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To: Myrddin

Logic sometimes escapes the legal process.

The government has held bartenders liable for diagnosing who has had too much to drink for a long time now.


12 posted on 05/22/2007 2:15:08 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Looking for work)
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To: School of Rational Thought
The government has held bartenders liable for diagnosing who has had too much to drink for a long time now.

A good defense attorney would put the defendant on the stand and ask if the defendant is a medical doctor qualified to quantitatively assess the blood alcohol level of a customer. Ask again, is the defendant trained as a law enforcement officer to perform field sobriety tests on customers sitting at a bar. Ask again, is the defendant provided with calibrated breathalyzer devices or a lab to perform a blood draw on a customer. If the answers are no, then the defendant with simply be guessing about the level of intoxication of a given customer.

15 posted on 05/22/2007 4:41:48 PM PDT by Myrddin
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