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Convicted of Drunk Driving?Without Driving

By Lawrence Taylor

Want to know how crazy things have gotten?   Minnesota Court: You Needn’t Be Driving to Be Guilty of DWI Appeals court upholds conviction of man found passed out in parked car.  Minneapolis, MN.  Mar. 24 – Daryl Fleck was drunk and asleep in his car in the parking lot of his Crookston apartment building when someone called police. Officers who responded that night in 2007 saw his car keys on the console between the front seats, but found no evidence that Fleck, who was parked in his assigned spot, had recently driven. Nonetheless, Fleck was convicted of drunken driving, and on Tuesday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that conviction in a decision that serves as a reminder that a person can be guilty of drunken driving without having driven...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).