CrimLaw

NO DAMMIT!!!

Making the DUI laws even tougher to pander to the prohibitionists is not going stop drunk driving. Listen closely and repeat after me: TAKING PEOPLE'S LICENSES DOES NOT STOP THEM FROM DRIVING BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO OTHER WAY OF GETTING TO WORK TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. ALL IT DOES IS INSURE AN ENDLESS STREAM OF HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO ARE IN AND OUT OF JAIL AND PUT FURTHER AND FURTHER INTO DEBT TO THE COURT SYSTEM.

AAAAaaarrrrgggggg!!!!!!!!!!

And now they are trying to take a person's license for life? For life? And what a joy it will be standing in court 12 years after my client's last conviction for anything watching him get sentenced to a year in jail because he had a broken taillight as he drove to pick up his wife when her car broke down at 2 a.m. Don't think it will happen? I know it will; I still get to stand in court next to guys who are under the old habitual offender laws and watch this sort of thing happen (although, mercifully, that old draconian law is slowly weeding itself out of the system).

I understand why it is hard for legislators to vote against these kinds of bills. But sometime, somehow the madness of taking peoples' licenses in Virginia for everything under the sun has got to stop