Recently, the State Senate approved legislation to create a database of patients taking prescription drugs. The idea is to give doctors tools to see if the same patients is getting prescriptions from multiple doctors and abusing prescription medication. Sounds like a good idea, right? The good idea turns creepy when we find that District Attorneys and…
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Man Blows .00 and Still Gets Arrested
One of the things that I have tried to show in this blog over the years is the FACT that not everyone who is accused of a DUI is guilty. Many good people are arrested everyday across the country and falsely charged. That is because police do not need any real evidence to arrest you….
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Police DUI Training Gets Worse
What is this world coming to? Seriously. Life mimics commercials like the one below: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developed a curriculum to train law enforcement on how to detect impaired driving. One of these programs, Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), is now being offered as an online training. The goal of…
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Judge Upholds Firing of Trooper Who Issued Bogus DUIs
Imagine being charged with a DUI knowing you were 100% innocent and the charges were completely bogus. Now imagine being convicted of this bogus DUI because the court believed the testimony of the corrupt police officer. License suspension Jail Fines Public embarrassment All because of one corrupt police officer. That is what a court found…
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Bad Police Work Leads to More Tragedy for Family of those Killed in DUI Crash
It is a horrible tragedy to lose loved ones to a DUI accident. It is even worse when justice is cannot be served because of sloppy police work. This is what happened recently in a case in Nevada. DNA shows man wasn’t driver in crash that killed 5; charges dropped DNA from blood in the…
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NTSB Recommends Cutting the DUI limit from .08 to .05
Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that states reduce the allowable blood-alcohol concentration for DUI from 0.08% to 0.05% claiming that it will make the roads safer. Unfortunately, this recommendation has no scientific backing and will result in many more false arrests if adopted. It is based upon a belief not founded in…
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If We Didn’t Have DNA He Would Have Been a Goner
Imagine being 19 years old and spending 9 months in jail for a crime you did not commit. This is the sad case of T.G. Fortunately, this sad story has ended due to the efforts of The McShane Firm who fought tirelessly and eventually got the charges dropped. T.G.’s case is a prime example of how…
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Why Do People Lie?
In a follow up to our recent post If You Think the Police are Honest, Please Read This,we further explore the psychology behind why people lie. We all lie. The police are no different. If you want to understand why, please view the infographic below: (Please Include Attribution to OnlinePsychologyDegree.net With This Graphic) xosotin chelseathông…
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A DUI in a Bicycle? I Kid you not
Sane and rational people associate DUI as driving a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol or a combination of the two. However, police in Pennsylvania every once in a while come up with new ways to challenge rational thought. Man Guilty of DUI on a Bicycle WILLIAMSPORT — A Harrisburg man has…
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A recent opinion piece in the New York Times deals with the question, “Are police officers honest?” It is a fascinating and well researched piece: Why Police Lie Under Oath THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word…
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