Engadget Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Being charged and convicted are two different things.
Mad Max Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Being charged and convicted are two different things. Even if he wasn't convicted, he's an idiot for getting himself into a situation like that multiple times.
InceptorsRule Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 I've been arrested for obscene display of person in a public place, a class A misdemeanor equivalent to flashing old ladies at a shopping mall. Someone looking at an internet criminal history would think I commited a sex crime and would never know I got caught peeing behind a dumpster at 2:30 AM in college. No, not the equivalent of flashing ladies at a shopping mall, which almost surely would have been charged as a felony. Lots of people who publicly urinate get charged with indecent display. You should consult with a lawyer and see if you can get the charges expunged.
Enchanted Girl Posted August 18, 2010 Posted August 18, 2010 Disagree with the others. The difference between a 21 and 31 y.o. man are immense in some cases. The fact of the DUI in and of itself says little, a DUI in a metro area for example is more telling than a DUI in a small speed trap mentality town. In the small town where I was raised, cops just gave them out to people coming out of bars and restaurants, pulled people over right outside the parking lot though they hadn't done anything wrong, without probable cause, without even roadside sobriety tests, and rigged the intoximeter at the jail. I got off a DUI at the age of 22, stone-sober because they had brought 14 people in on DUI that night and twelve of them blew the exact same reading on the intoximeter I blew a 1.6 and hadn't even had anything to drink, we were comparing notes in line and everyone was blowing 1.6. The police department was paying BONUSES and giving awards to the cops with more DUI busts. This isn't isolated either, happens everywhere. It's corrupt and unconstitutional but happens thousands of times a day all across the country as part of the DUI witchhunt. A DUI in and of itself, especially now with an absurdly low .08 limit nationwide, says nothing about a person in and of itself other than they got unlucky. Watch how much they drink and how they act with your own eyes rather than trust in a mere DUI record on google. Don't believe government propaganda, just because there is a good rationale for a law doesn't mean it is being well or fairly enforced. As far as the assault, what do you know about that either? What if the other guy started it? What if the other guy was a child of a town commissioner? It has been 10 years. I was arrested about 7 times between the ages of 18-25 for disorderly conduct, public drunk, kid stuff. In fact, I have a kind of mistrust for people who have never had any kind of scrape with the law because I figure they must have grown up under a rock or been repressed. Again, I grew up in a small town with way too many police and way too little real crime, so they picked on kids constantly. Judge people on how they treat you now, not something they did 10 years ago unless you know all the facts. Yeah, leaving the message was rude, and I wouldn't do it, but can't say I actually blame him that much either. He's from New Jersey, she has now said. I don't doubt your post, but I seriously doubt this is the case with this guy.
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