(In)Justice in Ketchikan.

Time to get a wee bit serious here at the Coffeeshop. I am quite displeased with the DA's office here in Ketchikan. We recently had two major animal cruelty cases that were not prosecuted. One, because the suspect was a witness in another crime and was given a deal and left the State. The other because the suspect fled to Canada. Apparently, out of sight is out of mind as far as our DA is concerned. Yet, one of our locals was arrested for DUI at Wardstock, even after blowing 0.00 FOUR times and not having any illicit drugs in his system either. Harold had a court date today and the prosecution did not show up. His case should be dismissed at that point, don't you think? Wrong. Apparently the prosecution can just not show up and your case just gets postponed. I assure you that if Harold and his attorney had not shown, he would have been held in contempt of court; probably would have a warrant issued for his arrest. At an administrative hearing I once had, the arresting officer did not show and no evidence was submitted (lucky me), which saved me a lot of khakha pue pue. Basically the hearing was thrown out. This was in Dallas county, Texas. I just don't understand why Harold's case was not dismissed.

I have heard of people being arrested and charged with DUI when they are stone cold sober, blow 0.00 and are just tired. Arguably, being tired does impair your reflexes, but there is no law on the books that says it is unlawful to drive under the influence of fatigue. And how exactly would you go about measuring how fatigued someone is? How do you quantify it? You really can't. I wish Harold all the best. I sincerely hope his case gets dismissed. If it doesn't, I will have lost any faith I had in the Ketchikan justice system.