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Originally Posted by Tcoat
This is not the police officers fault and discretion to walk away from a drunk who could then drive is bad at the best of times. The judge will use discretion when hearing the case and will no doubt take the fact that he was not actually driving into account.
Now it looks like Alberta at least may agree that the automatic charges are not "fair" so in this case he may end up just fine.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...ence-1.4468021 |
I like that it's being decriminalized. Automatically becoming a criminal sure as shit isn't fair.
Especially with the scrutiny the breathalyzers had been under recently, with being wildly inaccurate.