I kind of like Turkey. Any reason we couldn't make a probationer walk from the bar where he was drinking to his home as a condition of probation? Maybe twice a year? I think that might be rehabilitative in nature.
Well, I spent 6 years in England as the head of 2 Air Force legal offices, and a full-time British civil servant worked in my office as our police liaison officer. I can assure you there is no "mandatory" sentence given out to every drunk driver in England. One of the worst aspects of the judicial system in England is its pansy-dansy leniency with almost all criminal offenders. In magistrate's court, the magistrates seemed to apologize for sentencing the hoodlums to miniscule sentences.
I also spent 7 years in Turkey (4 separate assignments) and part of my job was to get our guys out of Turkish police stations and Turkish jails for DWI, traffic accidents, etc. I always had at least one Turkish attorney who was a full-time, US employee. Again, in 7 years, I never heard of a forced 20 mile hike. I won't say it never happened, but if it did, it was an exception.
Ok, so the list is probably a figment of someone's imagination but what would you choose as the most appropriate punishment? Of course, the list is not intended to be exhaustive; it's just illustrative of some of the possible options.
In Alfred Hitchcock's "North by NorthWest" which came out in 1959 (I think) the hero, played by Jimmy Stewart, get's wrongly charged with DWI. He had to pay a fine of $2.50.
Apparently, DWI was not always the Big Deal it is today.
