Posted on 01/12/2008 9:20:47 AM PST by B Knotts
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.
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.
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.
Whew!
That's a relief. I thought they were slipping.
:-/
I hope Matt Drudge is the prosecutor.
I intended to ping you to 43.
PING!
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]<<
Not a felony charge b/c no serious injury per discussion and NH law linked at #43.
Going 70 MPH in a 30 MPH speed limit zone??!!
Wow. They really think the laws don’t apply to them.
>Get ready for more of it in spades<
Speaking of spadework...
Who has done more spadework than the Clintons?
Other than a gravedigger.
No guilt here.
Sid Vicious is scum.
can’t we modify the caption to put in the name of the slimeball. he’s not just ANY Clinton Advisor.
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?
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.
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.
Sid Vicious is one of Hillary’s CLOSEST, INNER, INNER CIRCLE people!!
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!
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?
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