People very often are not charged when double the legal limit. People very often get charged when below because the field sobriety tests are designed to be both confusing and difficult to do for even the most sober person. I have zero faith in the field test in general from fallacies like I pointed out before. Also include that with the incentive that police have to have arrest and conviction records to proceed in their careers.
It is really easy to defend these collection methods until you have to fight them on wrongful convictions.
People very often are not charged when double the legal limit
I don't believe that's true.
As much as sobriety tests are flawed, he failed at least 3 total. It's fairly obvious when someone is naturally uncoordinated vs impaired.
I hope audio or video surfaces to bring more substance. But blowing 0.075+ twice is more than a fluke.
Furthermore, texas cops aren't the first people I would suspect of trying to smear someone like Alex Jones.
We currently do prosecute and convict people who are below the legal limit. O.08 is more of a guideline then an absolute, as everyone has different physiology and thus are impacted by inebriation in different ways.
This, combined with the failed field test is pretty damming evidence.
Ignoring the fact that you would have to heat pounds upon pounds of hemp to achieve a detectable amount of THC. We always have and still do convict people over incredibly nominal amounts. For most of history it's been a pass/fail test with no discrimination over actual amounts.