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If Jeremy Mayfield were on trial for a crime, there would seem to be enough circumstantial evidence to sway any jury towards a guilty verdict.
In the latest twist, Mayfield’s attorney filed motions Monday in response to NASCAR’s appeal of a judge’s ruling that Mayfield’s suspension for a positive drug test be temporarily lifted. According to the papers NASCAR hasn’t proven their case and has not shown a good enough reason to overturn the lifting of the suspension.
Of course Mayfield’s attorney was only addressing the first positive test, not the second one administered to Mayfield. That test, which Mayfield delayed taking for nearly eight hours, was also positive for methamphetamine.
Since the second positive test, and an affidavit with Mayfield’s step mother claiming to have personally witnessed him using and making meth, Mayfield as spoken out with such logical arguments as his stepmother is a ‘whore’ and gold digger who murdered his father in 2007. The odd thing is that if Lisa Mayfield did murder his father, law enforcement authorities sure did mess up. No charges have been filed and the case was closed with the cause of death listed as a self inflicted gunshot wound. If Jeremy were right, she would have seemingly gotten away with the perfect crime.
Mayfield also claimed that NASCAR intentionally spiked the results of the second test. And his lawyer John Buric, released results of another test taken on the same day but performed by LabCorp, an independent laboratory not hired by NASCAR, that came up negative for methamphetamines and amphetamines.
The only problem was that the test results that were shown didn’t actually have Mayfield’s name, only a number that Buric swore was Mayfield’s actual test.
Then came the question about that actual test taken by Mayfield. Was he directly observed taking the sample? Bill Bonello of LabCorp told the Associated Press, "LabCorp does not comment on drug testing results."
There’s seems no doubt that Mayfield is guilty. Keep in mind that Lisa Mayfield’s claims were made under oath and the possibility of jail time for perjury should she be lying, Once a credible witness comes forward to substantiate those claims you can pretty much close this case.
So what the heck is really going on here? Why is Mayfield is still fighting this losing battle. A fight where he is in a deep hole and every time he opens his mouth the hole gets bigger?
The answer is simple, according to NASCAR veteran Darrell Waltrip.
“What I am seeing here is I got to ask myself, ‘Why would Jeremy, if he had flunked the drug test, and NASCAR comes to him and says "Look you flunked the test," and they have what they call a road map, here is your road map for getting back and getting reinstated.’ He chose not to do that,” Waltrip said on SPEED TV’s Wind Tunnel program Sunday night. “And here is the only reason and the only conclusion I can come up with - he has gotten the judge to side with him, he is saying he has passed all the other tests past NASCAR, his career is ruined, he is never going to be able to drive a car in NASCAR again.
What would he probably want?
He would probably want a settlement and I believe he is trying to leverage all this, all of his side of the story against NASCAR’s side of the story and maybe they will pay him to go away. That’s the only reason, that’s the only way I can make this all come together and work in my mind.”
It’s no secret that Mayfield owes a lot of money, to a lot of people in the garage area. From engine and chassis builders to crewmembers, there are a lot of open hands being thrust in Mayfield’s direction. So how to take care of them, and since you have no future in your chosen profession why not take care of your own bank account at the same time. The money to pay those defense lawyers has to come from somewhere. So why not yell loudly, gather some fans that are blind to the facts to join you, until NASCAR decides to open the checkbook and pay you to simply go away.
That sounds like a good theory, on paper at least. But now that that angle is going by the wayside, exposed for what it is, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for Mayfield to stand up and admit the truth.
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