Jonathan Toews

[zrez 0]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=196341&hubname=nhl

how do u plead not guilty? Convice them u werent in the bar and u werent arrested?

[hockeymom 2]

Pleading is different than sentencing. Essentially, pleading not guilty starts the legal process.

[Chadd 916]

A conviction may cause a problem with his scholarship. By pleading not guilty it may delay the case long enough for the frozen four to be completed. Then he can go play for the Blackhawks.

[willy0314 0]

you plea not guilty because it opens the door for you to take a deal and get convicted of a lesser charge. If he just plead guilty, he would have got hit with a stiffer penalty then what hes going to end up with.

[Vapor 0]

Are there really laws like this in other states? Or better yet, they actually enforce this crap? I can see not letting him drink, but merely being in a bar is an offense? Around here you would just get kicked out of the bar.

[Juice_Slowjamz 0]

He'll plead down. Trust me.

[Chadd 916]

Are there really laws like this in other states? Or better yet, they actually enforce this crap? I can see not letting him drink, but merely being in a bar is an offense? Around here you would just get kicked out of the bar.

College town in the midwest with no real crime, what do you expect?

[Hordie Gowe 17]

These charges are nothing but easy money for the city, plain and simple.

[Viking 1]

Are there really laws like this in other states? Or better yet, they actually enforce this crap? I can see not letting him drink, but merely being in a bar is an offense? Around here you would just get kicked out of the bar.

College town in the midwest with no real crime, what do you expect?

What I'm sure he expected - that it's a college town, so who cares if one more out of thousands of college kids goes to a bar?... When I first read the headline "Jonathan Toews Arrested" when the story came out, I thought he had killed someone or something. My only reaction when I read the story was "... that's it?!" What kind of a non-crime is that to arrest someone for? He should have claimed diplomatic immunity or something because he's from Manitoba, and the legal drinking age there is 18.

[thejackal 46]

Are there really laws like this in other states? Or better yet, they actually enforce this crap? I can see not letting him drink, but merely being in a bar is an offense? Around here you would just get kicked out of the bar.

College town in the midwest with no real crime, what do you expect?

What I'm sure he expected - that it's a college town, so who cares if one more out of thousands of college kids goes to a bar?... When I first read the headline "Jonathan Toews Arrested" when the story came out, I thought he had killed someone or something. My only reaction when I read the story was "... that's it?!" What kind of a non-crime is that to arrest someone for? He should have claimed diplomatic immunity or something because he's from Manitoba, and the legal drinking age there is 18.

diplomatic immunity? LOL

this must suck for him and his family. on the other hand the city and the media must be having a field day.

[Viking 1]

That's the closest thing I could think of to immunity to the law on the grounds that it's completely stupid.

[mack 44]

Laws are laws but I would take Bina on my team any day after he tried to open the car doors up to get teammates out.

[Viking 1]

I just looked this up because this thread made me curious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

It appears that the U.S. is one of very few non-Arab countries with a legal drinking age over 18. Also - not just because of this, but remind me not to raise my kids in Haiti.

[kosydar 0]

Also noteworthy- http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

[Viking 1]

I must say I'm a little confused about Haiti's stance there... Is it okay to have sex with a six year old there if they get drunk first?