Bench trial scheduled for Gary Pinkel’s driver’s license lawsuit

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A bench trial has been scheduled for late next month in Gary Pinkel’s attempt to keep his driver’s license.

The former Mizzou football head coach filed a lawsuit last year to keep his license after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Pinkel allegedly refused to take a breath test at the scene. Criminal charges have not appeared on Casenet.

A bench trial is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, June 29 at the Camden County Courthouse, according to court filings.

The petition in the lawsuit alleges that Pinkel was “not legally arrested or stopped” and that the trooper did “not have reasonable grounds to believe that Petitioner was driving a motor vehicle while in an intoxicated” and that Pinkel refused the test under Missouri’s Implied Consent law, previous reporting shows.

Pinkel was MU’s head coach from 2001-15.  Pinkel previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DWI in 2011 in Boone County. He was sentenced to two years of probation and completed the sentence.