Wolfe v Georgia Department of Driver Services – judgment from afar in time and space
Wolfe v. Georgia Department of Driver Services, A14A2286, January 26, 2015. In 1987 and again in 1989, Wolfe was convicted of a DUI-related offense in Illinois. Wolfe had never been a resident of Illinois and had never been issued a driver’s license by Illinois. In 1999, Wolfe moved to the State of Georgia and obtained […]
Read MoreUber.com and the free market beat police at DUI reduction
Entrepreneur.com reported on August 25th, 2015 that Uber has a bigger impact on DUI deaths than law enforcement. Imagine a world where market forces make the world safer than police, courts, and incarceration. According to researchers at Temple University, a study saw a 3.5 % to 5% reduction in one year in cities where Uber.com operated. […]
Read MoreWSB reports that Atlanta Police are Disbanding their HEAT Unit – DUI Taskforce
Friday, January 23, 2015: WSB Reports that the Atlanta Police Department (APD) is disbanding its DUI Taskforce and spreading the six officers on the Unit across the department to train more officers. Rumors on the street are that responsible APD officials actually forgot to timely file the grant paperwork necessary to fund the DUI Unit with […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Courts Massive Blind Spot
Radley Balko writes in the Washington Post on January 22, 2015, about the massive blind spot of experience on the U.S. Supreme Court on how criminal justice actually works on the street and in the courtroom. The reality is that most Judges have never worked as Defense Attorneys, stared into the desperate eyes of the […]
Read MoreCawley vs State – Constitutional Speedy Trial – Third Time is the Charm
Cawley vs. State, A14A0996, November 21. 2014. The Georgia Court of Appeals remanded this case, a second time, again to the trial court to properly weigh the Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 415 (92 SCt 2182, 33 LE2d 101)(1972) factors on its second appearance on interlocutory appeal. Defendant, Cawley, was arrested for DUI and speeding on February […]
Read MoreConscientious Roadblock Objector stymies Police Road Block
Fairdui.org has created a firestorm of praise and scorn on media sites across the country. Chanting the Mantra: “I REMAIN SILENT, NO SEARCHES, I WANT MY LAWYER.” They have even utilized their Fairdui flyers to successfully negotiate Police Roadblocks and posted a video of the same on youtube.com. The video shows a driver utilizing a FairDUI flyer […]
Read MoreDUI arrests down 70 percent in Cherokee County over New Years Eve Holiday
Cherokeetribune.com reported on January 4th, 2014 that there was a 70% decrease in DUI arrest over the December 28 th through January 1st New Years’ Eve Holiday period. Last year there were 11 arrests as compared to this year with only 3 arrests. There were five fatalities reported during the holiday period one death in Cartersville reported […]
Read MoreHow License Plate Readers are doing more than checking your tag
Catherine Crump, Berkeley Law Professor who focuses on the legality of data and surveillance, explains in her TED talk the dirty little secret of police license plate readers (LPRs) that you see on police cars everywhere. Not only are these license plate readers checking for delinquent insurance, suspended registration, active warrants, expired tags, and suspended […]
Read MoreIgnorantia legis neminem excusat – except for the Police
Nicholas B. Heien v. North Carolina, No. 13-604, Supreme Court of the United States (December 14, 2014). The U.S. Supreme Court held that a reasonable mistake of law by police in the required number of working tail lights on an automobile in the context of investigatory detention and search can be reasonable suspicion of a […]
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