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Cops Increasingly Use DUI Arrest Reports?Written Before the Arrest

By Lawrence Taylor

I've commented in past posts that it is becoming an increasingly common practice for police officers to simply use form or template arrest reports in drunk driving cases — what I have referred to in my books as "xeroxed" reports.  See Police Using Pre-Written DUI Reports.  In other words, rather than going to all the "trouble" of writing a report of the actual investigation and arrest, cops are using pre-written reports — and then changing a few details to fit the defendant. This is bad enough, as the reports are supposedly signed under oath and subject to perjury charges.  But it becomes particularly serious when you realize that very few officers can remember the details of a given case when testifying months later...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).