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Thursday, September 20, 2012 News worth sharing.
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Man beats DUI rap with spiked drink defence
Case dismissed. Judge ruled it was plausible someone slipped a substance into his drink A man charged with impaired driving was acquitted on Wednesday, even though he blew three times the legal limit, after a judge accepted his argument that someone may have spiked his drink with a drug when he went out for a smoke. Christopher Sitarz, 34, said the ruling came as a relief. “Watch your drinks. That’s all I can say.” Sitarz was driving the wrong way on Adelaide Street West, in the Entertainment District, last Feb. 12, when police stopped his car in the middle of the street. An offi-
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Three times the limit
• At the police station
Christopher Sitarz blew 230 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood. The legal limit for driving is 80 mg.
• He testified he intended
to order three or four drinks, following the “one drink per hour” rule, the judge said.
cer noticed Sitarz had “a dead stare,” provincial court Justice Kathleen Caldwell wrote in her ruling. Sitarz smelled strongly of alcohol, his eyes were bloodshot and he was unsteady on his feet. Sitarz, a petroleum contractor, testified he had driven
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from Schomberg, Ont., to a speed-dating event downtown. He ordered a vodka Red Bull and said he was fairly sure he later ordered a second drink. He remembered virtually nothing else about the evening, Caldwell said. Sitarz argued his voluntary consumption of alcohol was minimal, and that someone may have slipped a drug into his drink when he left the bar for a smoke. Caldwell found Sitarz raised a reasonable doubt that his impairment flowed from a voluntary act. “It is reasonably plausible that a substance was slipped into his drink which so affected his cognitive abilities that his subsequent alcohol consumption was no longer voluntary,” the judge wrote. torstar news service
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