Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share DUI Arrest, What Is The Minimum Amount Of Evidence Required?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
DUI Arrest, What Is The Minimum Amount Of Evidence Required?
People v. Williams, 2018 IL App (2d) 160683 (October). Episode 558b (Duration 11:25)
Challenging this DUI traffic stop gave us a reason to review exactly what it takes for police to find probable cause for a DUI arrest in Illinois.
Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Android | RSS | Direct Download
APPLE PODCASTS GOOGLE PODCASTS
SPOTIFY ANDROID RSS
DIRECT DOWNLOAD
The Stop
Around 1 in the morning officer sees a car with the left-turn arrow activated. It then proceeded straight through the intersection. The car then lunged into the intersection, paused, and then continued through into the parking lot for the Elgin Mall.
The officer stopped the car.
DUI Indicia
Defendant’s speech was “kind of mumbled, slow and slurred,” and he smelled an alcoholic beverage “coming from [defendant’s] person.” Defendant advised the officer that he had come from a bar—JB’s.
Defendant said he had consumed four beers.
DUI Investigator Arrives
Suspecting that defendant might be impaired, the first officer called a second officer to the scene. The second officer was more experienced in DUI investigations. The second officer arrived a few minutes later.
The DUI investigator testified that he spoke with defendant and asked him to step out of the vehicle. Defendant emerged from the vehicle without stumbling or falling, but he swayed as he stood outside the vehicle.
The second officer also smelled the odor of alcohol on defendant. He also noticed the defendant’s eyes were “red, bloodshot, glassy, watery.”
Defendant refused to perform field sobriety tests. Defendant said a football injury prevented him from performing the tests. He also claimed that he could not walk a straight line sober.
Defendant was then arrested for DUI.
The Car Search
The car was searched and police discovered what appeared to be cannabis pipes. They still had a little cannabis inside them.
No Fields,
View all episodes
By Police NuggetsPeople v. Williams, 2018 IL App (2d) 160683 (October). Episode 558b (Duration 11:25)
Challenging this DUI traffic stop gave us a reason to review exactly what it takes for police to find probable cause for a DUI arrest in Illinois.
Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Android | RSS | Direct Download
APPLE PODCASTS GOOGLE PODCASTS
SPOTIFY ANDROID RSS
DIRECT DOWNLOAD
The Stop
Around 1 in the morning officer sees a car with the left-turn arrow activated. It then proceeded straight through the intersection. The car then lunged into the intersection, paused, and then continued through into the parking lot for the Elgin Mall.
The officer stopped the car.
DUI Indicia
Defendant’s speech was “kind of mumbled, slow and slurred,” and he smelled an alcoholic beverage “coming from [defendant’s] person.” Defendant advised the officer that he had come from a bar—JB’s.
Defendant said he had consumed four beers.
DUI Investigator Arrives
Suspecting that defendant might be impaired, the first officer called a second officer to the scene. The second officer was more experienced in DUI investigations. The second officer arrived a few minutes later.
The DUI investigator testified that he spoke with defendant and asked him to step out of the vehicle. Defendant emerged from the vehicle without stumbling or falling, but he swayed as he stood outside the vehicle.
The second officer also smelled the odor of alcohol on defendant. He also noticed the defendant’s eyes were “red, bloodshot, glassy, watery.”
Defendant refused to perform field sobriety tests. Defendant said a football injury prevented him from performing the tests. He also claimed that he could not walk a straight line sober.
Defendant was then arrested for DUI.
The Car Search
The car was searched and police discovered what appeared to be cannabis pipes. They still had a little cannabis inside them.
No Fields,