Sportsfrog.com

Something about this one doesn’t feel right, though. The details:

“McNair was a passenger in his vehicle driven by a man identified as his brother-in-law, Capt. Richard Foley said. Under Tennessee law, the owner of the vehicle can be charged if he or she is the passenger when the driver is arrested on DUI charges. The owner can be charged even if he or she is not intoxicated, Foley said. It was not clear whether McNair was impaired. McNair’s Dodge pickup was stopped just before midnight after police clocked it at 44 mph in a 30-mph zone five miles west of downtown Nashville. The vehicle was being driven by Jamie Cartwright, who identified himself to police as McNair’s brother-in-law. Both were arrested and taken downtown. McNair was later released, Foley said.”

Huh. I live in Tennessee. I am an attorney (although not a criminal defense attorney). And I had no idea about that particular twist in the law.

At any rate, that is technically McNair’s second DUI charge. Given NFL commish Roger Goodell’s raging hard-on to look like an enforcement bad-ass this off-season when it comes to off-field troubles, I would say the ball is in his court now…

Thanks to wlu-lax (swamp all-timer class) for the heads up and thread on this.