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Originally Posted by GGG
So here's a question for the innocent until proven guilty. Should the person who just blew over be allowed to drive home?
If not you are punishing them without due process.
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For one night. You can be arrested for anything and held for a night while an investigation takes place. if they want to keep you longer than that ? A COURT decides if that is what should happen
What this proposes is an automatic 3 month suspension, then at your own expense you can drive after that....otherwise you are suspended for 12 months.
All while having zero opportunity to defend any part of it. Whether it be a bad instrument, a vengeful cop, a false reading....whatever. So you get this ticket on Jan 1, you get a court date for March 16 and at that point you get a trial date who knows how far down the road. That whole time, you have no drivers license and/or have to pay thousands to have a BAC machine installed in your vehicle.
What if you are required to drive as a condition of employment and you have done nothing wrong but get a bad reading? You arent just punished by not being able to drive, you also lose your job. Sound like something you want left in the hands of a cop at the side of the road?