Reported by Kelli Cook
ORLANDO -- Tiger Woods’ wife told a trooper that he had been drinking earlier in the day. She also said he’s prescribed Ambien and Vicodin, and he was driving erratically.
Is that enough for the State Attorney’s Office to subpoena Woods?
"The judge would laugh him out of the courtroom. There's no way you could get a subpoena for Tiger's medical records based on what's come out so far," said attorney Joerg Jaeger.
Jaeger spent eight years in charge of DUI prosecution in Orange County and knows what it takes to convince a judge to grant a subpoena for blood records.
"Tiger didn't hit another car, so there's no witness to the accident, so no driver can say he was driving all over the road," Jaeger said.
So you have no actual witnesses... And what's worse... no real proof that Tiger was drinking immediately prior to the crash.
"(It) starts off with the smell of alcohol on his breath,” he says. “We don't have this in this case so why would you go any further?"
Jaeger says this is not a case of a celebrity getting special treatment, but of an agency that never really had a case. Which leaves the question, why ask for medical records in the first place.
"To cover themselves, OK, so that the type of stuff you're asking me doesn't happen so they don't get the question of Tiger Woods getting favorable treatment," Jaeger said.
Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson Kim Miller says they present the facts and leave it up to the state attorney to make a final decision.
FHP officials say they attempted to speak to Woods' paramedic and hospital staff to see if they noticed he was under the influence, but they would not answer their phone calls.
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