Sentence examples for drinking charge from inspiring English sources

It is common for a state underage drinking charge to be downgraded to a municipal ordinance violation in order for the defendant to avoid a criminal record and a suspended license.

There is a "good samaritan" defense to an underage drinking charge – if an underage drinker calls for medical help for another underage drinker who is ill, and cooperates with law enforcement and medical responders, neither may be prosecuted.

On New Year's Eve, the Harrison police raided a party held in three hotel rooms and arrested 26 teenagers from Port Chester and Rye Brook on drinking charges.

Jenna pleaded no contest last month to under-age drinking charges in a separate incident and was ordered to undergo alcohol counseling and perform community service.

– Fergus, 68 "We would have a lot less underage drinking problems if we lowered the drinking age to 18. Young adults are getting targeted at parties and social events at universities where police know there will be alcohol and the people who are there and under 21 get underage drinking charges (and people over 21 get charged with the supply of alcohol to minor).

The statute of limitations for both state and municipal underage drinking charges is one year.

As it is, they'll get hit with underage drinking charges and have to pay for whatever putative damage said buggy did to said squad car.

Ford had been arrested that September on DUI and underage drinking charges, but that didn't seem to be what the officers were concerned about.

Any smaller and your chugging partners will be cracking open the next brew while you're busy daintily drinking your charge.

When Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was arrested on drunken-drinking charges in Nebraska last autumn, a police tape recorded him discussing Berra with the trooper.

A New Year's Eve party that ended with the arrests of 26 teenagers on under-age-drinking charges was held in three hotel rooms rented by a man whose son drowned six years ago after a night of drinking in Manhattan, the authorities said today.