Seymour officer hauling DARE trailer faces drunken driving charge

[serpicostraight]

It's tough to do.
When I was a Rookie we didn't have Breathalyzers.
The Officers testimony, Eyewitness accounts, and statements made by the Suspect were about all we had to get a conviction.
Of course the conviction rate for DUIs back then was pretty dismal too.

was saying his speech was slurred he had blood shot eyes and smelled of alchohol good enough to get a conviction?

 

[Dogman]

It's tough to do.
When I was a Rookie we didn't have Breathalyzers.

They kept sliding off the horse! Oh, wait a minute.

 

[UncleMike]

Please tell me they had them before you retired or that would make you really... I'll shut up now.

Yes, we got one about a year after I joined the Department.

was saying his speech was slurred he had blood shot eyes and smelled of alchohol good enough to get a conviction?

Nope!!
Not in our Courts.
There had to be other substantiating evidence to back up those signs of intoxication.

They kept sliding off the horse! Oh, wait a minute.

You should know.
Old Timer!!

 

[henktermaat]

I hope he didn't LIE... "Two beers, ossifer!"

 

[henktermaat]

Slap his wrist, he'll learn.

Yeah that always works

 

[hornadylnl]

Good thing he wasn't pulled over by j706. Discretion and all that.

 

[serpicostraight]

Good thing he wasn't pulled over by j706. Discretion and all that.

how do we know that wasnt j706 driving?

 

[ZWolf]

I'm not going to say that he deserves anything, if I did that would be my biased opinion. But i will say that if he doesn't lose his job he will probably lose his position as school resource officer at Seymour Highschool.

I do think that the punishment should fit the crime though, whatever that punishment should be.