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Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 | 1:21 p.m.
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A 26-year-old woman was arrested in connection with drunken driving after an accident Sunday morning critically injured a teen pedestrian in the western valley.
Metro Police said the accident happened at 5:08 a.m. on Spring Mountain Road, west of El Camino Road.
Police said it appears Noel Lardeo was driving a 2005 Acura TSX west on Spring Mountain Road when she failed to maintain her travel lane and drove off the right side of the road.
The Acura collided with a bus shelter and struck a 15-year-old boy waiting nearby, police said.
The boy was transported to University Medical Center’s trauma unit in critical condition, police said. Lardeo and her passenger, 36-year-old Artemio Rios, did not report injuries, police said.
Lardeo allegedly failed a standard field sobriety test and was arrested. Charges include one count of DUI resulting in substantial bodily harm, one count of failure to stop at an intersection, one count of no registration in vehicle, two counts of no driver’s license in possession and one count of open container in vehicle while driving, according to Clark County Detention Center records.
Jail records indicate Lardeo is being held without bail. Her first court appearance is scheduled for Monday.
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6 counts of stupid
"Charges include one count of DUI resulting in substantial bodily harm, one count of failure to stop at an intersection, one count of no registration in vehicle, two counts of no driver's license in possession and one count of open container in vehicle while driving..."
No cell phone?
"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically." -- Henry David Thoreau 1849 "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
By all means give her a speedy trial. Then let her shovel snow up in Northern Nevada for the next 25 years. The prison up there gets mighty old in the winter. She should only rot up there in prison.
Bad news; good news! The bad news? The 26-year-old woman was stupid to drive under the influence. The good news? They've locked her away and we're all safer for it.
With all that against her she'll probably get off with fines, school, and probation. I hate our lax DUI laws. We need laws like Sweden. Driving is NOT a right, it's a privilege.
poor wannabe doesnt have any panache driving an '05 acura. no wonder she got drunk. i hope the teenager lives to see the day this woman gets out of jail 25 years from now.
"Driving is NOT a right, it's a privilege."
Vorpalblade -- wrong. Since it's the only way one is able to use the public right of way for travel, the real question becomes what would be the state's compelling interest to bar a member of that public from using it. That puts the state on thin ice Constitutionally.
"The right to travel is a part of the "liberty" of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment...In Anglo-Saxon law that right was emerging at least as early as the Magna Carta...Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values. See Crandall v. Nevada, 6 Wall. 35...Our nation...has thrived on the principle that, outside areas of plainly harmful conduct, every American is left to shape his own life as he thinks best, do what he pleases, go where he pleases...Freedom to travel is, indeed, an important aspect of the citizen's "liberty." -- Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116, 125-7 (1958)
killerb; no founding fathers quotes?
"killerb; no founding fathers quotes?"
dipstick -- I'm taking you at face value here, so don't mess it up. Since our state Constitution expressly defers to the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of Constitutional rights, cases like Kent v. Dulles and Shapiro v. Thompson are far more relevant.
Look at the charges Ms. Laredo was arrested for. They include "one count of no registration in vehicle, two counts of no driver's license in possession." Those don't square with our Constitution's charge "to secure [freedom's] blessings, insure domestic tranquility, and form a more perfect Government" and Article 1, Section 1's Inalienable Rights Clause. Those are the source code for all Nevada laws.
I invite you to have a look at the state laws on vehicle registration. They're designed as a trap for all Nevada vehicle owners. As I discovered last summer, unless buying a car from a state-approved dealer, these laws require every one of us to essentially buy and sell in the parking lots of open DMV offices.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry
killerb; whatever it takes to get the drunk drivers, the reckless, the cell phones users and 12 year olds off the streets and highways, im all for. if it goes against some time worn saw uttered by some old plantation owner hundreds of years ago, so much the better.
"...whatever it takes to get the drunk drivers, the reckless, the cell phones users and 12 year olds off the streets and highways, im all for."
dipstick -- the first two are legitimate, the others show how utterly clueless you are about what it means to be a citizen. Equality so long as it favors you and your narrow views is how your post boils down. I thought as much. You won't be suckering me again.
"...a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law." -- Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 177 (1803)
@Killerb: I'm not a lawyer, and perhaps you might be, BUT there IS a difference between the right to travel and the PRIVILEGE to drive.
You might think your dissertation of court cases impress readers of comments here. You're only fooling/impressing yourself.
This young woman may lose her PRIVILEGE to drive, but it won't keep her off the road. Perhaps a better punishment would be for her to be the servant of the person she injured as well as to pay (from her OWN pocket) the damages incurred by the family and future possible earnings of the injured.
"I'm not a lawyer, and perhaps you might be, BUT there IS a difference between the right to travel and the PRIVILEGE to drive."
BOMAC -- nope, just a guy who can think and read. I also see although you put down my "dissertation of court cases" you offered nothing to counter or distinguish either the cases or Constitutional clauses supporting my opinion.
Nothing I posted here implies this accused is not a menace to everyone else on the public right of way. Her recklessness and self-impaired condition have nothing to do with whether or not she was licensed and her vehicle registered. Whatever the charges she's ultimately convicted of, it's obvious she's another one of those predators among us who conduct themselves as if she can do whatever she wants to whomever she wants -- perhaps because someone else thought she was hot and covered for her. Meantime that scheme of laws does little public good except for the revenue -- if that can be really called "good."
"The struggle for liberty has been a struggle against Government. The essential scheme of our Constitution and Bill of Rights was to take Government off the backs of people." -- Columbia Broadcasting Sys., Inc. v. Democratic Nat'l Comm., 412 U.S. 94, 162 (1973), Justice Douglas concurring