# DUI question: would this fool the judge/police?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 27, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dui-question-would-this-fool-the-judge-police/645273 "2012-12-27T13:34:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dui-question-would-this-fool-the-judge-police/645273/35 "2012-12-31T23:16:38Z")

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If I were on the jury in a dui/vehicular manslaughter case, the defendant’s claim that he had downed a six-pack immediately after the accident would make me _more_ likely to convict him, not less–_even if he had multiple witnesses to his having drunk those beers_. The fact that his immediate reaction to [del]such an accident[/del] such a crash was to drink would make me think he had already been imbibing too much and probably did so habitually.

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