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When Does the Insanity End?

By Lawrence Taylor

So you thought the crime of drunk driving required….well, driving? High court: Asleep at wheel, not driving, enough to get a DWI Minneapolis, MN.  Jan. 21 — Being drunk and asleep at the wheel of his car while it was parked in his apartment lot with the keys on the console was sufficient evidence to convict a Crookston man of drunken driving, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday. In a seven-page decision, Justice Alan Page said the jury could reasonably conclude that Daryl Fleck was in "physical control" of his vehicle when arrested. Fleck’s appellate lawyer, G. Tony Atwal, an assistant state public defender, disagreed with the ruling. "Presumably, if you’re in or about your car, the county attorney could now charge you with a physical control DWI," Atwal said...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).