Speeding, “Smokey,” and the Constitution: Rep. Ellen Read’s Great Escape
WFEA host Jeff Chidester talks with award-winning reporter Damien Fisher to break down the latest bizarre chapter in the saga of Rep. Ellen Read (D-Newmarket).
After cruising down I-93 at 92 mph, Read avoided a speeding conviction not through her non-attorney representative’s grand constitutional arguments about legislative immunity, but because the prosecuting deputy forgot to testify about his radar training.
Jeff and Damien unpack the legal misfires, the “Bandit and Snowman (a Smokey and the Bandit reference)” courtroom dynamics, and Read’s theory that her technical victory was actually a cover-up to hide state corruption.
