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Chicago Police Officer Fails to Follow Procedure In DUI Arrests

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

Prosecutors in Cook County, Chicago, are looking into whether an officer hailed as ?top cop? for making a record number of DUI arrests, followed the correct procedure in administering field sobriety tests or Breathalyzer tests. According to a news report in the Chicago Tribune prosecutors dropped 50 misdemeanor cases stemming from arrests made by Officer John Haleas. About 500 more cases are under review, the article said. The investigation began after two prosecutors in training rode along with the officer in April 2005. Not only did they see that Haleas did not give the man he stopped on suspicion of a DUI a field sobriety test, but also he did not make the man aware of his rights to decline a Breathalyzer test. Officers are also mandated by law to observe a suspect for 20 continuous minutes before giving the exam, but Haleas did not do that either, the article said...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on October 31, 2007 (boomark / email).