Unbelievable as it may sound, I got a DUI in Bibb County, GA without a car.
It's true. I went to a place of business to retrieve personal property from an employee. He worked at a body shop and was supposed to be doing some work on my motorcycle "on the side." After waiting seven weeks and discovering no work had been done on my bike, I went to retrieve the key so I could have the work done elsewhere.
I was standing in the parking lot waiting for him to return with the key when a police car drove up. I later discovered the employee had complained that I had harassed him and the manager called the police, although nobody had said anything to me or asked me to leave the premises.
The officer, Officer Scarborough, asked me to submit to a roadside sobriety test. I've no idea why. I wasn't driving, wasn't in a car, and did not even have a vehicle in the parking lot. I had arrived on foot. My motorcycle was supposedly being worked on just around the corner.
Since I had no desire to be a roadside spectacle, I refused, whereupon Officer Scarborough placed me undeer arrest for DUI.
The prosecutor, I was later told, had recently won some kind of award for the high level of DUI convictions achieved or some such, so I guess she was full of herself and, despite the facts of the case, decided to prosecute.
In court, Officer Scarborough testified that he did not see me driving a motor vehicle but he produced a witness who testified that he had seen me driving. The witness also testified that he had stopped working a the place of business where the incident occurred a month before the incident.
Nobody could place me in a motor vehicle, there was no sobriety test, and the only witness wasn't there.
Nevertheless, I was convicted of DUI.
Yes, I had a lawyer; Mike Cranford of Macon, GA., who did not challenge the witness and did not challenge Officer Scarborough's testimony or his report, which was full of falsehoods and which contradicted his own testimony.
Macon, GA, which is in Bibb County, is the home of the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The city would like tourists to visit the town, but I certainly would not recommend it. The police are dishonest thugs whose only job is to arrest, the prosecutor's overzealously seek only to pad their own reputations, and the judges are blind to any facts other than the testimony of the police officers.
No wonder the unofficial tourist slogan of Middle Georgia is; "Come on vacation, leave on probation."
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