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Drink. Drive. Go to jail. Really?

By Shawn Matlock

We have all seen the billboards around that read ?Drink. Drive. Go to jail.? Mimi Coffey even put up her own billboard arguing against them. For the longest time, I just assumed this was standard scare-tactic propaganda used to frighten people away from ever drinking and driving. I suppose, since I have actually read the Texas Penal Code and know that it doesn?t criminalize someone drinking and then driving, I thought these billboards were aimed simply at scaring the uninformed populace to change their ?law-breaking? ways. If someone saw the enormous billboard and read that, maybe they would think twice about hitting the road after having that beer with their Mexican food. That?s the point, isn?t it? Well, I?m not sure it really is. Not too long ago, I had a conversation with my father about some federal case I had where there were some complex search and seizure issues...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).