Innocent until proven guilty?

[Scabman]

These days in the Norwegian media there is a focus on a latent law that one county started to enforce, which is a traffic law that states that if you are not "soberly" or otherwise fit to drive a car, you shall not have a drivers license.
With this law the police have actually suspended some kids license since he had repeatedly been warned after loud parties in his own flat.
So, he had not been drunk driving, he had merely been drunk and a dickhead too many times, and therefor is not fit to drive a car.
They've also enforced this law on some outspoken weed advocat since he said he smokes weed daily.



Is this normal practice elsewhere, if not, should it?

[CrAnIuM]

These days in the Norwegian media there is a focus on a latent law that one county started to enforce, which is a traffic law that states that if you are not "soberly" or otherwise fit to drive a car, you shall not have a drivers license.
With this law the police have actually suspended some kids license since he had repeatedly been warned after loud parties in his own flat.
So, he had not been drunk driving, he had merely been drunk and a dickhead too many times, and therefor is not fit to drive a car.
They've also enforced this law on some outspoken weed advocat since he said he smokes weed daily.



Is this normal practice elsewhere, if not, should it?


Most US cities have a bazillion insignificant laws on the books. These are oft time used to "get" a dude when said dude can not be "gotten" on other terms.

Hell ... kill a dude and leave his guts all over your yard and you could, maybe, get a lawyer to argue self defense. But hide ONE dollar from the Internal Revenue Service and you are automatically looking at a Federal crime.




anywho ...

I imagine your cops are like cops every where, they try to do a good job with the tools they have.

[Mamba]

Would have been handy to have that law BEFORE this went down: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244730/Businesswoman-killed-young-couple-drink-driving-113mph-jailed.html

[KommieKat]

Every lived in a country that you are guilty until proven innocent?

That's the way it is in Japan. There is no bond system either. Your ass will sit in jail until your court date.

Good luck!

[4nik8]

You're guilty till proven innocent in America.

That's why the jail and required bond to get out.

It's only in the courtroom that you are "theoretically" innocent till proven guilty.

[Deadly_Toxin]

You're guilty till proven innocent in America.

That's why the jail and required bond to get out.

It's only in the courtroom that you are "theoretically" innocent till proven guilty.

"Theoretically" perhaps. But unfortunately innocent until proven guilty does not extend beyond theory.