A Drunkard's Dream

Bettenberg is getting worked up. "You think if it was a speeding ticket the cops would win? You gunned a black car speeding and I drive a blue car? BOOM! End of case. But this is a DUI."

A few weeks ago, another case made its way to his desk. "My guy is stopped because he's in a 'suspicious vehicle,'" he begins. Eventually the guy is charged with driving under the influence.

"I've heard of suspicious people, or even suspicious circumstances," says Bettenberg, already rehearsing his defense. "But a suspicious vehicle? He was on the side of the road reading a map!"

Constitutionally, the circumstances are appalling.
They are tantalizing!
But was he drunk?
"I don't know," Bettenberg says sincerely. "It hasn't gone to trial yet.