{"id":24698,"date":"2012-10-24T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/bad-day-driving-drinking\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:21:59","slug":"bad-day-driving-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/bad-day-driving-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day of Driving Then Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of one of the greatest home runs in baseball history, thirty-seven years ago Sunday, was arrested for DUI\/OUI\/DWI on Monday, October 24th. Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk, a god to Red Sox fans like me after his homerun in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, was arrested in New Lenox, Illinois, refused to take a breath test and had an open bottle of vodka in the truck which was located in a cornfield.<\/p>\n<p>If you are sitting in your vehicle in the middle of a cornfield and are charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/southern-maine-oui-dui-attorneys-near-me-under-influence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DWI\/OUI\/DUI here in Maine<\/a>, you need to consult with a lawyer to help defend your case. How will the DAs Office prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt? Operation of a motor vehicle is an element of the crime that must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Was there actual operation? Did the driver admit to operation? In Maine, operation requires a person to either have power or attempt to put power to the wheels. 29-A M.R.S. \u00a7 2401(6); State v. Sullivan 146 ME 381 (1951). Is the vehicle in park, or was it in gear with the driver\u2019s foot on the brake?<\/p>\n<p>How will the government overcome the subsequent drinking issue? If there is an open bottle of liquor in the vehicle with the driver, how will they prove that any alcohol onboard the driver wasn\u2019t consumed post-accident? Do they even know how long the driver was sitting in the cornfield?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/bad-day-driving-drinking\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading A Bad Day of Driving Then Drinking\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of one of the greatest home runs in baseball history, thirty-seven years ago Sunday, was arrested for DUI\/OUI\/DWI on Monday, October 24th. 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