There’s this homeless guy in San Diego who wrote an autobiographical story about himself and his legal troubles. The story is not long, but I found myself disliking him, then laughing, then liking the guy, then shaking my head; and finally smiling at the end. The guy seems dumb, smart, foolish, wise, selfish, lazy, sensitive [...]

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Section 568.050 makes it a separate crime (child endangerment) to commit a DWI with a child in the car. The new Senate Bill 216 would also add driving with any level of controlled substance (or its metabolite) in the body to create a new way to commit child endangerment. Both of these ways to commit [...]

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Missouri Senate Bill No. 216, filed this month, also creates a new crime of child endangerment :
568.050. 1. A person commits the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree if:
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(5) He or she operates a vehicle in violation of . . . section 577.022, RSMo, while [...]

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In Missouri, the DWI law makes it a crime to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs. You have to be driving in an impaired condition to be convicted. Or at least have a blood alcohol level of .08%
Prosecution for drug-related DWI is a mess for police and prosecutors because there are no standards [...]

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I appreciate the comment from Tom Osborne (former Audrain County PA) about my post on the fastest speeding ticket. Tom signed that ticket and noted that the motorcycle had a passenger at the time. So here is one more from Tom’s watch. My nominee for drunkest driver. This one is from 1989. The trooper is [...]

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This is just something I ran across on my hard drive. It’s the fastest speeding ticket I’ve seen in mid-Missouri (on US Hwy 54 when it was two lanes). It’s old, but I think the trooper that wrote it is still on the job. This guy couldn’t have been easy to catch. Next time, I’ll [...]

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I was making a summary of Missouri laws related to drinking and driving when I came across one of those peculiar laws that always makes me scratch my head and wonder how THAT got there.
Missouri law makes it a class C felony to negligently cause physical injury to another person while driving drunk. That means [...]

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Missouri law (section 304.022.2) requires that drivers–on roads with two or more lanes in each direction–upon approaching a stopped emergency vehicle with flashing lights shall move over into a lane away from the emergency vehicle. The exception is where changing lanes is unsafe or impossible; then the driver must slow down.
This is the law as [...]

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