Monday, December 6, 2021

Watch the Beth Ann White Hearing

JJ obtained the video of the bond hearing for Beth Ann White that took place last week. The video is posted below. White is charged with two counts of aggravated DUI – death after she allegedly plowed into another vehicle on Highway 18 a month ago, killing Allison Conaway and her infant son. Mrs. Conaway's two surviving daughters remain in the hospital.

 Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Anthony Heath provided the only testimony in the hearing last week.  He testified he arrived at the scene of the wreck.  The trooper said he smelled alcohol on the defendant. White told the trooper she had been at a bar called Crossroads and had two medium – sized drinks of vodka and Sprite. She refused to participate in all DUI tests.  Trooper Heath described the injuries to the surviving daughters in detail (4:15). There was a partially – full large bottle of Seagram's gin in the vehicle. There were no witnesses to the accident. However, witnesses testified they saw her asleep at the intersection of Maddox Road and Highway 18. The witness on the horn to wake her up. Other witnesses told the trooper she was driving at a high rate of speed while weaving in and out of traffic on Highway 18. 

Although she refused to take the DUI test, the police obtained permission from Justice Court Judge Kenny Lewis to have her tested at the hospital. Trooper Heath said her BAC was 0.16 but that test was taken several hours after the wreck so her BAC was probably higher when the wreck occurred. Her vehicle had a switched license plate. Under cross-examination, the trooper said responsibility for the wreck had not yet been determined as it was still under investigation. He testified she was "swaying" when she first got out of the vehicle so he made her sit down.

The defendant despondently sat through it all as she looked away from the camera.  White has a felony conviction and several arrest for DUIs.Earlier post.


County Court Judge Johnny McDaniels denied her bond and ordered her bound over to the grand jury. Attorney Kevin Camp represented the defendant.


18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why ? Part of our issues is taking enjoyment from others misery. She's guilty, that is all we need to know...all her family needs to know and all those she killed family needs to know.

Anonymous said...

"Why?"

To witness overdue justice being served.

Anonymous said...

"Under cross-examination, the trooper said responsibility for the wreck had not yet been determined as it was still under investigation."

Street committee says other details may be forthcoming. Possibly the other party was being pursued by someone and the deceased "may" have ran a redlight. Again this is street committee and all "allegedly". If it was cut and dry her fault, this would have been wrapped up before this trial. Not defending her, her choice to get behind the wheel intoxicated, or her history of doing so.

Anonymous said...

11:12, what makes you think that justice will be served? The woman has gotten away with driving drunk too many times. You have to remember where her case is being tried.

Anonymous said...

11:12 : OK. Sadly the Highway Patrol and the rumor mill are about to drop a bombshell and this particular intersection and impatient drivers are ripe for one. You know.....the light was yellow then red then car .......Can't have a trial if the investigation is ongoing.

Anonymous said...

Over the last couple of years, I've noticed that courtrooms and other publicly-owned meeting rooms in Hinds County, seem to have been thrown-together without input by design professionals. It looks like there's "this guy every calls", who barely qualifies as a 'Finish Carpenter', who's doing everything. He seems to pride himself on what he can do with stained plywood and stock pine lumber from Lowe's. The finished product looks like basement rumpus rooms from the Fifties. This video's courtroom, at least, has legitimate courtroom furniture. But its cheap-looking Chocolate Brown opaque stain or paint, is ugly. And it's doubly-ugly, when paired with the room's 'Sensory Deprivation Grey' trim, and the anemic "Old Man's Shirt Blue" on the walls.

Visual esthetics may be low on the list of priorities (although they DO affect mood and behavior: people tending to take behavioral cues from their surroundings). But acoustics are of vital importance, in spaces where it's crucial to understand what people are saying. That courtroom is an echo chamber, and so it was nearly impossible to understand what was being said. We discovered, early-on, that our Decorator, and, later, our architects, considered acoustics to be within their purview. They obsess over acoustics. At least, the good ones do. The ones I've fired, did not.

I'm sure there is money budgeted for these projects. Is it being "diverted"? Or, are there no competent designers who're "acceptable" to the ruling junta of Hinds County, and actually competent? I would not tolerate such aesthetics or acoustics for a meeting space I owned, or one I was renting, even for an hour. Why should 'The People of Hinds County' tolerate such dehumanizing surroundings? (surroundings paid for, with THEIR tax Dollars)



Anonymous said...

@ 12:40

If you have a car accident and someone is seriously injured or dies and you have been drinking, you are AUTOMATICALLY at fault. The rumor mill can say what they want. Blood alcohol level over 0.00000000 and that's all she wrote.

Kingfish said...

Madison's are no better

Anonymous said...

1:24 : I agree with you 100 % . This women was drunk and could not prevent what the rumor mill is saying. SHE is GUILTY and should spend a long time locked up and sober.

Anonymous said...

1:24 where is your law degree. So if you are overserved, and someone runs into the back of you, and it kills them, it is 100% your fault? I don't think that is how the law works. If what the rumor mill is spewing is correct, yes she should be in some level of trouble, but that wouldn't constitute someone being 100% at fault because she was drunk.

Anonymous said...

@ 2:30

1:24 here. I do not have a law degree, I have however been hit and nearly killed by a DRUNK DRIVER and I am relaying what my lawyer told me.

It could look fabulous said...

"Over the last couple of years, I've noticed that courtrooms and other publicly-owned meeting rooms in Hinds County, seem to have been thrown-together without input by design professionals / its cheap-looking Chocolate Brown opaque stain or paint, is ugly. And it's doubly-ugly, when paired with the room's 'Sensory Deprivation Grey' trim, and the anemic "Old Man's Shirt Blue" on the walls."


Really ?

No matter the case, you are focused on "design professionals and the
friggin style of the room ?

Jeez .... I hope you never have to see municipal Court rooms or such offices within the some towns/counties in the Mississippi Delta.

Peter's Principle said...

"I have however been hit and nearly killed by a DRUNK DRIVER"

The world seems packed with people who claim they almost died or were almost killed or nearly got their finger cut off or came close to having a heart attack.

Then there's the group who claims a lawyer told them something so it must be true.

The only think you can be sure of is whether you over-trusted a fart. The rest is worthless speculation.

Anonymous said...

There is must be a negligent action taken by the drunk driver. The action does not have to be directly related to the act of being intoxicated and driving. It can be anything from driving over the speed limit, failure to turn a blinker on.... anything whatsoever negligent. Joiner v. State of Mississippi references this issue.

Anonymous said...

And it is almost a forgone conclusion that they are going to find SOMETHING negligent that the drunk driver did. So automatically at fault , they may not use the term automatically but you better bet you can be certain your going to jail for a long….long time.

Anonymous said...

I agree 11:25. They will find something.

Anonymous said...

To the poster who felt obligated to post @ 8:52, 11:25 and 12:08...Negligence is a given, genius. What her lawyer will attempt to drill the jury on will be degree of negligence, shared negligence, sole and proximate cause. She's headed to jail. His job is to lighten the sentence.

Anonymous said...

@1:18 Everyone who works in the courtrooms at the Hinds County Courthouse is well acquainted with the horrendous acoustics. However, it is my understanding that the building is on the historic registry, and therefore, very little can be done to change it in anyway. However, after you've spent several hours in there, it becomes easier to hear and understand. We adjust.


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