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To: supercat
How low can the percentage get before it becomes prima facie evidence that the cop's judgment of "probable cause" is unreliable?

Your concern is warranted (no pun intended).

But again, there will be so many people truly DUI this weekend & tonight the cops won't need to mess with the marginal cases. It becomes an even bigger waste of their time, resources & credibility than necessary. Why go through all that then have the perp/accused go free because your evidence wasn't strong enough?

Especially with so many sh*t-faced people on the roads this weekend?

47 posted on 07/03/2008 12:36:33 PM PDT by gdani (Polls show half the country can't name the Vice President.......)
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To: gdani
But again, there will be so many people truly DUI this weekend & tonight the cops won't need to mess with the marginal cases. It becomes an even bigger waste of their time, resources & credibility than necessary. Why go through all that then have the perp/accused go free because your evidence wasn't strong enough?

Some jurisdictions seize the vehicles of DUI suspects, and force them to--even if acquitted--spend hundreds of dollars in fees to get their car back or else (for cars that aren't worth that much) just abandon their vehicles altogether. I don't know whether the cops here are in such a jurisdiction, but in lawless places that steal people's cars I can see plenty of reason to make DUI arrests without worrying too much about what will hold up in court.

48 posted on 07/03/2008 2:03:53 PM PDT by supercat
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