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Clinton Advisor Arrested in New Hampshire on DWI Charge
Fox News ^ | 1/12/2008

Posted on 01/12/2008 9:20:47 AM PST by B Knotts

A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton was arrested in Nashua, N.H., on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated the day before the Jan. 8 primary, according to an article Saturday in the Nashua Telegraph.

The Telegraph reported that Sidney Blumenthal was given a field sobriety test by a Nashua officer who pulled him over for going 40 miles over the 30-mph speed limit at about 12:30 a.m. Jan. 7. The officer reportedly smelled alcohol and arrested Blumenthal following the sobriety test. He refused to take a breath test.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blumenthal; clintonistas; dui; dwi; nh2008; sidblumenthal; sidvicious
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To: dbacks; Clemenza
{Refusal to submit to alcohol test is an} [Admission of guilt under most state laws. ]

Not true.

Not quite an admission of guilt, but almost as good for the prosecutor. It is strong evidence that the person is guilty per the following from Law Digest - Law Summaries here:

A blood alcohol test can be refused, but the consequences can be severe. In most states, refusal to take a blood alcohol test is prima facie evidence of drunk driving. In some states refusal to take the test can result in the automatic revocation of a license for a year.


41 posted on 01/12/2008 11:39:09 AM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: BillF; dbacks
Several court decisions here in NJ have basically made refusal to submit to an alcohol test equivalent to an admission of guilt. It varies from state to state, but if you follow BillF's link, you will see that it is an admission of guilt elsewhere in everything but name.

This is NOT true, btw, with the "pre-tests" ie walking a straight line, touching nose, etc. In most states, you CAN refuse due to the lack of effectiveness of such tests in determining intoxication.

42 posted on 01/12/2008 11:45:44 AM PST by Clemenza (Ronald Reagan was a "Free Traitor", Like Me ;-))
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To: dbacks
[In many states today DWI is a felony.]

Can you provide proof? I would like to know which ones. I believe most are misdemeanors or, in some, petty offenses.

Right, it is usually a misdemeanor absent aggravating factors such as previous conviction, causing accident with injury, endangering a minor, drag racing, etc., per Law Summary here.

(The summary glosses over any distinction between DUI and DWI, but some states have DWI as a more serious charge such as DUI being blood alcohol level BAL of .08 and DWI being, for example, a BAL of .15 or higher. Other states just use one term or the other (DUI and DWI) and don't make such a distinction.)

In New Hampshire, the charge of 30 miles or more over the limit when DWI makes it aggravated DWI, but it is not a felony unless there is an accident with serious bodily injury. Consider New Hampshire Laws Section 265-A:3 with penalties part at Section 265-A:18 by shown here.

43 posted on 01/12/2008 12:01:45 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: RightWingConspirator
In many states today DWI is a felony.

Whew!
That's a relief. I thought they were slipping.

:-/

44 posted on 01/12/2008 12:30:13 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: B Knotts

I hope Matt Drudge is the prosecutor.


45 posted on 01/12/2008 1:02:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I resolve to remember to write "08" on my checks.)
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To: RightWingConspirator

I intended to ping you to 43.


46 posted on 01/12/2008 1:03:45 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


47 posted on 01/12/2008 1:04:08 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I resolve to remember to write "08" on my checks.)
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To: B Knotts

From Wikipedia

>>During the investigations by White House independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the Grand Jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky. It was on this occasion that Blumenthal was accused by the independent counsel of seeking to discredit the office of the counsel by passing stories to the media about Starr and his aides. The resultant statement by Blumenthal on the steps of the Grand Jury about the freedom of the press after his testimony resulted in a public fall of support for Starr and his investigations of the President.[5]<<


48 posted on 01/12/2008 1:06:23 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Bon mots

Not a felony charge b/c no serious injury per discussion and NH law linked at #43.


49 posted on 01/12/2008 1:07:06 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: B Knotts

Going 70 MPH in a 30 MPH speed limit zone??!!
Wow. They really think the laws don’t apply to them.


