Legal Question in DUI Law in Texas

Dwi passanger law

If driver is arrested for dwi, and passager is too drunk to drive what happens to the passanger?


Asked on 8/09/08, 8:50 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Bristol Myers Bristol Myers & Associates, P.C.

Re: Dwi passanger law

If the cops are cool, passengers get a friend or cab to take them home. Otherwise, passenger goes to jail for public intoxication. Sometimes passengers are cited for public intoxication as a means of discrediting them (it's just a ticket and they usually just pay the fine) as a potential defense witness in the DWI trial for the driver.

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Answered on 8/10/08, 12:23 am


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