04-07-2017, 11:15 AM
(04-02-2017, 11:59 AM)grampahol Wrote: Not to defend Jones, I'm not, but I have been arrested a few times in my life whilst drunk. Certainly nothing to be proud of, but I do know that when you get arrested the police quite often, in fact in most cases will toss in as many bogus charges as possible hoping that some will stick.
I had a DUI charge many years ago and at the time had tools in my car. I was charged with multiple counts of possession of burglary tools among several other outrageously false charges. Was I guilty of drunk driving? Absolutely, but the rest of the charges were bullshit and all but thie DUI was dropped because they were just made up. If it had made the news the public would have thought I was the worst criminal since John Dillinger .. This is how our criminal justice system works. First we have the trial of public opinion and then we have the real trial. They almost never match up.
Here's a good example. Ever notice when someone gets busted for growing marijuana in their yard the police love to claim a street value of a gazillion dollars when they're including the stalks, the roots and even the dirt sticking to the roots ? I'm not a big pot head, but I do know that few, if any people smoke marijuana roots and nobody I know of smokes dirt sticking to the roots.
As a fellow law enforcement officer in the state of California I've never heard of a DUI and then attempting to charge with burglary tools. We won't go after something as petty since we have the DUI charge already . We don't just add chargers hoping they "stick" we add what fits the crime . Sometimes it's just a charge or other times it's 4 or 5. Unless it's a slam dunk case the DA won't pursue the case and I would say 65% of all cases get dropped for numerous reasons . DA won't touch , they want their 90% win percentage . And most of the time we won't charge for public intoxication we just arrest until they sober up and don't press charges on them and 849pc them. You must have been a real ass for them to even charge you.
