{"id":2959,"date":"2011-06-16T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2011-06-16T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:03:35","slug":"the_laws_majest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"The Law’s Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled this week that driving around in a wheelchair or scooter while drunk is not a criminal offense<\/a>. The court overturned a man’s DWI conviction because the scooter he was operating does not meet the definition of a motor vehicle according to state statute.<\/p>\n

This decision is important for two reasons: <\/p>\n

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  1. It demonstrates that our legal system is still capable of achieving true justice.  <\/li>\n
  2. It means that I can start planning my post-layoff drunken binge without fear of legal repercussions. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled this week that driving around in a wheelchair or scooter while drunk is not a criminal offense. The court overturned a man’s DWI conviction because the scooter he was operating does not meet the definition of a motor vehicle according to state statute. This decision is important for two […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}