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Editor: Bob Battle
Profession: DUI Defense Lawyer

Category: DUI DUIrony

Today's winner in the DUI DUIrony category, in the name that sounds most appropriate for a DUI defendant, actor Rip Torn is requesting a nonjury trial on his DUI charge in North Salem, New York. Torn, 76 was charged with DUI in December 2006 after a car crash in North Salem, about 60 miles north of New York City. Torn's vehicle struck a tractor. He refused sobriety tests at the scene.

Torn has replaced his attorney, Adam Levy, son of "Judge Judy," and hired a new lawyer. Levy successfully defended Torn in a 2004 DUI charge in New York City convincing a jury to acquit Torn on his DUI charge.

To add irony to irony, Torn won an Emmy Award in 1996 for playing the hard-drinking producer on the TV show "The Larry Sanders Show."