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To: combjelly who wrote (133124)	2/19/2001 3:37:11 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580486

combjelly... " depends on the state. They have have changed it recently, but in Texas the difference between DWI and DUI was the intoxicating substance. Other states have DUI as a "reasonable" amount, a chancy definition at best." Whenever there is any substance involved most states will give you multiple tickets. One for DWI if you blow over their limit, and a second for DUI just in case you beat the DWI in court then they have you on the DUI. Ultimately you are only charged with one when you plead guilty or no contest to either. True drugs will also fall under DUI, but so will alcohol if the amount is under their DWI limits. "Oh, found this while researching DUI. Looks like there were some "unusual" considerations granted Smirk when he got arrested..." I'm not saying this is not true, but it is pure conjecture. These are not facts. Where are we going with this anyway? The man has a disease and now abstains for alcohol. Should we lock him up for life because of this disease and the DUI he had many years ago? I think it's admirable that he is a reformed alcoholic. Once you are an alcoholic you are always an alcoholic. The difference being a reformed alcoholic, one that stops drinking, and an active alcoholic, one that continues to drink and abuse alcohol. I knows a alcoholic that spends 4 hours each day in a bar drinking beer and doesn't think he has a problem.