:18Speaker 1: The only peak we have of Tiger Woods is life
- 1:22Speaker 1: now looks hellish. By now we have all seen his
- 1:28Speaker 1: mug shot where he looks puffy, balding and just playing
- 1:34Speaker 1: out worn out. There are claims he was d u I.
- 1:39Speaker 1: In the last hours, he has released a statement saying,
- 1:41Speaker 1: oh no, he was not, that that was a an
- 1:44Speaker 1: unexpected reaction to a mix of prescription drugs. Well, we'll
- 1:49Speaker 1: find out the truth very soon. Long story short, Tiger
- 1:54Speaker 1: Woods golfing great has been pulled over with yet another
- 1:59Speaker 1: incident allegedly involving drugs and or alcohol. Now, as yourself,
- 2:06Speaker 1: when the day is done and the dust settles, what
- 2:09Speaker 1: do you remember about Tiger Woods? Okay, fourteen championships, he
- 2:16Speaker 1: second only to Jack Nicholas, seventy nine career PGA Tour victories,
- 2:21Speaker 1: second only to Sam Snead, one hundred and forty two
- 2:26Speaker 1: consecutive cuts over seven years, second to no one. I
- 2:34Speaker 1: can't even count the millions and millions of dollars of
- 2:38Speaker 1: indorsements he's made with Nike, Rolex, Cadillac. Or will you
- 2:47Speaker 1: remember this smug shot? Or will you remember the two
- 2:52Speaker 1: thousand nine Thanksgiving Nights sex scandal When somebody I'm not
- 2:59Speaker 1: pointing the thing you're at his then wife beat in
- 3:03Speaker 1: the window of his car after it was revealed a
- 3:07Speaker 1: string of infidelities, from everything to waffle house waitresses to
- 3:17Speaker 1: various people he had met on the p G A
- 3:20Speaker 1: tour with me right now, of course, Alan the Duke,
- 3:25Speaker 1: Duke and Preston Halliburton, d U I lawyer. Let me
- 3:29Speaker 1: first go to you, Preston, thank you for being with
- 3:32Speaker 1: us on your way to court. Well, mat you did
- 3:35Speaker 1: describe him as a great athlete. What we remember I
- 3:38Speaker 1: remember him as alleging. I still want to remember him
- 3:40Speaker 1: as a leegtion. But what you described to me as
- 3:41Speaker 1: a human Humans make mistakes, so I don't know whether
- 3:45Speaker 1: or not what type of mistake you made in this situation.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Is a little bit concerning Nancy, some of the comments
- 3:50Speaker 1: he's made that he's apologizing, saying that he's never gonna
- 3:53Speaker 1: let this happen again. Well, yeah, I do on one level.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Preston with me, d U I expert. Preston Halliburton. I
- 4:00Speaker 1: agree on one level, and that level is the legal angle,
- 4:04Speaker 1: because when you say I'll never let this happen again,
- 4:07Speaker 1: that's tantamount to saying, Okay, I did it. Hands up
- 4:10Speaker 1: in the air. But with him, Hey, he's probably not
- 4:15Speaker 1: going to go to jail on a d UI. Okay, uh,
- 4:19Speaker 1: just that's the harsh reality of it. But he's gonna
- 4:23Speaker 1: possibly lose millions and millions, I'm talking forty million dollars
- 4:29Speaker 1: of endorsements. So to appease the public and his fans,
- 4:34Speaker 1: maybe that's why he gave the statement. And I think
- 4:37Speaker 1: the real question here, Nancy, is given the type of
- 4:39Speaker 1: the UI, it was allegedly it's involving lawfully prescribed medication.
- 4:44Speaker 1: That's a phenomenon that's going on in this country where
- 4:47Speaker 1: you have young kids taken out of all maybe having
- 4:50Speaker 1: one drink, having an unforeseen reaction, or an elderly person
- 4:54Speaker 1: which I often see, which is lawfully prescribed medication. So
- 4:58Speaker 1: the defense needs the nexus of the offense would sent
- 5:00Speaker 1: around an individual who has had three back surgeries taking
- 5:04Speaker 1: on a lawfully prescribed medicine, having an unforeseen or abnormal
- 5:09Speaker 1: response to a lawfully prescribed medicine. It could happen to anyway.
