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VT Headlines: DUI lawmaker, Palestinian shooting suspect ‘justice involved’

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VT DiggerDUI arraignment for Bennington lawmaker delayed as he takes part in treatment
WCAXBurlington man accused of shooting 3 Palestinian college students due in court Friday
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WCAXMan arrested after allegations of abusing two children
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  1. can any one get treatment for dui before they face justice///

  2. “Carroll later told VTDigger following his arrest that he declined to take those tests because he had medical conditions that affected his balance.” lol.
    I am very sympathetic to addiction, but also to accountability. I’m curious why a legislator gets a public defender — that is customarily reserved for people who lack finacial resources. Why are taxpayers paying for both the prosecution and defense? Do Vermont citizens get a public defender at his income level, or did he qualify as low-income? And why on earth would the judge bend over backwards to invite a probable cause challenge? Even a child can see this officer had oodles of probable cause…..

    • John, while I am not a lawyer, I am wondering if the probable cause in question has to do with the the DUI charge itself given the BAC levels recorded on the filed device as opposed to the DataMaster(?) device at the station. As for the public defender, I wonder if he was temporarily appointed for the initial arraignment since Carroll
      was at an in-patient treatment center at the time?

      My prediction is that Carroll will hire a private attorney to challenge the BAC readings and either get the case dropped or the charge reduced and a plea agreement. Even the senior forensic chemist stated that Carroll’s actual BAC at the time could have been as low as .076.

      John, as you questioned, I imagine the judge will be more apt rule in favor of a State Rep. Either way, the court of public opinion has already made judgement.

  3. Bill in NEK, as to the possible .076 BAC, one can still get a DUI without meeting the minimum BAC…last I knew anyway.

    • Yes. All the pharmacies I called said they were forbidden by government order, even though I had a prescription. The order to which they referred was (I think) a Vermont Department of Health order, but certain memory escapes me on that detail. The Great War Against Ivermectin, whose developer won a Nobel Prize for HUMAN use as an anti-parasitic, was one of the most deplorable government initiatives of the Covid-19 era. I believe it was motivated by their zeal for universal Covid-19 vaccination. No competition could be tolerated.

    • How is that not manslaughter? Keeping a prescribed potentially lifesaving medicine from from a person?

  5. palestinian shooting suspect/// court appearance/// no trial until next january 2025/// there must more to this case than what is being told/// what needs to be known is the pattern of actives of the three victims for the last two years/// there is a sequence of events that need to be explained///