Posted on 07/01/2011 8:06:34 PM PDT by DemforBush
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week is a timely, cautionary reminder for Hoosiers who plan to consume alcohol over the holiday weekend.
It is possible to be charged with public intoxication, even while in a vehicle with a designated driver.
Police had arrested an Indiana woman who was drunk in the passenger seat of a car. The Supreme Court ruled that a public intoxication charge can stand against people in a car on a public street...
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
That’s ridiculous. Public drunkeness should be reserved for nuisances, not responsible passengers minding their business.
If I’m passed out in the back seat, they can arrest me? Arrest me for sleeping?
What the hell is up with Indiana?
I wouldn’t doubt it. I know a guy who has a DUI conviction because he was showing somebody his car stereo at a party at his house. The car was in the driveway with another car parked behind him because he wasn’t planning on leaving the party, it was his house! The key was in the ignition and turned on, even though the car wasn’t running, so that was enough. Ironically, no neighbors had complained, the cop was just passing by and saw a bunch of people drinking from red plastic cups in the front yard. What a bunch of crap that was.
This happened in California in the mid 1990s while he was active military.
“I don’t want to be drunk in Pu-blick. I want to be drunk in a bar”...Ron White
That sums it up for me.
An Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week is a timely, cautionary reminder for Hoosiers who plan to consume alcohol over the holiday weekend. It is possible to be charged with public intoxication, even while in a vehicle with a designated driver.
The judicial branches in our country are quickly eroding our liberties, legislating from the bench in this manner.
We are dealing with oligarchic renegades at this time.
All righty then. Good thing I don’t live in Indiana. Be some judgie wudgies looking for a place to F@@@ING hide.
It pisses the hell out of me how riff-raff get a pass but decent people get nailed on piddly stuff. The dregs that are constantly in and out of court know the laws and court procedures really well, so the cops and judges have to really play it straight in court. The average joe doesn’t know most of his rights, and the cops and judge sure as hell aren’t going to tell him, so the good people go into court and get totally railroaded.
A guy isn’t going to spend several grand on a lawyer on a $300 misdemeanor, and the people running the system know that. They go into the den of sharks with no idea what’s up and just get eaten up. Welcome to the New America, all right, where the criminals are untouchable and the good people get manufactured into criminals.
Perhaps now that the Indiana Supremes have themselves opined, in the same decision, that the legislature ought to clarify its intent in its ban on public drunkenness, the effort to get that law narrowed will succeed. The legislature can’t pass the buck now. It’s insane not to permit people who became intoxicated away from home in a private place to be given a ride back home or some other private place.
Get to know an attorney. It helps on the small crap. Most courts will drop everything on simple misdemeanors when they get hit with motion after motion.
Well, this is a case where all the technical i’s and t’s were dotted and crossed and the money was spent to push it up to the state’s supreme court. Indiana needs to either fix this or bear the shame for being assholes.
It is the unstated goal of the Marxist/Super Stateists to make so many laws that everyone is a criminal. Then their TOTAL power over the people will be achieved.
then why bother having a designated driver. Going after bar and restaurant business now? You can’t drink and drive. So, now you can’t drive and not drink or just not drink and not drive. or just not drink period. Must be a dem law its the only way it makes sense...even then NOT
Kind of defeating purpose isn’t it?
If everybody followed every law in effect, it would be necessary to manufacture a crime so that government would still hold sway over the populace.
I think the blame here is more to statists than to teetotal wowsers who want to see bars themselves erased from existence. That’s why they wrote the law widely and the technically correct court goes like, duh, we can’t put any common sense in here if the legislature didn’t.
Now that Indiana passed the law requiring no search warrant to enter homes, prolly best not to any drinking there either...
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