Chicago DUI Attorneys Examine Unique DUI Defense: DUI Defendant Claims That He Is His Own Country

We understand that there are a lot of ways to defend DUI charges but even our Chicago DUI Lawyers have never heard of this: a man accused of DUI claimed that he is his own Country and cannot be charged with DUI.

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DUI Defendant Claims He Is His Own Country

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Associated Press DUI News

EASTON, Pa. — A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he’s his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old Scott Allan Witmer filed with the court claiming sovereignty, a Northampton County judge said Tuesday he cannot be released from jail until he gets a mental exam.

Witmer, who represented himself, said he believes police lack jurisdiction to pull him over. As he said in court: “I live inside myself, not in Pennsylvania.” He said there is no victim in the crime and asked to go to trial.

Defense attorney James Connell, Witmer’s standby counsel, said a challenge to the traffic stop would need to be filed as a pretrial motion.

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