- 5:13Speaker 1: The problem, Nancy, as you know as well as I do,
- 5:15Speaker 1: when you get in front of a jury, if it
- 5:16Speaker 1: would ever go that far, given the overwhelming knowledge and
- 5:20Speaker 1: the medical community now and the warnings that doctors give
- 5:24Speaker 1: their patients before describing that medication types of medication, pain medication.
- 5:29Speaker 1: It would be hard for it would be a hard
- 5:31Speaker 1: sell for a criminal offense attorney to say this was unforeseen.
- 5:34Speaker 1: But oftentimes right on the label it will say recommended
- 5:38Speaker 1: not to operate heavy machinery, or do not drive at all,
- 5:42Speaker 1: or do not mix alcohol at all. Well, here's the
- 5:46Speaker 1: here's the um. Let me just say the fly in
- 5:50Speaker 1: the ointment that one of the officers said it smelled
- 5:54Speaker 1: like alcohol in the car. It smelled like alcohol. That
- 6:00Speaker 1: always know that they're gonna smell alcohol, But that's not
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- 7:32Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, Alan and Preston, this is the
- 7:36Speaker 1: time I think we should hope for the best for
- 7:38Speaker 1: Tiger woodstot help drag him down. On the other hand,
- 7:43Speaker 1: everybody saw him go through this horrible, horrible lapse of
- 7:49Speaker 1: judgment with repeated infidelities. And this goes to prove to
- 7:55Speaker 1: you two guys. You know, men cheat down. They cheat
- 7:59Speaker 1: they down. I was just just I'm just telling you
- 8:02Speaker 1: to they cheat down. He had this beautiful, l you say, Nordegren,
- 8:08Speaker 1: And was his wife just absolutely beautiful, had stood by
- 8:12Speaker 1: him for years and years and years, had the two
- 8:14Speaker 1: children with him, a boy and a girl. And what
- 8:16Speaker 1: did he do? Cheating with everything that walked in front
- 8:21Speaker 1: of his face. He couldn't stop. Now, of course, some
- 8:25Speaker 1: guys will say, oh, I have sex addiction. You know what,
- 8:28Speaker 1: save it, don't don't know. Don't even go there. I
- 8:32Speaker 1: don't want to hear those two words out of either
- 8:34Speaker 1: one of your mouth. We're all made differently, and we
- 8:36Speaker 1: do all have sins, we all have our own infirmities.
- 8:39Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, great, fine, Yes, each little snowflake is different,
- 8:44Speaker 1: I understand, Preston. So each little snowflakes usually don't cheat
- 8:49Speaker 1: on their wives. And gigantic and to a gigantic skill,
- 8:53Speaker 1: and that was added into the crash he had Thanksgiving
- 8:58Speaker 1: night two thousand nine. Everybody was rooting for him then
- 9:02Speaker 1: to work things out and come through because he's a
- 9:04Speaker 1: success story. I mean, Alan, the Duke Duke. One of
- 9:09Speaker 1: the things I have talked about before um many times
- 9:14Speaker 1: is his example. Remember at the end of every golf match,
- 9:18Speaker 1: his father would go out and meet him, his father
- 9:21Speaker 1: who helped make him great, and then when his father
- 9:24Speaker 1: passed away and he would be walking that last round,
- 9:28Speaker 1: I would always imagine his dad meeting him in spirit.
- 9:34Speaker 1: I mean, I wanted tiger Woods and want Tiger Woods
- 9:37Speaker 1: to do well, but this is this is bad. A
- 9:41Speaker 1: lot of people look up to him and it ain't
- 9:44Speaker 1: the first time people. In the end, I predict this
- 9:46Speaker 1: will be a very small snapshot literally snapshot mob shot
- 9:50Speaker 1: in his life. I think, uh, I think he'll do
- 9:53Speaker 1: fine hiring a prescription type of attorney that defends these
- 9:57Speaker 1: type of cases, and I predict you'll do just fine,
- 10:00Speaker 1: will come back. This is too many judges, too many.
