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So if a diabetic woman suffers from low blood sugar, runs a red light and gets into an accident... she is guilty of failure to obey and should lose here licences? That's BS, and a sympathetic jury would have no part of it. I stopped paying attention to the speedometer. I wasn't a schizophrenic doing donuts on the interstate.<br />
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So if a diabetic woman suffers from low blood sugar, runs a red light and gets into an accident... she is guilty of failure to obey and should lose here licences? That's BS, and a sympathetic jury would have no part of it. I stopped paying attention to the speedometer. I wasn't a schizophrenic doing donuts on the interstate.<br />
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I think we are all over looking the obvious here. Medical incidents do cause traffic violations. People missing legs require special equipment. How do deaf people know that an ambulance is coming behind them? People with cardiac problems have heart attacks and strokes that cause accidents that actually harm people. I could go on for ever about medical issues that are not banned from driving. I never hurt anyone. I simply neglected to monitor my speed.
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Fewer than 5% of people cited for traffic violations NATIONWIDE prevail in court.<br />
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In Texas, traffic offenses are tried in municipal or JP courts.<br />
Those courts aren't courts of record.<br />
JPs are paid a percentage of the fines and fees they collect.<br />
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You can receive a SIX person jury trial in JP and Muni courts.<br />
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You'll be surprised when you attempt to have such a trial.<br />
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I offered you TWO easy, cheap sure fired ways to get this citation tossed.<br />
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As far as PTSD, I spent four consecutive years in combat, trudging the boonies, rain forests, and jungles of SE Asia from the age of 18 to 22 as an Army Ranger.<br />
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I've never allowed that experience or what I encountered over there to define me.<br />
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I won't tell you how to live your life, other than to tell you, no one but my mother, father, and wife gave a monkey crap about what I experienced.<br />
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My dad cared because he spent 3 1/2 years fighting in Africa, Italy, D-Day, and was with Patton as they stormed across Europe.<br />
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Back in my day, no one VA included, Army either, gave much thought to what one encounters after combat.<br />
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That goes for my dad, too, after WWII ended.<br />
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My dad was DRAFTED in Spring of 1941.<br />
He learned that day in Dec 1941 that he'd be in the Army for the duration.<br />
Draftees are the only soldiers or sailors who ever had a beef.<br />
The rest of us, myself included, volunteered.<br />
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I spent 30 years in the Army, retiring.<br />
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You have to make your own peace, brother.<br />
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The country, especially the legal system doesn't care.<br />
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I wish you peace, brother.</div>
