As Orlando car accident lawyers we wish to share an unfortunate set of circumstances involving one car accident victim. Richard Paey was involved in a car accident in 1985 and began a long and difficult course of medical and surgical treatment. After a period of time many doctors refused to assist him with his intractable pain from the injury and disability he suffered in the car accident.
More than 20 years later, Mr. Paey finds himself seeking clemency from Governor Christ. Tragically, this 48-year-old father of three is serving a 25-year-mandatory sentence for illegally acquiring pain pills to ease his chronic pain from the car accident and the numerous failed surgeries.
As reported, Mr. Paey was arrested in 1997 after he bought 1,200 painkillers with fake prescriptions provided by a New Jersey doctor. According to his wife, Linda Paey, most Florida doctors were unwilling to take her husband as a patient when they learned how extensive his injuries were from a 1985 accident that damaged his spine. He felt he had no other means to deal with his pain from the car accident and underlying conditions.
Following his conviction, under Florida’s mandatory sentencing law, Paey was given a 25-year sentence in 2004. Florida law also requires prisoners to serve at least a third of their sentence before being eligible to seek clemency. Paey is currently three-and-a-half years into his term of imprisonment. He is wheelchair bound, unable to walk because his feet are twisted and his hands shake as a result of multiple sclerosis.
