Even sleeping in your car can be DUI. David Euchner is a Pima County Public Defender. i guess this re-enforces my statement that the DUI are more often about raising revenue for the government then they are for public safety! To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com From: "maywood2008" gonzolawyer@comcast.net Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:51:30 -0000 Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Re: now you actually have to be driving the car to get busted for drunk driving - at least in wisconson --- In lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com, mike ross <getlibdis@...> wrote: > > i have read about people in arizona being arrested for > drunk driving for just being drunk in a parked car on > private property with the motor running. at least the > cops cant shake people down for this in wisconson any > more. In Arizona, you can be charged with DUI not merely for driving, but for being in "actual physical control" of a vehicle. We routinely see cases prosecuted where a guy is too drunk to drive home so he sleeps it off in his car. He has the keys in his pocket and he's behind the wheel, so he's in actual physical control. It's a load of crap, but the prosecutors routinely sell it to the jury (who does not always convict in cases such as this). David Euchner