- 10:03Speaker 1: President Bush had a d u I Dick Cheney had
- 10:06Speaker 1: two of them. So I think we're really really having
- 10:09Speaker 1: a draconian reaction. I don't know that I really want
- 10:12Speaker 1: to be in that pot to stew along with Chaney
- 10:15Speaker 1: and Bush. But okay, go ahead. Here's the thing. It's like,
- 10:19Speaker 1: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame
- 10:23Speaker 1: on me. We've already been through this with him. Okay,
- 10:26Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I can't give the image of him and
- 10:28Speaker 1: that wages in the back of the waffle house parking
- 10:30Speaker 1: lot out of my head. But Alan, how much money
- 10:34Speaker 1: is he set to lose? I know Nike won't dump him.
- 10:37Speaker 1: I mean because everybody represents Nike, no matter how many convictions,
- 10:42Speaker 1: no matter you know, it doesn't matter to Nike. But
- 10:44Speaker 1: other advertisers make here like Cadillac, a Rolex. Well, with Nike,
- 10:50Speaker 1: it's just do it, so they're okay with all of that.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I guess. But yeah, it could be tens of millions
- 10:56Speaker 1: of dollars. I mean, don't have any thug represent Nike.
- 11:00Speaker 1: What what dear? It could be tens of millions of dollars.
- 11:03Speaker 1: But actually, in November of two thousand and nine, when
- 11:07Speaker 1: he crashed that Cadillac near his home in Florida and
- 11:11Speaker 1: he was attacked, I guess his car was attacked by
- 11:13Speaker 1: his angry soon to be ex wife person. He claimed
- 11:19Speaker 1: then that he not he was under the effects of ambient.
- 11:23Speaker 1: We really need to dig into that. I don't think
- 11:25Speaker 1: that ambient can account for everything, but I forgot, yes
- 11:28Speaker 1: he did. I don't think everything can be blamed on ambient.
- 11:32Speaker 1: But dam a man, you know I will tell you
- 11:35Speaker 1: this though, guys, hold on, I do have this to
- 11:38Speaker 1: add in and I mean again, this is his second
- 11:41Speaker 1: go around with me, so I'm not as inclined to
- 11:43Speaker 1: believe that. And we're going to get the blood test.
- 11:45Speaker 1: I assume he had to undergo a blood test, but
- 11:48Speaker 1: the booking records indicate he did take a blood test.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I had a very dear friend, Preston, very dear, a
- 11:56Speaker 1: woman that prosecuted with me for years. She her specialty,
- 12:01Speaker 1: which I would have, you know, shot my foot if
- 12:03Speaker 1: I had to do. It was child support recovery, which
- 12:08Speaker 1: basically go after deadbeat dads, and I applaud that, but
- 12:10Speaker 1: I wanted to be in court and get you know,
- 12:13Speaker 1: violent felons behind bars. She was awesome, had a boy
- 12:18Speaker 1: and a girl, and she was having dental surgery and
- 12:23Speaker 1: she took something the dentists have prescribed for her, unknowing
- 12:28Speaker 1: that she was taking I don't know, sleeping pills or
- 12:33Speaker 1: ambient or something like that, and the mix of the two.
- 12:38Speaker 1: She went to sleep that night, she never woke up.
- 12:42Speaker 1: It can happen, It can happen, and it did happen
- 12:47Speaker 1: to her, And to this day, I think about her
- 12:50Speaker 1: all the time. Their children have grown up without a mom.
- 12:54Speaker 1: That's it can happen. So I'm I know it can happen.
- 12:58Speaker 1: But I'm not ruling this out because here I'm not
- 13:01Speaker 1: ruling out booze because a the cop smelled it be.
- 13:05Speaker 1: They said Tiger was was arrogant and was basically an
- 13:10Speaker 1: a hole. And see, he's got a track record. So
- 13:14Speaker 1: when you don't know a horse, look at his track record. People,
- 13:18Speaker 1: Am I crazy or what? It's a natural inclination. But
- 13:21Speaker 1: obviously you know, it's still not illegal for him to
- 13:24Speaker 1: have a lawfully prescribed medicine and have an adult beverage.
