Henry Ruggs appears in court in fatal DUI case

Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs made an quality successful tribunal Monday greeting successful his fatal DUI case.

On Wednesday, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Suzan Baucum ordered Ruggs to be the proceeding successful idiosyncratic aft helium missed 1 of his regular intoxicant tests.

At Monday’s hearing, it was decided that Ruggs would beryllium placed connected an ankle show that measures his intoxicant level from his tegument 24 hours a day. He was not placed connected the instrumentality erstwhile helium was archetypal spot don location apprehension due to the fact that of a formed connected his leg.

Ruggs’ attorney, David Chesnoff, said the missed trial came aft a missed alert. However, a typical with the monitoring instrumentality institution said the show behaved “normally.”

The monitoring instrumentality was attempting to nonstop substance messages to Ruggs to archer him erstwhile helium needed to test, but the messages weren’t being delivered, the institution typical said.

Chesnoff said that aft Ruggs provided the institution with his compartment number, constabulary took his phone. Ruggs has since fixed the institution an updated number. The institution typical said Ruggs has been “extremely cooperative.”

Ruggs, who faces DUI charges pursuing a Nov. 2 clang that near 23-year-old Tina Tintor dead, has been retired of custody connected location apprehension since posting bail, and his lawyers person been appearing successful tribunal connected his behalf.

Under the conditions of his release, tribunal records show, helium is prohibited from driving and consuming intoxicant oregon drugs and is required to acquisition intoxicant investigating 4 times a day.

A hand-held show was approved for Ruggs aft a justice determined helium could not deterioration a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring, oregon SCRAM, bracelet owed to his injuries, tribunal records show. SCRAM records erstwhile Ruggs is tested.

According to tribunal minutes, Ruggs failed to instrumentality his distant enactment trial astatine 4:41 p.m. connected Nov. 13 but took a “client initiated” distant trial astatine 6:28 that evening.

“SCRAM spoke to Mr. Ruggs via his lawyer who informed them of an updated telephone number, which is utilized for substance notifications for his Remote Breath test,” the records state.

Ruggs’ lawyers, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, were successful tribunal Wednesday aft requesting a subpoena for Clark County Fire Department communications related to the deadly crash, including substance messages, video footage, photographs, log reports and recordings of dispatch calls.

In the tribunal documents, defence attorneys said they person a witnesser who alleges that firefighters failed to rapidly enactment retired the occurrence successful Tintor’s RAV4.

Baucum connected Wednesday declined to contented the subpoena, but she said the defence attorneys could contented their ain subpoenas for the nationalist records. Prosecutor Eric Bauman indicated that the Fire Department should comply with the defence request.

Tintor’s Toyota burst into flames aft Ruggs, who prosecutors said was driving 156 mph seconds earlier the crash, slammed into the backmost of her car successful a residential country adjacent Rainbow Boulevard and Spring Valley Parkway.

Ruggs’ humor intoxicant level measured 0.16 percent aft the crash, prosecutors person said. That is doubly the ineligible bounds for Nevada drivers. He was released by the Raiders little than 24 hours aft the crash.

Ruggs has been charged with felony counts of DUI resulting successful death, DUI resulting successful important bodily harm, and 2 counts of reckless driving resulting successful decease oregon important bodily harm successful transportation with Tintor’s death and injuries his longtime girlfriend, Rudy Washington, suffered successful the crash.

He besides has been charged with a misdemeanor number of possession of a firearm portion nether the influence, tribunal records show. Authorities person said a loaded limb was recovered successful his Chevrolet Corvette Stingray aft the crash.

He faces up to 40 years down bars if convicted of the DUI counts.

Defense attorneys besides filed tribunal documents past week arguing that turning implicit Ruggs’ aesculapian records and allowing wellness attraction professionals to attest astir his attraction pursuing the clang violates doctor-patient privilege.

A proceeding regarding the aesculapian records is scheduled for Dec. 8.

This is simply a processing story. Check backmost for updates.

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