Summer time in Colorado offers an incredibly wide variety of outdoor activities that attract visitors from around the world and make us glad to be residents. It's also a time when the State Patrol, Denver Police Department and other law enforcement agencies conduct...
Field Sobriety Tests
Social media used to warn of DUI checkpoints?
Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Snapchat: the list of popular social media goes on and on. Because social media is virtually omnipresent in the lives of so many people in the Denver area, it’s perhaps not surprising that police say it’s being used to warn drivers to...
Colorado DUI enforcement kicking off on Memorial Day weekend
Denver’s KWGN reports that a special event is kicking off this Friday at 9 p.m. and wrapping up at 3 the next morning. What’s the big event? It’s the Aurora Police Department’s roadside sobriety checkpoint for this Memorial Day weekend.The officers will be on S....
Persistence pays off in DUI case
Persistence pays off. That’s the takeaway from a story about a DUI case far from us in Denver. An Ohio woman and her attorney have been fighting to suppress evidence obtained by police officers in a town near Cleveland since the summer of 2011.That state’s Supreme...
Professor’s advice: Just say no to field sobriety tests
Field sobriety tests are methods used by police officers during traffic stops in effort to determine if a driver is intoxicated. The tests were developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the 1970s and they haven’t changed much since then.In the...
Field sobriety test may be tough to pass even when sober
Hundreds of drivers are arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, but not all of them are actually guilty. In fact, many times even people who don’t pass field sobriety tests are actually innocent of drunk driving charges. Any person in Denver who has been charged with...