- 13:27Speaker 1: It doesn't make him a left safe driver as the issue,
- 13:30Speaker 1: and that's an officer's decision. You're relying on someone with
- 13:33Speaker 1: very little intro level training at a police academ Nancy, Oh,
- 13:37Speaker 1: please don't even I mean he's on the dash cam
- 13:41Speaker 1: and that's gonna you know, we'll see that. I can't
- 13:44Speaker 1: believe you're coming down on the cop. Preston. The cop
- 13:47Speaker 1: might be very well trained. I don't know enough. But
- 13:49Speaker 1: you did mention blood. Now that'll be the truth serum. Now,
- 13:52Speaker 1: was it a volunteer test or was there a search warrant?
- 13:55Speaker 1: Now if he voluntarily wanted his blood to prove his innocence,
- 13:58Speaker 1: that was big volumes and then we would have to
- 14:00Speaker 1: bring in a pharmacologist and a toxicologist to refute the
- 14:03Speaker 1: exact levels of that medication. Can we talk just for
- 14:06Speaker 1: a second about his current sponsors. I know he's got
- 14:10Speaker 1: a twenty million dollar a year deal with Nike Golf
- 14:15Speaker 1: and they signed him up back in nineteen and he
- 14:20Speaker 1: has become synonymous with Nike Golf for now twenty one
- 14:24Speaker 1: years now. On a last day charge, he was wearing
- 14:29Speaker 1: a red sweatshirt with Nike on it. You know, that's
- 14:34Speaker 1: what he would always wear red. At the end. There's
- 14:38Speaker 1: Bridgestone Golf. That's two million dollars a year. Who else
- 14:43Speaker 1: does he represent? Yeah, you're right, Rolex. He's with Upper Deck,
- 14:49Speaker 1: which is a sports card collectible firm. Hero Motor Group
- 14:55Speaker 1: eight million dollars a year. That's an Indian motorbike maker. Wow,
- 15:00Speaker 1: I didn't even know what that was. Hero Motor Group.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Kowa that's a Japanese pharmaceutical firm that may not look
- 15:08Speaker 1: too good right now to be rapping a pharmaceutical firm.
- 15:12Speaker 1: And Taylor Made golf that uses he uses their golf
- 15:17Speaker 1: clubs and he's signed with them in two thousand and seventeen.
- 15:20Speaker 1: I don't know how he can use their golf clubs
- 15:22Speaker 1: when he represents Nike Golf. But I guess that's not
- 15:25Speaker 1: Nike golf. Where. What about the girlfriend? What about that
- 15:30Speaker 1: alan she finds out while she's out shopping. She breaks
- 15:33Speaker 1: out in tears, blurts out, I knew it, I knew it.
- 15:37Speaker 1: I don't know what it was that she knew. But
- 15:40Speaker 1: then she spent five thousand dollars after she finds out
- 15:44Speaker 1: and then leaves. I'm wondering why at ten o'clock in
- 15:47Speaker 1: the morning on Memorial Days she's out shopping. Allen, you
- 15:50Speaker 1: know how much I hate to shop. I'd rather be
- 15:53Speaker 1: beat with a stick than getting them all. You'd be
- 15:56Speaker 1: smart for all these people that endorse him to stick
- 15:58Speaker 1: with him. Tiger Woods, a winner has come back before.
- 16:01Speaker 1: He's under some some great new treatment for his low back,
- 16:04Speaker 1: and he said this is the best he felt in
- 16:06Speaker 1: years on the L four L five reconstruction. I think
- 16:08Speaker 1: he's gonna come back. He's a winner, he's a life winner.
- 16:11Speaker 1: He'll come back. I hope you're right. I think while
- 16:15Speaker 1: the Internet is going crazy making fun of him, I
- 16:18Speaker 1: think for the most part, people are rooting for him.
