Subtitled: "Letting a few FACTS get in the way".
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Originally Posted by VtSteve
"...The only thing left for the jury is the BUI question...Fact is, there are many existing laws that are very useful in a case like this, and they are using the laws in place at that time to do their duty..."
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1) Meaning, the law that was to have been amended to consider The Broads (where this crash took place) as a...um...an unlimited "free-zone"?
2) We haven't heard from the Defense's boat-crash reconstructionist.
In the Legal-Defense industry, lawyers will refer to him as a "hired gun" (And that's the
polite term—which doesn't include the words "paid" and "liar".
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3) As to the BUI question, Erica's passenger didn't help out any on the Defense theory of an artificially-elevated BAC:
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"...As long as I've known her I've never seen her drink a beer," Shinopulos testified..."
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT
4) As to the "errant" beer cans—
could it get any worse than this?
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"...And Moir said he has a witness who believes the empty beer cans floating near Blizzard’s crashed boat may not have been Blizzard’s, but rather trash from another boat. However, a state witness said yesterday afternoon, investigators found cans of the same kind of beer in the boat’s cabin...In addition, Marine Patrol officers found Bud Light cans, as well as two bottles of vodka, one unopened, in the cabin of the boat..."
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