You can be charged (in Tennessee) with DUI even if you’re sober, WSMV 4 Investigates reveals
You can be charged (in Tennessee) with DUI even if you’re sober, WSMV 4 Investigates reveals
From Clarksville to Murfreesboro, from Franklin to Goodlettsville, we found sober drivers charged with DUI, and because of a backlog in alcohol and toxicology tests at the TBI, they are forced to wait months for proof of their innocence.
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If I am reading this headline and understanding the article correctly, "yes they're on a power trip it seems" But... You can be charged with "x" and then found Innocent months later... Which, I think is slow, but at least it's "working" under the f'd up faulty system we (or in this case, TN) have in place.
You can be CHARGED with any kinda bs and be innocent, yes. Me personally, I've been charged with crimes, I've been ticketed unjustly, and usually had some recourse. In Europe I got tickets once and had no recourse whatsoever (a blitzer got me, but I was driving a friend's car).
Issue is that there is no real recourse for you to take against the incompetent power tripping cops, and the arrest itself shows up on your police record and you have to go pay money to get it expunged.
(Non american here) could you even get out of paying? I imagine refusing to pay for months would get you thrown in jail, re-fined or have your license taken away. And once you finally are proven innocent getting any money back from a beurocracy is slightly harder than getting blood from a stone.
You misunderstand, you're paying to get the unjust arrest struck from your police record so it doesn't fuck you when trying to get hired places.