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Stopped by Police? What NOT to Do

By Steven Rodriguez

Here’s a tip on what not to do if you get stopped by police. Police were summoned to an Ohio restaurant on a complaint that an intoxicated man was annoying customers. Police responded and, despite the belligerent man’s insistence that he was OK to drive, convinced him to take a cab home. Certain he wasn’t drunk — “I always pace myself,” the man later told a reporter — the man borrowed his daughter’s car and drove to the police station where he insisted on being given a Breathalyzer test.  The man blew a 0.12% in a state where a blood-alcohol level of 0.08% is considered legally drunk. Police issued the man a citation for DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol). “I’m a knucklehead,” the man said later...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).