[108031] in Cypherpunks
Re: Whats up with Nevada?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian B. Riley)
Tue Feb 2 00:56:47 1999
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 00:46:52 -0500
From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@macconnect.com>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@macconnect.com>
On 2/1/99 10:20 PM, lcs Mixmaster Remailer (mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu) passed
this wisdom:
>Drunken driving suspects face force over blood tests
>Refusing a blood and breath test can have rough results as authorities have
>ways of making you give.
>By Glenn Puit
>Review-Journal
> Andrea Jones' 12-year-old son used to talk about being a police
>officer, but not anymore.
> Ever since his father, Terry Jones, died in police custody in
>November as jailers were trying to draw blood from his arm, the boy has
>nothing but animosity for law enforcement.
> "The people that killed my husband should be arrested," Andrea Jones
>said. "Why in the world did they have to stand on his head and kick him
>just for a blood-alcohol test?"
> Las Vegas police say Terry Jones' death was an accident and that
>state law mandates the use of force when suspects refuse to have their
>blood drawn.
> But regardless of whether Jones' death involved criminal conduct by
>guards at the Clark County Detention Center, the case has raised serious
>questions about how Las Vegas Valley law enforcement draws blood from
>resisting drunken driving suspects.
> Individuals who refuse to submit to the blood tests have been
>restrained at the hands and feet, had towels placed over their faces, and
>according to a witness in the Jones case, kicked in the head to ensure a
>driving-under-the-influence conviction.
This is bullshit ... while I have no love for good old New Jersey and
most of its laws. I do remember that in NJ when you get your license part
of the 'contract' is that you will submit to field sobriety test and or
blood tests and that failure to do so is tantamount to failing the test
... I know there are some legal issues here (like the state's right to
even require licenses, etc) but if you are goin to accept motor vehicle
licensing its certainly a whole lot better for everyone involved to do it
that way ... saves the town a shitload of money in a wrongful death or
injury suit, the cops a lot of bruises, and the poor drunken sot (who has
no damned business on the road) a funeral or a trip to the hospital.
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