[SOC] Honorary member?

[Reicher, James]

This guy deserves an honorary membership!


73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO



Man Shows Up Drunk for His Hearing 




READING, Pa. - A motorist's bail was revoked when police said he had the
daring to show up drunk to his preliminary hearing on drunken driving
charges. 

Emerson Moore Jr., 46, of Caernarvon Township, was awaiting his hearing
before Muhlenberg Township District Justice Dean R. Patton when Moore
got into an argument with state police Trooper Roberto Soto, officials
said. 

Soto, who had arrested Moore in the drunken-driving case June 20,
smelled alcohol on Moore's breath as the two stood in the hallway
outside Patton's courtroom, officials said. 

Moore, who had driven himself to court, had a blood-alcohol level of
0.10 percent, police said. The legal limit for driving in Pennsylvania
is 0.08 percent. 

Patton revoked Moore's bail and sent him to Berks County Prison on
$2,500 bail. He also will be cited for public drunkenness, he said. 

"You don't show up drunk for a preliminary hearing, especially when it's
a drunk-driving case," Patton said. "I asked him what he was thinking
and he said, 'You told me I could drink at home.'"