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A drunk driving case in Northville, Mich., had to be decided by the state’s Supreme Court after lower courts couldn’t agree on Gino Rea’s guilt, despite the fact that his blood alcohol was measured at three times the legal limit. Police officers who responded to a complaint of loud music watched Rea driving in and out of his garage, but he never actually drove onto the street. The Supreme Court ruled that constituted drunk driving on the grounds that he was driving in a place that met the law’s requirement: a place that is “open to the public or generally accessible to motor vehicles.” The former may not be the case, but the “or” clearly makes the latter a prohibited place to drive drunk. (RC/WDIV Detroit, MLive) ...Pretty much any place is “accessible” to a car if you ram into it hard enough.