- 16:21Speaker 1: I mean I am. Everybody I know knows someone that
- 16:26Speaker 1: has had or it has an alcohol or drug problem.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Everybody has somebody in their family, a relative and neighbor,
- 16:34Speaker 1: a friend with an alcohol or drug problem. And I
- 16:39Speaker 1: just hope because he is representative. Yeah, he's an icon,
- 16:44Speaker 1: people look up to him, that he can come through.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Instead of mocking him and making fun of him right now,
- 16:51Speaker 1: I think we should wish him the best and hope
- 16:54Speaker 1: that he comes through. It's not as if and and Alan.
- 16:58Speaker 1: I know this is going to shock you, but even
- 17:01Speaker 1: when I prosecuted for a decade in inner City Atlanta,
- 17:05Speaker 1: if somebody had a drug or alcohol problem, I would
- 17:08Speaker 1: do my best to get them in treatment. When it
- 17:11Speaker 1: got to be habitual violator status, when you have three,
- 17:16Speaker 1: four or five and you're driving and endangering other people,
- 17:19Speaker 1: you got to go to jail. But when you have
- 17:22Speaker 1: a problem, you need help. Sadly, most people can cannot
- 17:26Speaker 1: afford it in the state doesn't have the money to
- 17:29Speaker 1: provide it because we're spending money on everything else but
- 17:33Speaker 1: criminal justice. So I just hope he can make a
- 17:37Speaker 1: comeback because he is a hero to so many people.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Right Yes he is, Okay, let's hear it. Alan Duke,
- 17:43Speaker 1: you've been strangely silent. I agree with you. And you
- 17:47Speaker 1: look at the statement that he made. As far as
- 17:49Speaker 1: this goes, perhaps a public relations person crafted this for him,
- 17:53Speaker 1: not a lawyer necessarily. But he does seem to be,
- 17:56Speaker 1: as we say, coming clean with this, admitting that he
- 18:00Speaker 1: made a mistake and that he is going to do better.
- 18:03Speaker 1: My question is will he ever win on the golf
- 18:06Speaker 1: course again? That has nothing to do with this, everything
- 18:09Speaker 1: to do with his determination. And uh and I guess
- 18:13Speaker 1: his his surgeon three a m. Okay, I told you, Allen,
- 18:18Speaker 1: nothing good happens after midnight. Three a m. He's out
- 18:22Speaker 1: driving around. Can I just ask you, this guy is
- 18:26Speaker 1: worth seven hundred and forty million dollars? Okay, how much
- 18:33Speaker 1: is that house worth? I'm just curious, that's all I
- 18:35Speaker 1: want to know. How much is is it? Like eight
- 18:38Speaker 1: five million dollars? It's down near near mar Lago. It's
- 18:44Speaker 1: the home of the really, really wealthy people. He made
- 18:46Speaker 1: forty five and a half million dollars last year for
- 18:50Speaker 1: not playing golf, just for those endorsements we were talking about.
- 18:53Speaker 1: So financially, I think he's just so far in another stratosphere.
- 18:58Speaker 1: His home has nothing to do with this one way
- 19:01Speaker 1: or the other, but it was reportedly phenomenal. A sixty
- 19:05Speaker 1: million dollar home with a running track, a four hole
- 19:08Speaker 1: golf course, two pools. Wow. His marriage to Eleanor de
- 19:14Speaker 1: Grin occurred. I think right after he had this home built.
- 19:20Speaker 1: It's a hugely expensive home, like his hugely expensive divorce
- 19:25Speaker 1: that cost him over one hundred million dollars. And now
- 19:29Speaker 1: this the home overlooks the Atlantic Ocean with huge windows
- 19:34Speaker 1: and sea views. It's beautiful, and now his children and
- 19:41Speaker 1: wife are no longer there. Heaped on it a d
- 19:45Speaker 1: u I arrest for Tiger Woods, the golf grade. Let's
- 19:49Speaker 1: see what happens. And again, if you're not there when
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- 20:13Speaker 1: Nancy with us today, Preston Halliburton and of course the
- 20:17Speaker 1: Duke Alan Duke Nancy Grace crime story signing off, goodbye friend,