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SCOTUS gets one right

Grizzly Adams said:
Quoted to bring levity.
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Yep, I have a new bluetooth keyboard, and when coupled with my old iPad and my terrible typing skills, results in some things that spellcheck can't fix. Aside from that, the new keyboard sometimes makes a space into an asterisk (I know my typing is not that bad) and the 'move cursor right' key does not work at all.
 
calamity said:
except driving illegally. :roll:
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See, I was actually with you until this comment. Thought you finally got one right. My mistake. You just had to go over the top.....It is not illegal to drive someone else's car, even if that someone has a revoked driver's license. The car is still legal to drive, so long as the tag hasn't expired and it's insured. But it also makes sense that after running that tag, and seeing the regular driver has a revoked driver's license, that the cop pull it over to check. If the driver is legal, then on his/her way.
 
Waddy said:
See, I was actually with you until this comment. Thought you finally got one right. My mistake. You just had to go over the top.....It is not illegal to drive someone else's car, even if that someone has a revoked driver's license. The car is still legal to drive, so long as the tag hasn't expired and it's insured. But it also makes sense that after running that tag, and seeing the regular driver has a revoked driver's license, that the cop pull it over to check. If the driver is legal, then on his/her way.
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The guy pulled over was driving illegally. The cop guessed right. And, that is as it should be.
 
calamity said:
One of the local idiots I know via others was caught for his fifth DUI by driving drunk on a suspended license. Per the tale I was told, the cop stopped him on the probable cause of a white male driving a car registered to a white male with a suspended license. Automation in the cop car does this quickly and fairly often, scanning thousands of plates per day.

After the stop, the cop ascertained the guy he puled over was indeed driving without a license and placed him under arrest. He then smelled alcohol. The rest, as we say, is history. 1-year in jail and license revoked, but I guess that really means it is suspended for at least five years, from what I hear.
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US courts are generally much stricter in handing out sentences, except for DUI.
In the UK, one failed test gets your a year's ban - even for a first conviction.

But because the public transport is so poor in many parts of the USA (my part of Atlanta certainly) the courts can mandate you have a restricted privileges driving license.
 
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