The path to a 'not guilty' in Plymouth County

The sound of tires on gravel causes the homeowner to look out her bedroom window.

She sees a car just miss her parked vehicle and head toward the house.

The car hits stacked wood beside house.

The car turns into the backyard, stops, reverses, and drives forward into the sunroom.

The car backs up, drives into the front yard, stops, backs into the house, drives into a tree, and backs into the house again.

The car drives across the front yard and gets stuck on raised walkway.

Judge's reasoning for a 'not guilty' verdict

• • No one saw the driver operating his car on a public roadway.
• • The car could have come from the dirt path that circles the bog.
• • Driver's statement that he had been drinking at a bar in Carver had been ruled inadmissible.