Pinkel sues to keep license; allegedly refused breath test in DWI stop
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel has filed a lawsuit to keep his driver’s license.
Pinkel’s lawyer – Bogdan Susan — on Wednesday filed a petition in Camden County asking the court to not suspend the former coach’s license after he allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test
A Missouri State Highway Patrol report on Tuesday showed that Pinkel was arrested at 11:46 p.m. Monday in Camden County on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. The report said that he was brought to the Camden County jail and was released. Criminal charges have not yet appeared on Casenet.
The petition alleges that Pinkel was “not legally arrested or stopped” and that the trooper did “not have reasonable grounds to believe that Petitioner was driving a motor vehicle while in an intoxicated” and that Pinkel refused the test under Missouri’s Implied Consent law.
Another motion indicates that Pinkel could lose his license on July 23, if the order for stay is not granted.
A summons was issued for the Department of Revenue on Friday and a hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Camden County Courthouse.
Pinkel, 73, served as MU’s head coach from 2001-15. Pinkel previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI in 2011 in Boone County. He was sentenced to two years of probation and completed the sentence.