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Food an acquired taste at Tent City jail Edmonton Sun Food from Maricopa County jail on Sunday, July 31 2011, in Phoenix, Arizona. (MICHELLE THOMPSON/EDMONTON SUN) Even when the hunger struck and gnawed at my stomach like a ravenous coyote, denial remained a constant ... and more »

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Khabby begins stint in Phoenix jail 0 Toronto Sun Surrounded by soft criminals — his section contains mostly fellow DUI convicts — Khabibulin kept a low profile during his inaugural visit to the infamous Arizona jail. The 38-year-old netminder arrived at the Maricopa County jail shortly before 9 am ... Khabibulin turns himself inCTV.ca Khabibulin's walk of shameCalgary Sun Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin jail sentence softenedAHN | All Headline News msnbc.com -ESPN -Gant Daily all 346 news articles »

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Vermont Supreme Court Says DUI Law Applies to Boom Lifts

The Vermont Supreme Court has reinstated charges against a Franklin County man accused of steering a large, slow-moving piece of construction machinery called a boom lift while he was drunk.

Justices unanimously overturned a lower-court judge’s ruling that threw out charges against construction worker Scott S., whose attorneys had argued that the boom lift wasn’t a “motor vehicle” under state law for the purposes of drunken driving violations.

“That the machine travels at a relatively slow speed and is generally driven only relatively short distances is immaterial,” Associate Justice John Dooley wrote in the high court’s opinion, released Thursday. “The boom lift may proceed slowly, but it is a large piece of heavy machinery that could inflict personal injury or property damage if it ran into a person or personal or real property.”

Dooley defined a boom lift as “a motorized wheeled machine used to elevate and move workers around building sites” and as “a machine with four wheels and a gas or oil fueled motor. The operator stands in the bucket at the end of the lift arm to engage the motor to travel to the precise position required for work.”

The decision reinstates charges of DUI and driving with a suspended license. Judge Gregory Rainville of Vermont Superior Court in St. Albans had dismissed the case.

A St. Albans police officer arrested Scott at about 1:10 a.m. May 28, 2010, after the cop saw a man later identified as Scott drive the boom lift from the parking lot outside the Franklin County Courthouse to a location across the street, where the lift was to be refueled before that day’s work, Dooley wrote in recounting the case.

Scott had forgotten to move the lift during his workday.

“Suspicions aroused,” Dooley wrote in a five-page opinion, “the officer approached defendant, smelled a strong odor of intoxicants on him, and noticed he was slurring his words and swaying back and forth while standing still.”

A breath test registered a blood alcohol content of 0.203 percent, almost three times the legal limit for driving of 0.08, according to the opinion. Scott was charged, but Rainville ultimately concluded a boom lift was not a “motor vehicle” as defined by Vermont’s DUI statute and dismissed the charges.

State law defines “motor vehicle” as “all vehicles propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power,” and then lists exceptions, including farm tractors, “vehicles running only upon stationary rails or tacks, motorized highway building equipment, road making appliances, snowmobiles, or tracked vehicles or electric personal assistive mobility devices.”

Vermont Defender General Matthew Valerio, acting for Scott, argued that because a boom lift was designed to be used “in a stationary position” and is similar to exceptions to the motor-vehicle definition, the defendant shouldn’t have been charged.

The Supreme Court disagreed, noting that “the facts clearly establish that a boom lift is powered by a motor rather than muscular power” and, so, “falls within the express definition of a motor vehicle.”

“A boom lift is manifestly not a farm tractor” or any of the other listed exceptions, Dooley wrote.

Scott’s attorney argued, however, that the law hadn’t listed all exceptions and was intended to be merely “illustrative.” Because a boom lift’s purpose is not transportation, the defender general argued, it shouldn’t be considered a motor vehicle, any more than a rototiller — also unlisted — should be.

Dooley responded for the Supreme Court by citing the statute and its reference to “all vehicles.”

“The underlying principle,” he wrote, “is that if the Legislature made specific exceptions to the applicability of the provision and also wished to include another exception, it would have explicitly stated the additional exception.”

Deputy Franklin County State’s Attorney Heather Brochu said her office will prosecute the reinstated case against Scott.

If you’re too facing DUI charges in Vermont, it’s time you contacted a Vermont DUI attorney to discuss your legal options.

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Hours After DUI Sentence, Jalen Rose Gets Speeding Ticket

It was a bad day all around for Jalen Rose on Wednesday.

Less than nine hours after leaving a courthouse where he had been sentenced to 20 days in jail for drunken driving, Rose ran afoul of the law again, authorities said Thursday.

Clawson Police Chief Harry Anderson said Rose, 38, was stopped and ticketed for speeding on Main Street, just north of 14 Mile in Clawson, about 8:47 p.m. Wednesday.

“He was stopped heading south on Main — right in front of the Police Department — at 46 miles an hour in a 25-mile zone,” Anderson said. “There were no other violations or problems related to the stop and he was ticketed for going 10 over the speed limit and allowed to go on his way.”

The speeding offense is the equivalent of a civil infraction, said Rose’s attorney, James Burdick.

It will have no bearing on the drunken driving case and is not considered a violation of his probation, the attorney said.

Shortly before noon Wednesday, Rose, a former NBA basketball player who starred at the University of Michigan and Detroit Southwestern High, was sentenced in Bloomfield Hills District Court for a March 11 incident in which he drove his car off a snowy road in West Bloomfield.

Rose will be on probation for 12 months, during which time he must report to a probation officer and attend alcohol awareness counseling, including an alcohol impact group made up of those whose families have been damaged by drunken drivers.

In the March incident, Rose, who said he had consumed six martinis, was found to have a blood-alcohol level of .12, well over the .08 limit at which a motorist is determined drunk in Michigan.

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Former Chicago Bear Cleared of DUI Charges

Cook County prosecutors dismissed drunken-driving charges against WMAQ-Ch. 5 sportscaster and former Chicago Bear Mike Adamle on Friday, saying he was well under the legal limit for alcohol when Evanston police curbed his car during a traffic stop in January.

“I’m extremely grateful I’m done here,” Adamle said outside the Skokie courtroom following the hearing.

Adamle was arrested after authorities said he disobeyed a flashing red traffic signal. Police had said he also exhibited erratic behavior after being taken to the police station, though he registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.04, half the legal limit.

“I couldn’t have been more cooperative,” Adamle said Friday. “I did everything they asked me and then some.”

Adamle said that his arrest and subsequent charges cost him several speaking engagements.

“What they did was really incorrect,” he said.

He also said he was determined to clear his name because an online profile of him included that fact that he had been charged with DUI.

“When you go to Wikipedia and see that under your biography, you have to do something about that,” he said.

Adamle, an Evanston resident, graduated from Northwestern University in 1971 and played for the Bears before retiring in 1977 and going into sports journalism.

He was promoted this week to a full-time sportscaster with the NBC affiliate, said a station representative. The position opened up after sportscaster Daryl Hawks, 38, was found dead in an Atlanta hotel room in May while on assignment.

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