Walk It Through: The Graduation Party
A class D misdemeanor to possess, a sealed can that need not be opened, and two hundredths at the wheel.
Officers find an underage guest at a graduation party holding a sealed can.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One party and a stop on the way home. Visible intoxication, the culinary student exception, and how the hearing runs are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.