Aguirre v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “[I'Jntoxication impairs a person’s judgment. As cognitive skills are eroded by the effects of alcohol, a person may become incapable of recognizing the impairment of his own mental and physical facilities. After consuming alcohol, many drivers assert that their ability to operate a motor vehicle is actually improved when they reach a condition which to sober witnesses amounts to intoxication.... If the offense of driving while intoxicated carried with it the burden of establishing a culpable mental state, the most inebriated and dangerous drivers would escape conviction by virtue of their diminished capacity to formulate a criminal intent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanders v. State