DUI Defender

This article recently appeared in an Arizona newspaper. It relates the story of a woman who appeared to be under the influence by a citizen informant. He watched the woman drink glass after glass of white wine then load up her car with her 4 year old son and head out onto the highway. The citizen informant called the police when she ran a stop sign. The woman drove over to a local mall and the informant followed her, even pointing her out when the police arrived.

The police conducted a dui investigation which the overweight woman had trouble completing, finally she provided a breath sample which measured .04. Still, she was arrested, her child taken away from her as she was taken to jail. At the jail she provided a chemical test that was below the .04 she provided in the field. That didn’t stop the District Attorney from filing charges for DUI instead of apologizing for the conduct of law enforcement.

The truth of the matter was that she was driving home from dental surgery, she stopped for lunch and ordered a mimosa which she didn’t finish as it irritated her mouth, she then switched to water… which was served in a wine glass, repeatedly.

This article is a statement of the sad reality of how one person, who wasn’t doing anything wrong, ended up in a legal pickle.

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