Dean Martin Interview Gun Charge ABC Evening News August 05 1982 Court Appearance 

Agreed !

You gotta love his quick wit!

Dino - just great as always!

SirTibzy I personally believe that Dean was not as lackadaisical or clueless as he often made out. He may not have had much formal education, but I feel that he was pretty astute and had what we now call ‘street smarts’. Plus he seems to have been a pretty good judge of character, like when Frank became enamoured with the Kennedy’s and talked of being invited to the White House if JFK was elected, it was Dean who apparently told him that “You’re gonna find out that there’ll be no Wops in Camelot”. Also, Jerry once told in an interview that often, when he was negotiating a deal with someone to do with the act, he would look across at Dean and he would quietly signal that there was something dodgy about the other guy and that he was not to be trusted; “Dean would let me know without saying a word, and he was usually right.” Dean was really a heck of a lot smarter than his carefully-nurtured public image made him seem.

Well, under the right circumstances he probably would, like most people who carry and hope they never need it.

Emily Mason But it’s lucky that he saved the jokes for afterwards - the judge might have taken a dim view of any attempts at humour inside the court, even if it was Dino!

It was in a courtroom not on a stage. And he was there for breaking the law. Do you understand the difference? I'm afraid not.

@@jerrylewisthekid5479 lighten up ffs

@@mrssmith3872 if it had been Jerry Lewis you wouldn't have lightened

@@jerrylewisthekid5479 toxic jerry fan, dean was the main man

Excellent point,, I never thought of that

Yea, Dean Paul got nailed for trying to sell his guns, I think it may have been a sting but I don't remember. Both Dean Paul and Ricci were big into all thing military. Dean had the right to own the gun that got him in trouble he just didn't have the right to carry it in public.

2packs4sure Thank you for your answer, that's very interesting. Here in the UK most ordinary people don't have guns and probably never even see one in everyday life. Even our police don't usually carry them as a matter of course, except in more recent years in public places like airports ( that has become more common since 9/11, and the terrorist attacks that have sadly become more frequent in recent years) That's not to criticise the American culture at all, it's just interesting to note the differences between our two ways of life. One thing that does occur to me is to wonder why someone in the public eye like Dean didn't simply have a bodyguard if he felt threatened (though I can't imagine anyone wanting to harm such a likeable guy, but I suppose there were 'sickos' about even back in the 1980s)

@@lindashelley3635 It's up to the individual state, California and New York has some of the harshest gun laws on the books. While there are 36 states that allow open or concealed carry with a permit. The 2nd amendment is a very highly debated subject in the United States. Some people say guns are evil, others say it's the individual who uses the gun, the gun itself is an inanimate object. The truth is that cities and states with the toughest/strictest gun laws seem to have the highest crime rates. The states with the concealed carry laws statistically have lower incidents of crime.... But essentially you'll find the more liberal the city or state the stricter or more difficult it is to own a firearm.

@@2packs4sure Actually. Dean did have the right to own and carry a firearm, it is just that slimeball legislators, judges, and cops, in his state and others choose to ignore The United States Constitution. They have legislated and ruled against this and other parts of what was supposed to be the supreme law of our land for over a hundred years, now.

@@grigorirasputin5020 California in the 1980's,, California 2022,,, neither version respected or respects the constitution....

Dean always drove himself until he was no longer able to and then he had someone drive him in Dean's own car.. No limos...

+db2664 The Stutz was mainly a 70's thing. I know he had a Ferrari in the early 80's. He had a lot of cars but his primary ride was a Rolls from the mid 80's up to his death.

He had the Rolls for the last few years of his life when he lived on North Maple drive.

2packs4sure I think you may well be right, I seem to remember hearing another report on this incident where Dean is supposed to have told the police that any substance they found in his blood sample (or “any sh*t that you find” as he allegedly put it) was a prescription painkiller he was taking at the time. And, according to a story that Deana wrote in her book, once when she was visiting her Dad and she had a headache, he gave her just one Percodan and it made her feel so woozy that she was worried about driving herself. So if Dean was taking them regularly it may well have affected his driving.

The Percodan was given to him by his "best friend", his inseparable personal assistant: Mack Gray. Considered by many to be an enemy ... precisely because of the Percodan issue.

@@jerrylewisthekid5479 Yeah, that was a minor problem in the 60's that got much worse in the early 70's when Dean hurt his back then it got REALLY bad in the mid 70's and stayed that way more or less until the end. As someone living with pain myself I can completely understand why Dean found himself in that situation...

@@2packs4sure And coincidentally Jerry had the same problems with Percodan at the same time. Except that he, after endless trips around the world, managed to find a way to partially eliminate the excruciating pain in his spine and cleaned himself from Percondan. Destiny has always "played" with those two

@@jerrylewisthekid5479 Jerry never got noticeably "slurry" speech like Dean did. From 1976 through the early 80's Dean had a permanent "slur" going.. It's rumored that Dean added Valium to the mix at some point and that will cause slurred speech for many people...

How do you KNOW it was hydrocodone ?

He was taking PERCODAN. His closest friend Mack Gray sold it to him, it's all written in the book by Nick Tosches. AND HE HAD NO BACK PAIN, it was Jerry taking Percodan for excruciating back pain after splintering a vertebra in a fall after a show. Jerry quit in 1978, Dean Martin did not. They arrested him not because he was drunk but because he was driving high on percodan and with a loaded and ready gun in the car. But for you Americans, everything is normal. You who buy weapons like we Europeans have a coffee. You Americans are SICK WITH VIOLENCE.

@@2packs4sure He was taking PERCODAN the common name of hydrocodone. His closest friend Mack Gray sold it to him, it's all written in the book by Nick Tosches. AND HE HAD NO BACK PAIN, it was Jerry taking Percodan for excruciating back pain after splintering a vertebra in a fall after a show. Jerry quit in 1978, Dean Martin did not. They arrested him not because he was drunk but because he was driving high on percodan and with a loaded and ready gun in the car. But for you Americans, everything is normal. You who buy weapons like we Europeans have a coffee. You Americans are SICK WITH VIOLENCE.

I doubt he was drunk,, now was he loaded on Percodan or the like,,, probably...