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Diabetic Victims of DUI Arrests

By Stephen J. Isaacs, Esq.

As a Kentucky DUI attorney, I have observed diabetics arrested and victimized by the zealous efforts by poorly trained law enforcement officers seeking to obtain a DUI convictions. The truth is that some diabetic individuals arrested for DUI are innocent of the DUI charges and need medical attention. For example, in one case reviewed for this article, the subject arrested by police for DUI suffered from diabetic symptoms, and the officer did nothing to help the detainee. In that case, the officer stated on the police report that the subject had the odor of alcohol, that they failed all of the standard field sobriety tests (SFSTs), and that the Portable Breath Test (PBT) device measured alcohol on the subjects breath. Yet the subject's blood test for alcohol registered ZERO...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer on October 01, 2007 (boomark / email).