Showing posts with label breath test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breath test. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

More breath test shenanigans

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If you have been a long time follower of this blog the name Dee Wallace should ring a bell. She was the technical supervisor in charge of b...
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

More problems with breath tests up in Conroe

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Earlier this month I posted an article about how the Montgomery County DA's Office and the Texas DPS were trying to paper over a colossa...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Something's rotten up in Conroe

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Texas DPS Standard Operating Guidelines for Technical Supervisors   1.1 An official inspection by a Technical Supervisor can only be ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Judge throws curve ball regarding Pennsylvania's breath test machines

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The DWI statute in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania establishes three levels of DWI offenses. There is a "loss of normal use" DWI ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Assuming that was his real purpose

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The other day I was in county court handling a client's DWI case. The judge was calling the trial docket and trying to figure out if any...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Making us all just a little bit dumber

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Apparently Amy Davis of KPRC-TV in Houston doesn't keep up with the news . If she had, she might not have criticized the Harris County S...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

A breath tester in every car

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It's one thing to punish motorists for exercising their Constitutional right to give up evidence that could be used against them. The co...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Trying to keep your story straight

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It can be so damned hard to get those stories straight sometimes. Fudging a little bit here, leaving out something over there and then havin...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Runaway grand jury closes up shop

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Yesterday the grand jury investigating the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced that it was not issuing any indictments . ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A demotion

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Now, lest anyone think I'm biased with regard to the unmitigated disaster known as the HPD breath alcohol testing van (BAT van) program...
Friday, December 16, 2011

I'll have a fifth, please

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On Thursday morning, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer appeared before a grand jury looking into the troubled HPD mob...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grand jury subpoenas top county officials in DWI probe

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Remember that "runaway" grand jury investigating the HPD BATmobiles ? Well, they're baaack... The county judge and two commi...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Harris County's runaway grand jury: a blawgosphere summary

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On Monday morning, two high-level prosecutors in the Harris County District Attorney's Office will appear in the 185th Judicial District...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Judge calls top prosecutors on the carpet

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Oh, what tangled webs we weave... As you already may know (if you read Murray Newman's blog ), two top-ranking prosecutors and two co...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A rat in a trap

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As my colleague Murray Newman reported earlier today, four prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office were subpoenae...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Runaway jury

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The original purpose of the grand jury was to have a body that could review a case to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed. The...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Ask not for whom the whistle blows

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For the past two decades the breath alcohol testing program in Harris County was run by Lone Star College (formerly North Harris Montgomery ...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Thinking before speaking

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Why would some local criminal defense attorneys be singing the praises of ex-HPD crime lab technical supervisor Amanda Culbertson? Ms. Cul...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What's the point?

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To secure a defendant's attendance at trial, a magistrate may impose any reasonable condition of bond related to the safety of a victim...
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