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By Bill on November 24th, 2009 at 8:36 am

Army JAG prosecutor marries ex-wife of MacDill captain he puts in prison for DUI

Joseph Piotrowski has filed a bar complaint and is now trying to get the military to open an investigation. From the St. Petersburg Times-

The driver has a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in his red Jeep and whiskey coursing through his veins as he blows past a stop sign in Riverview. He smashes into a car, killing a 24-year-old woman who is pregnant with her first child.

So a prosecutor steps in, ready to send the driver — an Army captain — to prison.

The prosecutor’s name is Louis Birdsong, also an Army captain. At this point, in April 2001, he does not know this case will lead to two different trials, one military and one civilian.

He certainly does not know this case will change his own life.

In between the two trials, Birdsong develops a friendly relationship with the driver’s recently divorced ex-wife. And three years after the trials, he marries her.

The driver, now incarcerated at the Cross City Correctional Institution, was stunned when he learned this year that his ex-wife and his prosecutor had married each other.

I suggest you read the article in its entirety. Piotrowski was offered 15 years in a plea bargain. He declined, and got sentenced to 30 years instead. He admits to what he did and gets no sympathy at all from me. He destroyed two human lives.  For that Joseph Piotrowski deserves to rot in jail for a very long time.

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  • theotherguy
    6:51 pm on November 24th, 2009 1

    A PoS the man may be, but that lawyer clearly violated ethical standards when he got involved in that second case. He should of handed it over to another lawyer to take care of, thus preventing any ethics questions from arising.

    Also you should not be tried for the same offense twice, that is a core principle of our system, and is actual law. One of the two trials should be thrown out, probably the civilian one since it came second and was the one subject to the manipulation.

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