The Pitch Weekly published an article today about Kansas City checklanes and the people that protest them. I was quoted briefly in the article. The article is a good run-down of the arguments, pro and con, surrounding DUI roadblocks. I have blogged
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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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For years Kansas appellate courts have held that if a police officer smells the odor of burnt marijuana coming from inside of a person’s car, they therefore are allowed to pull everybody out and search the car – just based on the allegati
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Attorney William “Bubba” Head, from Atlanta, Georgia, is interviewed in this video for a radio show. He discusses the costs associated with a DUI conviction, the fallacy of the field sobriety tests,and other issues surrounding DUI cases.
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A brand new feature on the Kansas Department of Revenue website allows Kansas drivers to check the status of their driver’s license online. The link is found at www.ksrevenue.org in the vehicles section. This may be especially handy now since t
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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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The Olathe Police Department conducted a DUI checklane on the night of Friday, June 17, and stopped 463 vehicles. This massive effort led to a whopping 3 DUI arrests in the checklane. The police waited until yesterday to release these results. That i
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