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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Drunk Driving and the Constitution

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Aren't our judges supposed to ENFORCE the law?

Anyone I have ever known to be arrested for drunk driving was given a test of one sort or another over the years. If you did not pass this test you were arrested and would go to court. Nobody EVER questioned the constitutional rights of the drunk driver, you went to court and faced the judge and got whatever fine he handed down to you.

I suppose the presumption of innocence is almost gone when you have been caught with your hand in the cookie jar. This did not mean you couldn't hire a lawyer and attempt to have your fine reduced, even give proof that you weren't drunk if in fact you weren't. You DO go to court but paramount you simply don't drink and drive. There are laws and a court system to uphold the laws to the benefit of our communities. All traffic violations as far as I know, you are given a ticket for what you were doing because you were CAUGHT doing it.

So now, we have a judge who's thrown out five drunk driving arrests in a week because it is his belief that the current laws are unconstitional. The way the current laws are written there is, for lack of a better way of wording it, a presumption of guilt until proven innocent. On the face of it, I would agree with the judge but we aren't talking about someone arbitrarily pulled over, ticketed and assigned a court date for drunk driving we are talking about people that did something that gave a police officer reason to pull the driver over. We are talking about a person that a police officer tested and a driver that did not pass the drunk driving tests. Where is the possibility of being innocent in this?

So.. in one week five people were let back out on the streets to drive drunk again because they don't appear to have the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. What happened to our right to drive on SAFE roads. What happened to the citizens right to know that our legal system will protect those of us that choose NOT to break the law? What happened to our right to know someone that will drink and get in a vehicle, thusly taking the risk of turning that vehicle into a deadly weapon, will have his/her right to drive revoked and keep our streets safe?

However unfortunate I know far, far too intimately the hazards of people driving drunk. I hope someone wakes up and puts a stop to this judge before someone is.... killed.

Posted at 10/27/2005 7:34:09 pm by WhisperedWords

Andrea
October 28, 2005   11:08 PM PDT
 
Only in america...kinda like OJ walking free....

It's a sad sorry shame.
 

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