DrakeZ07
Regular Member
So! I found out something today. Literally, this morning. In an Email a legal eagle friend sent me.
So, make a couple years ago, while at a camping trip with some friends down in the red river gorge. We had all gotten a bit drinky and was enjoying each others company and some cheap beer a friend had brought in by a truckload. (Literally, the back of his pickup was loaded with lite beer). O think I told this before. Long story short, we got tipsy, and drunk. Game Wardens come up to inspect the camp sites, saw us all talking and partying around the fire. Searched us, our vehicles, and packs, and gave people breathalyzers. Those of us who flatly refused the breathalyzer was given Public Intoxication tickets, class B misdemeanor, Violation of KRS 525.100. [These was federal game wardens, not staties/locals].
So, anyway! a few months back I had written a friend because while applying for a job, it came up that in my background check, that I had received, and paid off in a timely manner, a ticket for P.I., which got me denied a key job. So, I wrote a friend to see if they could make sense of it.
Lo, and behold, here's what he came up with.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19929
Sadly, my friend said my time frame to have a legal proceeding to fix the error on behalf of the feds, and give me a potentially fat wallet as well, died the minute I sent in the $75 money order to pay the ticket. My friend, who isn't a lawyer, but a paralegal, advised me to appeal any and all future Misdemeanor tickets involving Public Intoxication if I was drinking, if I was 100% sober and just refused a breathalyzer, and give a local attorney a call.
The things I would have done if I'd known about these things back then. I'd probably be a millionaire from all the cops I would have sued the ever-lover-sheet out of.
So, make a couple years ago, while at a camping trip with some friends down in the red river gorge. We had all gotten a bit drinky and was enjoying each others company and some cheap beer a friend had brought in by a truckload. (Literally, the back of his pickup was loaded with lite beer). O think I told this before. Long story short, we got tipsy, and drunk. Game Wardens come up to inspect the camp sites, saw us all talking and partying around the fire. Searched us, our vehicles, and packs, and gave people breathalyzers. Those of us who flatly refused the breathalyzer was given Public Intoxication tickets, class B misdemeanor, Violation of KRS 525.100. [These was federal game wardens, not staties/locals].
So, anyway! a few months back I had written a friend because while applying for a job, it came up that in my background check, that I had received, and paid off in a timely manner, a ticket for P.I., which got me denied a key job. So, I wrote a friend to see if they could make sense of it.
Lo, and behold, here's what he came up with.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19929
KRS 525.100, Public Intoxication.
(1) A person is guilty of public intoxication when he appears in a public place manifestly under the influence of a controlled substance, or other intoxicating substance, excluding alcohol (unless the alcohol is present in combination with any of the above), not therapeutically administered, to the degree that he may endanger himself or other persons or property, or unreasonably annoy persons in his vicinity.
(2) Public intoxication is a Class B misdemeanor.
Sadly, my friend said my time frame to have a legal proceeding to fix the error on behalf of the feds, and give me a potentially fat wallet as well, died the minute I sent in the $75 money order to pay the ticket. My friend, who isn't a lawyer, but a paralegal, advised me to appeal any and all future Misdemeanor tickets involving Public Intoxication if I was drinking, if I was 100% sober and just refused a breathalyzer, and give a local attorney a call.
The things I would have done if I'd known about these things back then. I'd probably be a millionaire from all the cops I would have sued the ever-lover-sheet out of.