Article: Judge won't enforce law on seat belts

AP
The Columbian
05-22-2003
MOUNT VERNON (AP) A Skagit County Superior Court judge has refused to enforce the state's seat belt law, finding it too vague.
That decision also led the judge to dismiss drug and weapons charges filed in the same case.
Judge Susan Cook ruled that the seat belt law is unconstitutionally vague because it refers to federal safety standards regarding which vehicles must be equipped with seat belts.
"This statute fails to inform the average citizen of the location or legal citation of the federal standard it adopts," she wrote in a letter outlining her decision to suppress evidence gathered as the result of a traffic stop in the case against a ...

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