DUI charge dropped against ex-Bears QB
Tuesday night's snowstorm turned out to be perfect Chicago Bears weather for former quarterback Bob Avellini, whose 2007 drunken driving charge was dismissed today because a former Wheaton police officer was unable to fly in from Florida to testify.
Noting the case had been set for trial seven previous times, DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter dismissed the charge against Avellini, 54, of Roselle.
Avellini, a Bears quarterback from 1975 to 1984, has been charged with DUI four times in DuPage County. He was convicted once and acquitted two other times.
Wheaton city prosecutor Peter Baroni told Sutter the arresting officer had moved to Tampa Bay within the last year. He asked for a continuance because the officer could not fly back Tuesday night as planned, but Sutter denied the request.
Defense attorney Richard Kayne said Avellini will be allowed to remove a device from his automobile that was used to analyze his breath every 20 minutes in order to drive. That device was ordered by a different judge.
In 2002, Avellini pleaded guilty to drunken driving after he was found in a vehicle parked on the shoulder of Interstate Highway 55 near Burr Ridge, and was ordered to perform 50 hours of community service and fined $750. He later was acquitted in Wood Dale and Downers Grove.
Avellini was stopped at 12:23 am June 15, 2007, in downtown Wheaton after disobeying a flashing red light, police said. The police report stated his eyes were bloodshot and glassy and he had droopy eyelids, slurred speech, poor balance and strong odor of alcohol on breath.
Baroni said he would seek to refile the charges, and Kayne said he would oppose that effort.

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