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Fox 2 News Report Featuring Travis Noble

MANDY: Announced that he wants the state to get tougher on drunk drivers. He wants courts to share information on repeat offenders and close loopholes that often allow repeat drunk drivers to walk free. All new on the edge, Charles Jaco talks to one of top attorneys who often gets repeat drunk drivers released. Charles?

CHARLES JACO: Well, Mandy, I'll tell you what, Clayton attorney Thomas Noble may actually be the Albert Pujols of DUI lawyers. If you get drunk enough and you're rich enough, he just might get your case tossed out.

CHARLES JACO: September 2006, Chrystal Ward's killed by a drunk driver in Jefferson County the day after her wedding.

CHARLES JACO: February 2009, Adam Zimmer and his wife Lindsey are killed by a Madison County drunk driver.

CHARLES JACO: Last month, father of two, Mike Prager is killed by a drunk driver in Franklin County.

TRAVIS NOBLE: I make my living representing drunk drivers. I have people that come to hire me that are doctors, lawyers, athletes. People that can afford to hire me to do their DWI, you know, they look at a 12th and 7th offense, 5th offense and they end up potentially walk away from it. That 12th offense DWI, that guy fell out of his pickup truck, urinated in his pants and blew a .23 in a breath test machine.

CHARLES JACO: He also walked free. Noble spent a decade as an east coast cop. He says he's so successful because many police foul up sobriety tests and prosecutors make a mess of the cases.

TRAVIS NOBLE: I teach DWI principles and investigations to several police officers. I did last week at a local police academy. As a police officer, I think sometimes in these cases--some of the cases I have I think you almost have to work at goofing that case up.

CHARLES JACO: Noble, not surprisingly, says he represents multiple DUI offenders because everybody deserves representation in court. But he also candidly says he's a lot more likely to represent a Ladue doctor than a Granite City steelworker.

TRAVIS NOBLE: That is absolutely true. And I would say welcome to the criminal justice system of the United States of America.

CHARLES JACO: Which may be why Missouri Lawyers Weekly named him as best lawyer to call from a DUI checkpoint.

CHARLES JACO: Now, you'd think Noble and MADD, that's Mothers Against Drunk Driving, would absolutely hate each other. but Noble says he admires their work. he also says Med--MADD rather, has asked him to speak to various groups about how he manages to keep repeat offenders out of jail. Reporting live, Charles Jaco, Fox 2 News.