You can't blame disgraced basketball player Jayson Williams for not thinking ahead.

Though he is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for fatally shooting his limo driver in 2002, Williams is fighting drunk-driving charges in a case where prosecutors said Williams blood-alcohol level was more than double the legal limit.

Williams was found bloodied in the front passenger seat by N.Y.C. police officers, after an accident earlier in the year. Prosecutors have said surveillance video and witnesses put Williams as the sole occupant in the car that crashed in to a tree in a January 5th accident.

Williams faces an additional year in prison for the drunk driving charge.

Williams' attorney, Oscar Holt III, filed papers claiming that the former New Jersey Nets all-star was sitting in his wrecked car and "had not, was not or was not about to do any act which constituted a crime."

Add Williams, 42, to the long list of public people who should simply go away and leave the public for a while, so we could all forget about why they are so reviled.

But I guess, with his recent legal past, Williams has several attorneys on retainer, so why not keep Holt busy and maybe shave a year off of his prison stay.

At one point, Williams had it all: He played nine seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Nets and retired in 2000 while in the second year of an $86-million contract. Williams then became a television analyst for NBC and showed a wit and sense of humor that belied the demons he was fighting.

Due to a number of bad decisions and ill luck, though, he managed to lose everything.