Driving Priviliges Revoked Part 2

***ViPER1313*** · 01-11-2005, 12:51 PM

white_2kgt Wrote:Getting busted for underage drinking/driving/possession won't look good on your record for year, getting busted for illegal drugs will mess you up for even longer. This is where your dad is coming from.

Just a hypothetical, but if a friend of yours has drugs / alcohol on themselves or in a book bag while they are in your car, and you are unaware that they have the aforementioned items, are you still liable for driving their dumb asses around?

Dragon · 01-11-2005, 12:54 PM

ViPER1313 Wrote:Just a hypothetical, but if a friend of yours has drugs / alcohol on themselves or in a book bag while they are in your car, and you are unaware that they have the aforementioned items, are you still liable for driving their dumb asses around?

AFAIK, Yes. I believe technically you are responsible for any persons in your vehicle and anything they have in their posession. The officer can choose not to cite you if they're feeling nice.

white_2kgt · 01-11-2005, 01:58 PM

Dragon Wrote:
ViPER1313 Wrote:Just a hypothetical, but if a friend of yours has drugs / alcohol on themselves or in a book bag while they are in your car, and you are unaware that they have the aforementioned items, are you still liable for driving their dumb asses around?
AFAIK, Yes. I believe technically you are responsible for any persons in your vehicle and anything they have in their posession. The officer can choose not to cite you if they're feeling nice.

Exactly. YOU are responsible for what is in the vehicle. Say you borrowed the car, you pick up some random person with drugs on them. The person who you borrowed it from can be held responsible as well as the driver!

--chad

DierwulfBL · 01-11-2005, 10:28 PM

actually if the person holding the drugs in his/her backpack were to testify in court that you had no knowledge whatsoever you would then be exonerated..........although you would be charged and have to deal with going to court/getting arrested/pretrial services, but in the end you'd be good to go

white_2kgt · 01-11-2005, 10:45 PM

DierwulfBL Wrote:actually if the person holding the drugs in his/her backpack were to testify in court that you had no knowledge whatsoever you would then be exonerated..........although you would be charged and have to deal with going to court/getting arrested/pretrial services, but in the end you'd be good to go

Yes, but like you said, you would still have to deal with it.

--chad

Dragon · 01-12-2005, 02:39 PM

DierwulfBL Wrote:actually if the person holding the drugs in his/her backpack were to testify in court that you had no knowledge whatsoever you would then be exonerated..........although you would be charged and have to deal with going to court/getting arrested/pretrial services, but in the end you'd be good to go

That's assuming the judge believed the person holding the drugs, this isn't a 100% certainty.

When I got evicted from my apt because my roommates weren't paying their portion of the rent, the apt complex said I had to go before the judge and get my roommates to swear that I'd been paying my portion and that it was them who'd failed to pay. They also told me that the judge didn't have to believe them and could still hold me accountable as well. So it all boils down to how nice the judge is feeling on that day if something like that happens to you.

He was feeling nice when I went before him thankfully.

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