FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (of interest to editors covering: Legal/Law, New York Business) Long Island Jury Acquits Intoxicated Defendant Finding He Did Not Operate His Car HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 26, 2009 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A Long Island jury found Bernie Kompancaril not guilty of all charges today saying that the state failed to prove that Mr. Kompancaril was operating his car in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 2006. Long Island attorney Bruce L. Roistacher, who represented Mr. Kompancaril, argued that it's not illegal to drink in a parked car in a parking lot if the driver has no present intention to drive or operate his car. Despite police testimony to the contrary, the jury found that the defendant was merely parked in a parking lot in New Hyde Park, N.Y. with four friends, drinking in his car, with no intention to drive or operate it. They also found that the defendant's keys were not in the ignition of his BMW and that he did not move his car. Mr. Roistacher challenged the observations of the police officers and argued that the defendant's keys were not in the ignition and that the radio and windows worked without the keys in place. In a rare legal maneuver, Mr. Roistacher had the jury inspect Mr. Kompancaril's car in the courthouse parking lot. "The jury inspection of Bernie's car apparently led to the very quick verdict of Not Guilty, they applied the strict definition of 'operation' in the context of a DWI," said Roistacher. All trademarks and service marks are the property of the respective parties. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2009. NEWS SOURCE: Law Offices of Bruce L. Roistacher # # # // RELEASE END // MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info below not for publication online or in print ] Bruce L. Roistacher Law Offices of Bruce L. Roistacher +1-516-935-9090 blr418 @ rcn.com //Notes to editors: * Copies of supporting court documents may be requested from the above media contact. ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2009-05-0526-006.txt Release PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2009-05-0526-006.pdf Get our full-text news via RSS: http://www.Send2Press.com/RSS2/rss.xml RSS feeds by news topic: http://feeds.send2press.com/idx_RSS.shtml Add our news to your blog or website automatically: http://feeds.send2press.com/ ......... Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a service of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com/ ......... MAY 2009 Press Release / PRT = / S-ST US=NY / pre = / ytv = / agency = / keywords =