This has happned to me on several occasions.
The other night I hook a guy for DWI. As I'm getting my affidavit approved I'm told that he has several suspensions on his DL (which I knew), and I needed to file DWLI. I didn't want to. The guy had 7 priors for DWLI on his CCH, what's another one going to do?
The other night a guy had a weed pipe on him and I had another good charge already (class A mids.). I submitted the pipe just because it was evidence and I didn't care to file other charges (and the jail hates when we instanter for class C and county charges at the same time). I was told that since it was submitted into evidence it needed to be filed as well (which isn't true). The guy was nice, 19 years old and I already had a good charge on him. I'm not the officer to just stack as many as I can on people. I'm all about giving people breaks, especially when they're cooperating, with no history like this kid.
Would you say something to your Sgt. or just go with the flow? I'm not one to buck the system, and I do what I'm told.
The other night I hook a guy for DWI. As I'm getting my affidavit approved I'm told that he has several suspensions on his DL (which I knew), and I needed to file DWLI. I didn't want to. The guy had 7 priors for DWLI on his CCH, what's another one going to do?
The other night a guy had a weed pipe on him and I had another good charge already (class A mids.). I submitted the pipe just because it was evidence and I didn't care to file other charges (and the jail hates when we instanter for class C and county charges at the same time). I was told that since it was submitted into evidence it needed to be filed as well (which isn't true). The guy was nice, 19 years old and I already had a good charge on him. I'm not the officer to just stack as many as I can on people. I'm all about giving people breaks, especially when they're cooperating, with no history like this kid.
Would you say something to your Sgt. or just go with the flow? I'm not one to buck the system, and I do what I'm told.
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