The chart I found only had urine 8-12 days and saliva 24 hours. Blood and hair follicle times could no doubt be found but I figured the two that I did find were more than enough to prove the 5 hour claim was false. I can’t understand why this scoff law, drug addict, and now killer is being protected.
I once found myself at the scene of an accident involving a local executive with significant financial and political influence. His company sent several people to the scene along with numerous wreckers and ambulances and a uniformed company security guard who was retired from the local police department. That retired cop actually took charge of the scene and in the bedlam the drunk executive was hustled off by another security guard and the injured from 2 vehicles were hustled off to the hospital. The young city police officers were left in charge of cleaning up the scene. It would have been an hilarious scene in a movie.
Well, tort lawyers do go after the deep pockets. I hope the victim got a large share of it. It was probably settled without a trial because it was such an open and shut case that the defendant’s lawyers thought it was unwinnable and who knows what a sympathetic jury would have awarded to the plaintiff.
My memory may be a bit flawed after this many years, but I think that a hair follicle test is likely to show somebody’s drug “history” for a period of 3 months. Although our budget was severely restricted, the Deputy AG under whom I worked did order a hair follicle test in certain instances, especially when we believed that somebody had tried to falsify his/her urine test.
But it won’t tell if you were high at the time you were driving, which is the relevant point. I’ve looked at the relevant PA statutes…they’ve got two hours where a test is generally considered valid.
We had a bus driver involved in a serious accident. By the time the cops had arrived, he was conspicuously drinking from a flask, to “clam his nerves about the accident,” and swore he had nothing to drink until AFTER the wreck. He lost his job, and caught a few charges, but NOT DWI, because they couldn’t determine if he had been drunk at the time of the incident.
I always thought the guy was crafty. Dirty, slimy, yes…but, still…
…and after quaffing from that flask, the world was his oyster. 
I’m sorry.
The Devil made me post that comment.
It’s all irrelevant if the perp is politically powerful or judges keep letting the killers out on the streets over and over.
Ted Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, 1969. As long as the system remains that corrupt, nothing will help.
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@VDCdriver Your story about the bus driver drinking from a flask to.calm his nerves reminded me of a story told to me by my college roommate:
A Baptist minister and a Catholic Priest were each driving their cars and.collided at an intersection. Neither clergyman was injured, but the Baptist Minister was pretty shaken up. The Catholic Priest told Baptist.Minister that he had just the thing to calm his.nerves and the Priest produced a bottle from the glove compartment of his car. The Baptist minister protested that he didn’t drink. However, the Priest insisted that it would do the minister good. The.Baptist minister took a sip.and thought it.was.pretty good, so he.took quite a few more nips. Finally, the Baptist Minister said.to.the Priest “You.were involved in the same collision. Aren’t you going.to have.a.belt?’” ’ Oh I am", replied.the Priest but.after the.police investigate the accident".
My college.friend.was.a.preacher’s kid. There are no.college.students.more.wild.than preacher’s.kids.
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Simple solution. Send these people to China. They deal with such people in a totally different manner. 
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He has the same spell checker I do! 
Then, all that I can suggest is that you do your best to…calm your clams!
I seem to remember they execute 
such individuals, and charge the family the price of the bullet 
Yes, I was aware of that, which is why I suggested it. Problem solved. Sorry to gross anyone out.
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You’re not grossing ME out
Unfortunately, there are certain people in this world, that serve absolutely no useful purpose, and in fact only bring misery and hardship to anybody associated with them in any way
Clearly, she brought misery and hardship to the family of that teenager she killed
I wouldn’t doubt if she also caused untold grief for her immediate family, and probably even her extended family, if she has any
Substance abuse is no laughing matter, but this woman was given WAY too many opportunities, and she clearly blew every one of them. At some point, somebody needs to say “That’s it, lady, you’re incorrigible. You’re going to the big house, this time. 20 years to life. Next case!”
Now if she was in China, I wouldn’t doubt it if that aforementioned solution had already taken place, perhaps long ago
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I understand that the Chinese still have a highly STRUCTURED hard labor penal system also. Something that might be a beneficial in this country for some scofflaws.
I feel the sword of damocles like 8 years ago when I got a ticket, 30 license suspensions, hmm may be 31 will teach them a lesson? Then read in the paper people with 8 duis still on the streets, crap was over my 2 beer limit late saturday, got called into work well into happy hour could do what I needed at work, no prob, did a Uber ride, $23 well spent.
Yeah, but the whole “prison economy” has some undesirable incentive structures. Mom told me about growing up in the South, when the Sherriff would round up young, able-bodied black men, just about the time road-resurfacing began…
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I don’t like all the executions. Have you ever heard of Devil’s Island. It is, alas, closed now.
But, I think it was a place where terrible violent criminals were sent. Hey, you live with no regard for the safety of other humans. So, we are putting you in a place where people who are bigger, stronger, and meaner will treat you the way you have treated others. Enjoy.
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Wasn’t Devil’s Island a French penal “colony” . . . ?
I believe there have been several movies, which were supposedly set in Devil’s Island. I know of at least 2, one with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, the other with Humphrey Bogart
I don’t agree with all of the executions, either. Some of the people would have served time, or paid their fines, had they been living in the US. But as I said, I feel some individuals are beyond redemption
Exactly correct. The idea was good, but they got to high handed and started tossing political prisoners there. It’s like vigilantism, the idea is good but always eventually they start killing innocent people.
My objection to Chinese type executions is execution is permanent and there are people whose offenses do not rise to that level. In the case fo the 30 suspensions, it was clear she was going to keep on until she killed someone. And, so it was. I could see popping her long before 30 offenses. Yet, Devil’s Island would solve her problem without death.