• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    1 month ago

    three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving

    Then they can all share the same maximum punishment.

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      It doesn’t work like that. You can’t just punish people without probable cause. America isn’t hasn’t turned that Fascist yet. You need to prove who was driving first before you can punish them. Without probable cause, there is no justice.

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        1 month ago

        Lol, America has a long proud history of punishing a lot of people with much less probable causes than ‘the drunk DUI having car owner in his own car confirmed/confessed drunk at the time the car hit the cyclist was probably driving the car’.