Cameras boost DWI convictions
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GARLAND - The video images are incontestable: A car weaves in and out of its lane at 3 a.m. The driver gets out of the car in the glare of headlights, and stumbles over an imaginary line. In its first year in Fort Worth, a program under which drunken driving suspects are videotaped on the road has led to more convictions and fewer contested cases, officials said yesterday. “A videotape cannot be cross-examined. A videotape cannot be impeached,” explained Lindy Source : nl.newsbank.com |