In fact, Frugoli had managed to escape discipline despite being a longtime alcoholic who was suspected of drunken driving a year earlier when he T-boned a squad car while driving home from a casino, attorneys for the plaintiffs have alleged. The jury has heard evidence that even though Frugoli appeared to have "glassy eyes" at the scene of that crash, he was placed immediately inside a sergeant's squad car and never interviewed or given a sobriety test. The sergeant wound up driving Frugoli home, and two tickets issued to him were later dismissed.