Brother been caught drink driving

Lt. Manlove

Lt. Manlove

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The idiot.

Anyway, the police have made a mistake on whatever forms they have to fill out regarding the registration plate.

Somebody wants me to find out if he can get away with this if they have made a mistake? I've told her I seriously doubt it but i'll get told off if I dont find out for her :p
 
Lt. Manlove said:
The idiot.

Anyway, the police have made a mistake on whatever forms they have to fill out regarding the registration plate.

Somebody wants me to find out if he can get away with this if they have made a mistake? I've told her I seriously doubt it but i'll get told off if I dont find out for her :p
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got to agree with the first line

but i bet he will get off if he gets a good solictor :eek:


should not get off though if he was over the limit
 
I know. But it will affect his job and other relations he has.

I am stuck in the middle here! I don't want to do this for him but I feel inclined to do so.
 
I have to say he shouldn't get away with it if he was, and I wouldn't want a technicality like that to stop it from happening. Drink driving is one of the most selfish things you can do on the road in my opinion.

I guess he might have a chance with a good lawyer... I understand it'll affect his job and life etc... He should have thought of that first though.

However I wouldn't mind a technicality like that letting me off being a little bit over the speed limit ;)
 
I'd tell him to seek proper legal advice. He's got nothing to lose at the end of the day.
 
Let me see if I understand this ..... you want help to get a drink driver off on a technicality?

No offence to you, Lt. Manlove, but even if I knew, hell will freeze over before I'd help. My view, however popular or unpopular it may be, is that drink drivers deserve whatever a court thows at them.

If your brother was claiming to be innocent, that's one thing. But from what you say, he's guilty and trying to get off on a technicality, I hope he gets clobbered hard. I have nothing but contempt for people selfish enough to put their own transitory pleasure from a drink or two ahead of the safety and indeed lives of other innocent road-users and pedestrians.

I know you aren't justifying his actions, Lt, and I agree with your "idiot" assessment, so this isn't a me having a go at you. But if it was my brother, he could get himself out of that predicament, because I'm damned if I'd help him. He has a lesson he clearly needs to learn.
 
I have to agree with Sequoia. Under no circumstance should he be let off on a technicality. It's just something you don't do, end of.
 
Lt. Manlove said:
The idiot.

Anyway, the police have made a mistake on whatever forms they have to fill out regarding the registration plate.

Somebody wants me to find out if he can get away with this if they have made a mistake? I've told her I seriously doubt it but i'll get told off if I dont find out for her :p
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I would say that does not render his arrest unlawful or due to the registration being written down wrongly that that constitutes an abuse of process. The fact remains, as you have described, that he has been driving a motor vehicle while over the prescribed limit. The registration of the vehicle being taken incorrectly will be a formality to correct.

He is a big boy and should take the punishment deserved when someone drink drives.

Oh, and a superb post from Sequoia.
 
I doubt the best lawyer in the land will get him off a drink driving charge over a simple clerical error. It's an arrestable offence and the registration number of the car is not really material to the overall evidence of the case.

Pleading hardship doesn't have much effect in drink driving cases either - you do the crime and you do the time, and rightly so IMO.
 
Freefaller said:
However I wouldn't mind a technicality like that letting me off being a little bit over the speed limit ;)
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Now before anyone jumps on me and makes out I'm saying drink driving is good, I find it interesting that people are so quick to jump on drink driving, yet not so trigger-happy with speeding.

As I say though, still shouldn't have done it. Would be interesting to know how far over he was.
 
Ol!ver said:
Now before anyone jumps on me and makes out I'm saying drink driving is good, I find it interesting that people are so quick to jump on drink driving, yet not so trigger-happy with speeding.

As I say though, still shouldn't have done it. Would be interesting to know how far over he was.
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Hmm, while I see where you are coming from, I think that more people break the speed limits than drink drive.

I also noticed the wink on Freefaller's post. ;)
 
Ol!ver said:
Now before anyone jumps on me and makes out I'm saying drink driving is good, I find it interesting that people are so quick to jump on drink driving, yet not so trigger-happy with speeding.

As I say though, still shouldn't have done it. Would be interesting to know how far over he was.
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Very different offences. Drink driving costs lives. Breaking the speed limit doesn't..
 
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