• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    9 hours ago

    three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving

    Then they can all share the same maximum punishment.

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      2 hours ago

      It doesn’t work like that. You can’t just punish people without probable cause. America isn’t hasn’t turned that Fascist yet. You need to prove who was driving first before you can punish them. Without probable cause, there is no justice.

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        7 minutes ago

        Lol, America has a long proud history of punishing a lot of people with much less probable causes than ‘the drunk DUI having car owner in his own car confirmed/confessed drunk at the time the car hit the cyclist was probably driving the car’.

        Edit: Oh - you were prob replying for the case they would all share the punishment, my bad - I was trying to say that there is a probable cause one of them drove & that the system should have chosen (the most probable) one. It 100% would if it was a high-profile case.