USA Today recently ran a piece about the fact that in several states people are getting charged with DUI even though they are completely sober. As the article notes, this is what happens “science meets politics”. In Arizona and 9 other st
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One of the hardest things for a human being to do is admit that he or she was wrong. A recent story from Eugene, Oregon is a classic example of that maxim: A young lady was pulled over for weaving out of her lane and speeding. According to the offic
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No one is going to brag for me so here it goes: I was honored to be named “Best of the Bar” for DUI and Criminal Defense by the Kansas City Business Journal. There is a link here. There are not many Kansas DUI lawyers named in Best of the
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More trouble for the Intoxilyzer 8000, the same machine used in every Kansas DUI breath test case. According to this news story, “thousands” of people in Florida have been tested on these machines going back to 2006 and it turns out the
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According to this news account from the Houston Chronicle, the former lab supervisor of the Houston Crime Lab and another colleague quit because she did not trust the accuracy of breath test results from the Houston Police Department’s breath t
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I have been hesitating to write about the new Kansas DUI laws which will go into effect on July 1, 2011, until I had more information about what the procedure will be for people to take advantage of them. But, I am already getting a lot of calls abou
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A judge in Ohio has issued an order that he will not allow breath test results from the Intoxilyzer 8000 machine into evidence in DUI cases until such time as the machine can be shown to be reliable. The judge apparently noted that the machine’
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