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And then you could be president.I wish I didnt have to follow the law and at the same time had the power to make sure everyone else does
And then you could be president.I wish I didnt have to follow the law and at the same time had the power to make sure everyone else does
People from New York , New Jersey are the worst in the country. Boston close second .
I'm completely against drinking and driving but if he had pulled over onto the shoulder and put on his hazards to sleep it off before the cops even showed up, I can appreciate his taking the right steps. Still shouldn't be a judge anymore though.
That's not taking the right steps. That's still drunk driving, you had to get to the side of the road somehow.
This is why most cops really hate doing dui arrests. There are so many steps and little areas where the officers get challenged on every aspect. It does not matter if you have a black and white number That shows they they are way over the legal limit, if the officer does not ask them when they last ate, for example, you lose the case. The laws are set up by lawyers and designed so that expensive dui lawyers can beat the case every time. It is a racket.
I'm completely against drinking and driving but if he had pulled over onto the shoulder and put on his hazards to sleep it off before the cops even showed up, I can appreciate his taking the right steps. Still shouldn't be a judge anymore though.
You can drink and drive below the legal limit. And the number of drinks requires changes based on bodyweight and how long since the last drink.
So, someone can get the behind wheel after drinking and still be within the bounds of the law. If that person still feels that they are impaired, it is the right step to pull off the road so as not to continue endangering other drivers.
That dude was clearly wasted just from the audio. Come on...
As a LEO, have you seen a drop in drunk driving fatalities since checkstops came into play?
They have checkstops here, I drive through them all the time when I'm working and some nights they have like 20+ people in the bus.
The one who wrote the book around here charges 15,000 for a dui case in his county. 16 for the county next door. I took his class.. Wish I remembered all I learned lol
People from New York , New Jersey are the worst in the country. Boston close second .
You can drink and drive below the legal limit. And the number of drinks requires changes based on bodyweight and how long since the last drink.
So, someone can get the behind wheel after drinking and still be within the bounds of the law. If that person still feels that they are impaired, it is the right step to pull off the road so as not to continue endangering other drivers.
They don't need to be held to a higher standard, just the same standard would be fine with me.Law enforcement needs to be held to a higher standard and this judge should be made an example of.
Like i said in another post, the process is designed to be able to be beaten by an attorney. The cops that do a lot of duis are obviously better at it and are able to avoid the pitfalls.
It should be like all other arrests. You have your probable cause for the arrest, odor of an alcoholic beverage, slurred speech, unsteady on their feet, etc. then you have the test results. If the bac is over the limit, it should be a no brainer. But you have to watch them for twenty minutes before the test, ask them a bunch of questions, do field sobriety tests, and a few other steps. It is ridiculous. Then in court, it’s a bunch of word games from the attorney.
Floridians are crazy, not assholesFlorida called. They said, "Bitch, please"
They don't need to be held to a higher standard, just the same standard would be fine with me.
Right, I get that. But cursing and being belligerent on the part of the judge leads me to believe that wasn't the case here.
I didn't say it was the case. What I said is that I'm glad that after being on the road and realizing that he was too impaired to continue, he pulled off the road of his own volition and chose to sleep it off. The cops approached him after he'd already done the best thing he could do (other than never getting behind the wheel in the 1st place).
His berating the cops doesn't change anything. He was drunk. Drunk people are belligerent. However in this case, he wasn't driving. He had already pulled over long before the cops were even aware that he and his car were out there.
I also said is that he shouldn't be a judge because the best decision would have been to never get behind the wheel in the 1st place. But that said, I prefer that someone realizes their own impairment and stops driving over someone who says "Sure, I'm not 100% but I think I can make it home safely." I'm much happier with him sleeping it off on the side of the road than I am with him putting more people in danger. That a drunk guy is an asshole is pretty low on the list of things I think matter here.
They don't need to be held to a higher standard, just the same standard would be fine with me.