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PositionCase of drunk teenager - Brief Article

This is not a misprint: A teenager is suing the city of Bradenton, Florida, because police did not arrest him for public drunkenness.

The attorney for Richard Garcia says that in February 1999, Richard, then 16, was obviously intoxicated when police encountered him trying to sneak into a girl's window and told him to drive home. If instead they had arrested him for public intoxication, the lawsuit claims, he wouldn't have been driving with a blood-alcohol...

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