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Re: 23 yr. Old Gets 51 yr Sentence for Traffic Infraction

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From: JHW
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00
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If he was smart he should've driven straight home and opened up a
couple of cans of beer and thrown 3 or 4 in the trash. When the cops
finally come around to pick him up and  they take his BAC how are they
going to prove he was drinking and driving. When he claims the obvious

scenario.





On 31 Mar 2000 16:58:59 GMT, adr5@columbia.edu (Alex Rodriguez) wrote:

>In article <38E4358A.8FC04F5C@ix.netcom.com>, pobox-dc@ix.netcom.com says...
>
>>> What to think?  The 0.11 BAC is only slightly over the limit.  Driving
>>> off was bad but it was an Interstate and there were others around to
>>> help.  State sentencing guidelines are 4 yrs and 11 mo. on average for
>>> this sort of thing.  The guy didn't have priors.  But he killed 3
>>> people.
>
>ONe more thing to consider is that since he ran off, it was probably a bit of 
>time till they caught up with him and gave him a breath test, or blood test.
>That means his BAC may have been alot higher than .11 at the time of the 
>accident. 
>-----------------  
>Alex     __O 
>       _-\<,_
>      (_)/ (_) 
> 
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From: JHW@nowhere.com (JHW)
Subject: Re: 23 yr. Old Gets 51 yr Sentence for Traffic Infraction
Date: 2000/04/01
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