Speak Out: Does Virginia's New DUI Law Go Too Far?
Restaurant association: Law punishes anyone who has had 'one sip' over legal limit.
The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant trade association that represents more than 290 restaurants in Virginia alone, believes a new law requiring all first-time DUI offenders to install a Breathalyzer in their vehicle goes too far. The association has lobbied against such laws on the national level and in Virginia and a number of other states, saying it punishes anyone who has had "one sip" over the legal limit. Gov. Bob McDonnell signed the tougher penalty into law last week. It goes into effect July 1. Currently, installing ignition locks is a punishment in Virginia reserved for repeat offenders or first-time convictions where a person's blood alcohol content, or BAC, is higher than 0.15. The state's legal limit is 0.08. Citing …
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John
11:22 am on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Ok - im a 50 year old ex-navy pilot and ex-minister and i could have 2 glasses of wine for dinner, blow a .08, and drive circles around Jeff Gordon after doing so...AND most definitely drive circles around most sober 70 year olds out there driving 5 miles under the speed limit on I-95 (lol). The problem with the new law is that it takes ALL and ANY objective reasoning by the judges completely out… more ›