That sounds like a terrible legal defense. Yes - I had alcohol in my car, and I was pounding it at the time of the accident. But trust me, I was totally sober when I actually hit that person.
It’s up to the police to prove you were drunk while driving. Normally that’s not hard since they can show that between them getting to you, field so riery testing, and taking you in there’s no way for you to have had a drink before they take a blood test for instance. But if you break that chain, there isn’t a good way to prove that it wasn’t from after the incident.
Ah but you didn’t just have alcohol in your car. That’s totally legal, otherwise you would never be able to drive home from a store with alcohol. You even have witnesses stating you got it from your trunk, so even if it was already open, it could not have been within reach while driving. Which is a component of most open container laws.
It’s up to the police to prove you were drunk while driving.
Actually, its up to the prosecution to prove you were drunk while driving. And that standard is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, which I’m pretty sure ‘pounding liquor after an accident to have plausible deniability on your insobriety’ would make an easy argument to meet that threshold.
The cops will take you either way and let a judge decide what to do with you.
It might work depending on how much your lawyer costs
At that point anything works.
That sounds like a terrible legal defense. Yes - I had alcohol in my car, and I was pounding it at the time of the accident. But trust me, I was totally sober when I actually hit that person.
It’s up to the police to prove you were drunk while driving. Normally that’s not hard since they can show that between them getting to you, field so riery testing, and taking you in there’s no way for you to have had a drink before they take a blood test for instance. But if you break that chain, there isn’t a good way to prove that it wasn’t from after the incident.
Ah but you didn’t just have alcohol in your car. That’s totally legal, otherwise you would never be able to drive home from a store with alcohol. You even have witnesses stating you got it from your trunk, so even if it was already open, it could not have been within reach while driving. Which is a component of most open container laws.
Actually, its up to the prosecution to prove you were drunk while driving. And that standard is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, which I’m pretty sure ‘pounding liquor after an accident to have plausible deniability on your insobriety’ would make an easy argument to meet that threshold.
The cops will take you either way and let a judge decide what to do with you.