On November 3, 2019, the New York Times published an article in its Sunday edition that was the culmination of many months of research by its writers. The gist of the article, which you can read here, was that breath test machines are not always accu
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It has been awhile since I wrote a blog post about a DUI checklane in Kansas City. They don’t happen as often as they did years ago, largely because everyone agrees that they are not very effective. However, the Johnson County Sheriff’s D
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It is spring time in Kansas City, which means that it is DUI Checklane season in Kansas and Missouri. Soon, 30 to 40 police officers will gather to set up a way to stop hundreds or thousands of motorists on a weekend night to sniff them out for drink
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Entry into Canada after a conviction for a Kansas DUI has always been tricky, but it is about to get a lot harder. New laws went into effect on December 18, 2018, which classify a DUI as a serious offense and put it on par with some of the most viole
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The following are some of the results we have obtained for clients in DUI cases in 2018. This list only includes DUI cases and not any of the results we have obtained in defending other types of cases. Also, this list only includes DUI cases that res
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In February of 2018, I testified in front of the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee regarding a bill which would make sweeping changes to the DUI laws in Kansas. Among the proposed amendments to the law were criminalizing refusals of breath tests (aga
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On December 22, 2017, the Kansas Court of Appeals declared that the crime of Refusal of a Preliminary Breath Test, as set out in KSA 8-1012, was unconstitutional in a case called State of Kansas v. Michael Robinson (Case No. 116,872). A preliminary b
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