50 posted on 01/12/2008 1:07:45 PM PST by Tigercap (I endorse Fred)
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To: Cheapskate
If someone needs to be collared for a potentially disastrous crime, let it be a snide relativist. But just how thoughtless can a man be? Thank God he did not leave a corpse in his wake.
51 posted on 01/12/2008 1:11:45 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: Twinkie

>Get ready for more of it in spades<

Speaking of spadework...

Who has done more spadework than the Clintons?

Other than a gravedigger.


52 posted on 01/12/2008 1:14:40 PM PST by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: rep-always

No guilt here.

Sid Vicious is scum.


53 posted on 01/12/2008 1:30:52 PM PST by sauropod (Welcome to O'Malleyland. What's in your wallet?)
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To: B Knotts

can’t we modify the caption to put in the name of the slimeball. he’s not just ANY Clinton Advisor.


54 posted on 01/12/2008 1:32:22 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Clemenza

Honest sober people have different options than lying drunks.

Never take a “field sobriety” test, since it is always technically possible to fail even when sober. The breath-test is generally of no consequence (well,unless over the limit.) Mr. Blumenthal did the “right thing” if he’s gonna fight it in court, I suppose?


55 posted on 01/12/2008 1:36:51 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: gondramB

Right. Blumenthal, judicially documented character assassin and liar.

Blumenthal smeared Ken Starr by telling lies about questions asked during his grand jury testimony. The lies were designed by the Clinton attack machine to, among other things, falsely paint Starr as a religious extremist who was attacking freedom of the press. The media was then a willing accomplice to the smears against Starr.

The prosecutors could not adequately refute Blumenthal’s numerous lies without revealing confidential grand jury info in violation of the law. Starr and his prosecutors could not show that Blumenthal was lying until after the grand jury testimony was legally released by Congress, months after the testimony.

By the time that copies of the GJ testimony were released, the Clinton impeachment process was so far along, that Blumenthal’s documented lying was largely overlooked, especially by the Clinton supporting press.

When Blumenthal returned to the grand jury one time, a juror questioned Blumenthal and chided him for previously lying about what was going on in the GJ room. Blumenthal just sloughed it off, knowing that jurors and prosecutors alike were helpless to refute his lies in a timely fashion, b/c of GJ secrecy rules. (Unlike prosecutors and jurors, a witness usually is free to describe what happened during his own testimony.)

In a separate instance, Christopher Hitchens described how smear merchant Blumenthal was involved with spreading dirt on Kathleen Willey.


56 posted on 01/12/2008 1:38:43 PM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: Freedom4US

Blumenthal will sue the cop who stopped him, the manufacturer of any breatholizer, the county in which he was stopped and the State of New Hampshire. He’s litigious. During the Glory Days of Monica, he sued anyone who said anything about him he didn’t like. Almost.

He’s the #1 reason I don’t want to see any Clinton ever again near the White House. He makes Bill and Hillary seem like upstanding citizens.


57 posted on 01/12/2008 1:44:41 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: B Knotts

Sid Vicious is one of Hillary’s CLOSEST, INNER, INNER CIRCLE people!!


58 posted on 01/12/2008 1:53:37 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: B Knotts

This happened the night BEFORE the Primary and we are just now, SATURDAY, hearing about it!! If it werwe a Republican, it would have been front page news.....for DAYS!


59 posted on 01/12/2008 1:54:40 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: B Knotts; hole_n_one; TechJunkYard; Cheapskate; BradyLS; cyborg; mylife; A CA Guy; ...
The Drudge gang may find this of interest.

aw man. If only Matt was still on the air.

70 in a 30 mph zone, Sid? tsk tsk tsk

Is anybody else amused that Hillary still has people like this loser on her campaign staff?

60 posted on 01/12/2008 3:27:43 PM PST by lainie ("You had your time, you had the power, you've yet to have your finest hour" (Roger Taylor, 1984))
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