Jul. 3 2023, Revealed 7:30 p.m. ET
The previous 5 months have been a dwelling hell for the estranged husband of Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Eva Marcille, RadarOnline.com can completely reveal.
Simply weeks after Marcille slapped Michael Sterling with divorce papers, he was arraigned in April on a DUI cost in a rear-end crash that subsequently led to a civil lawsuit in June, in accordance with numerous court docket paperwork.
Sterling, a 41-year-old lawyer, was handcuffed for allegedly reeking of booze following a midnight crash on Feb. 4, 2022, in Sandy Springs, Georgia — the place as a substitute of calling a lawyer — he summoned his lovely spouse who confirmed up on the scene with a good friend!
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“I advised her that her husband was beneath arrest tonight,” the police officer acknowledged within the police report. “I let her converse to him briefly.”
Sterling, by means of his lawyer William Treadwell, pled not responsible in Fulton County State Court docket on April 26 on the misdemeanor prices of driving inebriated, following too intently, and reckless driving, in accordance with paperwork.
Sterling has vigorously denied he was boozed up, claiming his eyes had been “shiny and crimson” due to a medical situation. His lawyer additionally argued that not one of the emergency room staff on the hospital the place Sterling was taken following the crash accused him of being inebriated.
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However the crash report states: “Sterling was sporting (a Covid-19) masks, however as he spoke to me, I may odor the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath.”
Sterling additionally admitted to having his “final drink” about “4 or 5 (o’clock)” that day earlier than allegedly plowing his 2011 Ford Mustang muscle automobile into the again of the Toyota Camry pushed by Cody Clark, 26.
Clark, who was injured together with passenger, Lauren Hammett, advised police they only noticed the “Mustang come on them so quick” that the impression spun the Toyota right into a concrete median.
When police requested Sterling what occurred, he replied, “he didn’t know.”
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“He mentioned that he was going too quick to maintain from hitting the opposite car,” the report acknowledged. “He mentioned that the car came to visit to his lane and he hit it.”
“I requested Sterling if he would undergo some voluntary discipline sobriety evaluations and he mentioned no,” the officer acknowledged within the report. “I requested him why not and he simply replied, as a result of ‘I’m an lawyer.’”
It’s unknown why Sterling determined to name his spouse earlier than he was handcuffed, positioned at the back of the patrol automobile, and hauled off to the town jail.
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A court docket clerk at Sandy Springs Municipal Court docket advised RadarOnline.com the case was bounded over to Fulton County State Court docket upon Sterling’s request the place he was subsequently charged.
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Sterling’s mannequin spouse filed for divorce in March 2023 claiming their marriage is “irretrievably damaged” and he or she is searching for custody of three minor youngsters, plus little one assist.
Sterling has vowed to combat towards the divorce as a result of he plans to woo her again.
Sterling’s second mission might be keeping off the lawsuit filed by Clark and Hammett who declare the embattled lawyer was “negligently, carelessly, and unlawfully operated mentioned car by driving beneath the affect, driving recklessly” triggering the crash that trigger “psychological and bodily ache and struggling.”
In the meantime, Sterling’s lawyer submitted a letter to prosecutors refuting the DUI cost.
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“There was no odor or odor of alcohol within the medical report,” the lawyer claimed. “Certainly, each nurses had been subpoenaed for the executive listening to on this case and had been ready to testify that in the event that they smelled the odor of alcohol, it might have been included of their report.”
“They’d have testified that the truth that they didn’t embrace it within the medical report means they didn’t detect the odor of alcohol. They by no means testified on the administrative listening to as a result of the officer agreed to dismiss the case as a result of he didn’t correctly advise Mr. Sterling of the implied consent rights.”