California priorities...

It's illegal to urinate in public in the state of California. Three judges took 20 pages to explain this. It seems like a rather simple thing, something most folks would've already known, right? Apparently prosecutors in the same county aren't even phased by the idea of a neurosurgeon operating while intoxicated.

The article indicates that sheriff's deputies arrested the good doctor on suspicion of being drunk in public (although wouldn't , but the tests were incomplete because he refused to cooperate. Thus, the prosecutors dropped those charges. We don't know how intoxicated the doctor may or may not have been, but hospital stated that they would review their policies on alcohol use, which is not the sort of thing you do unless someone feels that alcohol was a factor.