New MADD Strategy: Shut Down the Lawyers
via DUI Blog, the tyranny bell rings evermore: Senate measure would ban lawyers from DUI advertisingDefense attorneys would be banned from advertising their expertise with drunken driving cases under a bill advancing in the Senate.lawrence taylor:
Sen. Rosalind Kurita, a Clarksville Democrat, successfully added the provision to a bill that would create an online registry of repeat DUI offenders in Tennessee.
Kurita says officials have a hard enough time convicting drunken drivers without lawyers advertising their expertise in the field and offering discounts to DUI defendants. [...]
In another article appearing hours later, Senator Kurita explained her reasoning: “Kurita said she pushed for the amendment because she was tired of suspected DUI offenders not being convicted.”
Imagine that: A citizen accused of a crime who is not convicted. [...]
Labels: douche patrol, mad, monopolistic incompetence, paternalism
posted by saltypig @ 16:17
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