Posted on 05/19/2018 11:59:56 AM PDT by Drew68
Or the guy who mixes it with other drugs.
What about suing the manufacturers, the winemakers, the old redeye makers, and on goes the lawyers latest gold mine. Same as tobacco.
They’re trying that already. Crazy.
Unless the customer is falling down drunk, many times you wouldn’t know. Same with the gun purchaser who takes out his wife’s boyfriend. The shop keeper isn’t a mind reader or fortune teller.
It generally is not a law, but Supreme Court rulings.
They ruled that prosecutors could lie to people they are prosecuting, they can recruit false witnesses, they can have personal conflicts of interest in the case, they can repeatedly prosecute the person they are persecuting, as long as they do not take the case all the way to trial.
All of this actually happened in a case that the Supreme Court ruled on, and they said keeping the Prosecutor immune from lawsuit was more important, because, otherwise, prosecutors would be sued by everyone they prosecuted...
http://www.scotusblog.com/2009/11/how-broad-is-prosecutorial-immunity/
I've always said that the greatest destroyer of lives and families in this country has been alcohol consumption but yet the nico-nazis focused on the tobacco industry due to personal bias against the public use of the product.
Since Washington is filled with non smoking alcoholics, it's easy to see why big tobacco was the target rather than the beer or alcohol industry.........
You don't have to ban a product to achieve your goal of eliminating it, simply make it impossible for the product to be sold.......
As an aside, my brother was killed by an underage drunk driver, not by tobacco..........
An illegal bartender?
Was the driver an illegal alien?
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This will not hold up in a proper court.
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Good. BASSET training covers this. So do the Dram Laws.
The establishment and its owners are in real civil legal jeopardy here, too. I hope the family of the deceased sues them into bankruptcy.
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Prosecutorial overreach the gift that keeps on giving
“This will not hold up in a proper court.”
Oh yes it will. They’re called Dram Laws and they exist in all 50 states.
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This absolutely should not be in criminal court. But if someone wants to sue you, they probably should have that right?
You're obviously not a lawyer........What civil rights were being violated?
If you continue to serve a drunk you are responsible
I don't think it matters. In most places, it's against the law to serve someone who is "visibly intoxicated" whether they're driving or not. And since bartenders do not have devices at their disposal to physically measure intoxication, they have to make a judgment call.
Oh, and they have to operate a business that is dependent upon selling alcohol to people.
They would lose. Unfortunately this has been the law since the 80s. Thanks, MADD.
Translation: The Chief of the Harris County Vehicular Crimes Division would really like to be Harris County DA and he wants you to know his name. So what if some bartenders living paycheck to paycheck get squashed on the way?
I ‘vowed’ to never listen to ANYONE in authority way back when ‘they’ had us climbing under desks in case of nuclear attack.
About 5 minutes into my ABC class in Navy Boot Camp I vowed to disregard ANYTHING -that I personally didn’t verify- that an ‘adult’ said.
On that subject remember back in the ATests after WWII that the ‘proper’ procedure for the crew was to make sure they wore dark glasses, buttoned sleeves and collars and turn your back to the blast.
YEAH RIGHT!!!!
I remember this training when I worked a beverage booth for a fundraiser at a NFL game.
It pretty much went: "Don't serve people who are drunk, count every drink you sell everyone in the stadium, and beware of alcoholics who are good at feigning sobriety. Oh, and if you screw this up, you can go to prison."
It's a wonder there's anyone willing to serve booze these days.
I’m six five and 240 and id be drunk on 5 drinks in one hour but I don’t drink
I detest drinking beyond one or two drinks
Nothing I dislike more
Brings out the worst in humanity
To me it’s as destructive as amphetamines or cocaine abuse
Yet legal and celebrated
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