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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems odd, unless he was stumbling or neighbors complained about under age drinking, that they would approach a person who is not attempting to drive and give them a breathalyzer??[/quote]

OP here; this is exactly what we thought.  He wasn’t driving (doesn’t even have a car at school) and was simply leaving the house.  While we fully accept the fact that he had been drinking, he was not disorderly or bothering anyone.  And he wasn’t even in “public”  until he stepped out of the house.  Seems like a warning would have been a lot more appropriate.[/quote]

In states where public intoxication is a crime, a police officer can arrest a person who is intoxicated and take the person to jail (or, sometimes, to a hospital or treatment center) until the person is no longer intoxicated. The police just have to allow a call in a reasonable time and they might have allowed the call but he did not use it or called someone else. Also the police have done this before. I am sure they have arrested college students at a house party before. So you should hire a lawyer to argue these things(ie no phone call, was he in a public area, etc). Public Intoxication is a misdemeanor and some states it is not criminal. What state did this occur?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_intoxication#State_public_intoxication_laws_today[/quote]

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