I have seen Alcohol assessments done on many DWI's that were not found to be alcoholic.
Now he may be an alcooholic..but I would not make that diagnosis till I had all the information..BTW in my experience ..I have seen alot of college ETOH abusers have black outs.....
I think if the DA thought that was posssible he would have followed that premesis...
I'm not sure of what distinction you are suggesting. I didn't mean to split hairs, over definitions.
I said he had an alcohol problem. A DUI six years ago, I girlfriend leaving him earlier this year, and a statement to police he didn't remember driving home.
You are free to call that alcoholism, or alcohol abuse. I call it a situation where a blackout could be plausible, very plausible.
Obviously I don't know it to be a fact; just reasoned speculation about what could be part of the crime.
In spite of all the noise about the VDs I haven't heard about their DUIs, drug busts, etc. I know how much that disappoints our regular readers.
But you'd sure think it would come out, what with Rick Roberts and all the well informed San Diego PD folks leaking.
For blackouts: I don't know the extent of your knowledge, but I would expect you have read of cases where people do remarkably normal tasks, in a full blackout.