Friday, March 05, 1999
Chronic DUI driver Jodrey makes deal
Plea still likely means jail time
BY TOM O'NEILL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BATAVIA — Facing a sentence that might have kept him in jail until he's 146 years old, eight-time DUI offender Charles Jodrey agreed to a plea bargain Thursday.
Still, Clermont County prosecutors hope his guilty pleas to nine felonies, including drunken driving and forgery-related tampering with evidence, will keep the Milford man in jail — and off the streets — for the rest of his life.
Mr. Jodrey, appearing in orange jail jumpsuit, ankle shackles and handcuffs, answered “yes” and “no” to questions in a low tone. He will be sentenced March 30 by Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ringland.
Mr. Jodrey, 56, faces a maximum of 29 years in prison. Thirty-seven charges, many duplicative forgery charges, were dismissed. He's been in Clermont County Jail since his DUI arrest Thanksgiving Day.
Though plea-bargain discussions began weeks ago, Mr. Jodrey's case caps a week in which alcohol is suspected of being a factor in four local accidents, three of them fatal.
All three fatal wrecks involved drivers with prior DUI convictions, but none with more than Mr. Jodrey.
Mr. Jodrey was convicted in 1984 of DUI and involuntary manslaughter for a crash that killed Martin Ackermann of Anderson Township.
Mr. Jodrey was sentenced to 10 years. When released, he resumed drinking and driving, avoiding detection by using aliases to obtain licenses and vehicle titles.
Mr. Jodrey avoids a trial which was to start Monday. By pleading guilty, as opposed to no contest, he gives up his right to appeal. And that was a key factor for Tom Scovanner, who said he'd “like to see him spend the rest of his life in jail.”
So would Nancy Moore of Hamersville, Brown County, and Denis Murphy of New Richmond. Mr. Jodrey used their respective brothers' names as aliases after his own license was suspended.
Mr. Jodrey had known Larry Pence and Daniel Murphy. Both died in a 1966 car accident in New Richmond.
“It's a violation,” Ms. Moore said after the hearing. “It's just morally repulsive. ... I don't ever want him out.”
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