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Former FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told reporters he bears no ill will against the police officer who arrested him for driving while intoxicated in December, after a Fairfax, Va., judge ruled May 10 that the traffic stop was made on a “mere hunch,” and without just cause.

Legal system is JK.
 
Being on the wrong side? Heck, that was just an illusion from the cops vantage point. We all make mistakes! Now were is that bar everyone has been talking about?
 
FAIRFAX, Va. — A judge on Thursday tossed out drunken driving charges against the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration after seeing video of the traffic stop and ruling that the officer had no legitimate reason to stop the driver.
Randy Babbitt, 65, resigned his post in December after news of his arrest became public.


At a trial Thursday, General District Judge Ian O’Flaherty dismissed the case after seeing video that showed Babbitt making what appeared to be a normal left turn into a parking lot, even though the officer had said that Babbitt had been driving on the wrong side of the road.


Looks like he was saved by the dash cam?
 
According to the new FAA medical criteria, it only matters that you got ARRESTED for DUI. Innocence doesn't come into play.

How ironic.
 
So...did he fail the DUI test? But got let go on the video evidence that he should have never been pulled over to begin with?
Or did he not submit to the test? (a pilot no-no)
And why did he resign if he was innocent?
 
So, according to the judge it would have been better to let him keep driving until he killed or just hurt someone and then arrest him?
 

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