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Texas Police Will Take Blood By Force in DUI Cases
Ft. Worth Star Telegram via TheNewspaper.com ^
| 9/14/05
| Ft. Worth Star Telegram Staff
Posted on 09/14/2005 3:42:43 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
Anyone who refuses a blood test, even if not convicted or formally accused of a crime, will surrender his license to drive on the spot and will not see it again for at least six months.So let me get this straight. You can be forced to give a blood specimen, but if you refuse you'll lose your license? How can you refuse if you're forced? Okay, now I'm confused.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:28:20 PM PDT
by
semaj
(qu)
To: elkfersupper
Oh, this is gonna work real well. Nope, don't see any problems arising at all.
/sarcasm
To: MrStumpy
Your anecdotal experience, though unfortunate, doesn't mean we chuck the Constitution out the window, or abrogate the Bill of Rights. Which is precisely what you're suggesting.
To: elkfersupper
If the "right to privacy", specificaly between a patient and her physician, bars any legislation restricting abortion, can someone explain how a medical practioner can turn over my medical records, at all, much less force a test.
I don't object to access to some records, blood test in an accident, reporting of child abusers or potential criminals by mental health professionals, but it flies in the face of Roe as I understand it.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:29:14 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(“I worry that I've seen this movie before”, Rep. Mark Kirk on aid to palestinians.)
To: elkfersupper
Anyone who has blood taken by these vampires can call me, and I will represent you in a federal civil rights suit against everyone involved.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:31:10 PM PDT
by
1L
To: MeanWestTexan
Well, that's better than getting pulled over for some minor sin and getting a blood test, but I still don't think it's a good idea.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:31:29 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
("Nuthin' ain't worth nuthin', but it's free.")
To: semaj
How can you refuse if you're forced? Okay, now I'm confused.You lose your license on the side of the road, before you are forced to submit a blood sample, and a looooooooonnnnng time before you get to court on the charge.
To: Larry Lucido
Oh, this is gonna work real well. Nope, don't see any problems arising at all.My best guess is that every LEO will find themselves able or required to do this very soon.
To: elkfersupper
"Pretty much standard for DWI and certain "Domestic Violence" allegations since about 1993."
Still unconstitutional, by my reading of that document, no matter how desireable the purpose for which the unconstitutionality was originally created might have been. Very bad precedent.
To: MrStumpy
>>If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about<<
Oh, really? That would be real comfort to a client of mine that spent 5 hours in jail after being arrested because he was painting.
Yes, you read that right: he was painting.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:36:27 PM PDT
by
1L
To: elkfersupper
The attempt to reinstate alcohol prohibition "at the margins," instead of an outright ban like the failed eighteenth amendment, is one of those peculiar movements that has brought together the oddest of allies: the politically correct left and fundamentalists in what is called the "religious right."
They have different motives, to be sure, but their goals are the same: make alcohol consumption increasingly expensive, "shameful" in public, and a "disease" if imbibed in any amount in private. And they are winning, "at the margins," surely and steadily.
To: 1L
Painting while driving is risky. You might smear the picture.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:37:30 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: 1L
To: HiTech RedNeck
You're right. I never thought about that.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:38:50 PM PDT
by
1L
To: LongElegantLegs
pump a round thru his chest?
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:39:38 PM PDT
by
556x45
To: elkfersupper
My best guess is that every LEO will find themselves able or required to do this very soon.
"What, you mean with my donut hand?"
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:40:49 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
("Nuthin' ain't worth nuthin', but it's free.")
To: MrStumpy
DUI is not a victimless crime, it is indeed a very violent crime........what you say no one was hurt? Think about it this way....If someone shoots thru the windows of a school with kids inside, is it any less violent because no one was hit.
You are really reaching there. Very lame analogy. But maybe MADD will like it
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:41:03 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(***)
To: 556x45
Naw, they probably wouldn't shoot him for refusing a blood test...Maybe his dog, though.
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:41:53 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
("Nuthin' ain't worth nuthin', but it's free.")
To: elkfersupper
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posted on
09/14/2005 4:43:04 PM PDT
by
Petruchio
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