The case is due to be heard in court on Tuesday, when a judge will decide whether to press ahead with any of the indictments. Yet even if Scheffler is only hit with a traffic misdemeanour – that would likely amount to a fine – he will contest it. “They [the charges] will either be dropped or we will go to trial because Scottie didn’t do anything wrong,” Steve Romines, Scheffler’s attorney, told Golf Channel. “There had been a traffic fatality down the road and so there were different traffic directions going on and traffic control officers were advising different things,” he said. “Scottie was advised by one officer to go around the traffic and turn left into the facility.


Source:   Stuff
May 18, 2024 21:19 UTC