Court acquits nuisance drunkard

A Kuwaiti court has acquitted a man charged with public intoxication and disturbing the peace, ruling that his arrest and the subsequent search were invalid. The Misdemeanor Court found that the man was apprehended in a hotel, which is considered a private space, not a public location as the charges implied.

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the hotel’s security reported a fight and damage to property inside a villa belonging to the hotel, along with suspicions that the suspects are in an intoxicated condition.

The case began when the hotel's security reported disturbances and property damage within a villa, suspecting the individuals involved were intoxicated. Police responded, arrested the suspects, and took them to the station and then to court. However, during the legal proceedings, the defendant's lawyer, Walid Masoud, challenged the validity of the arrest and search procedures.

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proved the invalidity of his client’s arrest and search.

Masoud argued that his client's state of intoxication did not legally justify the arrest. He further contended that referring his client for examination by the Criminal Evidence General Department was unlawful, violating Article 80 of the relevant law. Consequently, Masoud asserted that any evidence obtained from these invalid procedures was inadmissible in court, leading to the acquittal.

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his client’s intoxicated condition did not justify his arrest, asserting that referring his client to the Criminal Evidence General Department is invalid, because it is a violation of Article 80 of the relevant law, and that the evidence is inadmissible since it is based on invalid arrest procedures.