State v. Waters

OPINION OF THE COURT

WILLIAM W. HERRING, County Judge.

“DUI Bicycle”; it sounds like the name of a movie (in a genré similar to “D.C. Cab” or “Murder by Death”, perhaps) or maybe a new heavy metal rock group with a music video on MTV. Does the phrase have a dramatic, resonant legal quality? Hardly. Yet that purportedly criminal charge confronted the undersigned judge in magistrate first-appearance hearings on May 4th. The Court dismissed the charge, determining that the gray, Huffy bicycle, ridden by the Defendant Waters in the early morning hours that day, was and is not a “vehicle” within the…