In 2002 a Sarasota DUI manslaughter conviction resulted in DUI probation rather than a lengthy jail sentence for Elizabeth Stanford. The woman had twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system when she killed a passenger in her car and seriously injured a motorcyclist. The only jail sentence the woman ever served resulted from a violation of her probation for riding an electric scooter. She went to jail for three months in Sarasota County.
North Port police officer Aaron Nick played a role in the harsh three-month sentence for Stanford since he is the son of the person Stanford killed in the car that day. Nick has been keeping tabs on the woman who he felt got off way too easily on the DUI conviction. He has reported Stanford on numerous occasions for DUI probation violations. He pushed a judge for the maximum sentence following her scooter riding incident.

Stanford moved to South Carolina where she got a license to ride a scooter and bought another one. Nick went back to her probation officer in Florida and a warrant for her extradition and arrest was issued. Before that warrant was served the charges were dropped since driving a scooter in South Carolina does not require a driver’s license so Stanford has not violated her lifetime driver’s license revocation. On top of that, Stanford admitted on her form in South Carolina that she had a lifetime suspended license.
Nick believes her leaving the state is just another example of Stanford ducking out on her responsibilities from the Florida DUI manslaughter conviction. He has even reported the woman for violating her homestead exemption on her home in Sarasota since she is living in South Carolina now. Stanford claims she is on an extended visit despite claiming to be living in South Carolina on her scooter license application. According to the Herald Tribune, she will face no punishment on the homestead exemption issue either.