The Scarlet LetterS - "DUI"
If you think we have it bad here in DC, take a look around the country and see what may be coming if we are not careful. In Arizona, on proscutor's office has gone so far as setting up a website that publishes the photos of person's convicted of DUI. If you are unlucky enough to be convicted of Felony DUI, your face may even appear on a billboard along the highway. Would this type of program be accepted if the offense was anything but DUI?
I just have a few questions:
(1) Where are the funds that support this coming from?
(2) Is this a seperation of powers issue?
(3) Is is appropriate for the executive branch to make up and enhance its own penalties where the legislature has not acted? and
(4) What the .... are they thinking and how could they believe that their conduct is even remotely acceptable?
Take a look at the original article and see the writing on the wall. Defense attorneys' must remain on guard to prevent this mentality from migrating the the "Capitol of the Free world."
The original article can be found at: