bucs90
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But please tell me, without the BA test or blood test, and the convenient excuse of "oh I got that disease that makes me look, act and smell drunk", how would we ever convict anyeone of DUI? Ever? Would you have to prove you have the disease? NO. The state would have to prove you dont- burden of proof in court.
The Libertarian/Tea Party government hatred sounds good and all in a controlled environment. But in reality, we need cops and a military and a government, and sometimes they have to do some hard things to make society work in a civil manner.
Funny, because any Libertarian would tell you that the chances of being acquitted by a jury (for drunk driving) would be next to nil, even without hard evidence. How do you think juries managed to convict hundreds of years ago without all these tools of modern science? Oh yeah, guilty without reasonable doubt.
Its actually very hard to convict one now. For one, video is required on all stops. Then, there are dozens of technicalities a cop must follow while on roadside that defense attorneys jump on to get a case thrown out. Drivers dont have to do field sobriety. They dont have to blow. Cities and counties cant afford to host endless jury trials, so a jury trial request will often result in a plea deal.
Its very hard. Which is why drunk drivers kill more people per year than both our foreign wars combined. Because it's hard to prosecute DUI's, and because of that, there is not much of a deterrence to people fucking driving shit faced.
Thank God, some judges are tired of it, and are gonna start ruling in ways that maybe we can stop the "red asphault" in America.