Several weeks ago I blogged and questioned whether all of the continually increasing harshness of the Kansas DUI law was having any effect, whatsoever, on drinking and driving and the safety of the roads. There was a major overhaul of the Kansas DUI
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The states of Kansas and Missouri are both undertaking an aggressive DUI crackdown campaign between now and Labor Day 2007. The Kansas campaign is funded by a grant from Kansas Department of Transportation and is titled: “Drunk Driving: Over th
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Olathe conducted a checklane on July 28, 2007 and stopped a whopping 1,290 vehicles. They got 14 DUI arrests. That is about 1.1%. Another way to look at it is that they had a 98.9% failure rate. 1,276 people who weren’t intoxicated were stopped
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Generally, in Kansas, a DUI can be proven either of 2 ways: (1) by showing that a driver submitted a blood, breath or urine test of .08 or greater within 2 hours of driving a vehicle, or (2) that a driver was so under the influence of alcohol or drug
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Also known as “Roadside Gymnastics” or “Stupid Human Tricks”, the so-called “Field Sobriety Tests” don’t really measure whether a person is under the influence of alcohol or not. In addition to some exercises
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There are a whole lot of ways to get a breath test thrown out or to demonstrate that there is reasonable doubt about an alleged breath test result. Here are the Top 10, actually make it 12, not necessarily in any order of importance: 1. Observation P
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I am going to try to lay off the checklanes. Frankly, it is taxpayers who should be getting outraged. But, I can’t help talking about this one. The KCMO police department held a checklane last weekend. They stopped 2,541 vehicles. They got 15 D
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