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- Responsible Motorist Declines to Drive Drunk, Gets Charged With a Crime Anyway
- The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions: Bodily Fluids and Solids Edition
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| Stop me when you think you've identified the crime committed by the woman in the facts below: 1. Woman drives to her sister's house. 2. Woman consumes two "tall" beers. 3. Woman's sober friend asks woman to drive him to another person's house. 4. Woman says she is too drunk to drive, but sober friend can drive them both there. 5. Woman and sober friend get in car and head off to other person's house, with woman in passenger seat. Anybody yell out "Stop" yet? No, not yet? OK, let's add: 6. Police pull over the car driven by sober friend because the license plate light is not working, and see that the woman (who is in the passenger seat) is intoxicated. How about now? Anyone yelling out "Stop?" Because it is at this point that the Indiana police claim that the woman, Brenda Moore, committed the crime of "public intoxication." Indiana code provides that It is a Class B misdemeanor for a person to be in a public place or a place of public resort in a state of intoxication caused by the person's use of alcohol or a controlled substance. The trial court and, as of Tuesday the... | |
| The Day's Three Burning Legal Questions: Bodily Fluids and Solids Edition | Top |
| Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: The busybody who manages my apartment complex is now demanding a DNA sample from my dog! What now?? Answer: Sometimes managers of apartment complexes demand dog DNA samples so they can have a laboratory compare the DNA to that found in piles of dog crap that tenants fail to pick up. Once they use canine genetics to track down the scofflaws, the manager will probably impose a fine. (WMUR 9, Apartments To Use DNA To Ensure Dog Poop Cleaned) (via Consumerist) 2) Question: I'm a breastfeeding mother. The cops are all up in my face about a domestic dispute. I'm thinking about backing them off of me by hitting them with a few sprays of breast milk, directly from the source if you know what I mean! Good idea? Answer: Bad idea! That may get you charged with resisting arrest or disorderly conduct. (AOL Weird News, Ohio Deputies: Woman Sprayed Us With Breast Milk) 3) Question: Some dude went "Number 2" in our doorway. Yes, you read that correctly. We have a photo of him. Can we put up fliers with his photo... | |
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