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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    They can appear, but most departments have a duty officer assigned to the courthouse to handle motor vehicle violations such as speeding tickets and who appears on behalf of all that department's officers, e.g., in magistrates' hearings. The burden on the issuing officer to appear usually does...
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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    You're correct, my rough estimate was off the mark. And I'm not trying to minimize Ray's drinking or culpability. At that level, he was without a doubt intoxicated regardless of the number of beverages, had no business getting behind the wheel, placed lives in jeopardy, and everyone involved was...
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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    Agree. Unlikely this would cause PD stop writing tickets -- police aren't terribly concerned about actually prosecuting cases, that's the DA or magistrate's problem -- but just showing up to contest a citation usually results in the judge/magistrate at least reducing the fine to something less...
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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    Just a rough estimate, but .25 BAC works out to about 5 shots of whiskey over about 4 hours of drinking for a 220 lb man. Or thereabouts. Certainly nowhere near alcohol poisoning/comatose/near death levels.
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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    It all depends on the fact pattern of the incident of course. Mass. may have been settled by Puritans, but jurisprudence has moved away from focusing on the offenders' sin to offender rehabilitation. Obviously, OUIs resulting serious injury, damage or death can result in sentencing multipliers...
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    Ray Bourque meet Dewey

    Put away the pitchforks, folks. As background, I'm an attorney and a former assistant district attorney. Ray's disposition is a standard first time OUI offender plea pursuant to MGL Ch. 90 Sect. 24. Penalties include a menu of fines, fees and offender education classes not specified in any of...
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