DWI cases handcuffed Ruling against breath tests hurts prosecutors
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As the San Antonio area reels from the deaths of seven members of two families in separate wrecks blamed on drunken drivers, a courtroom ban on breath-testing device results is making prosecutions of driving while intoxicated cases more difficult. No matter how much a bloodshot-eyed drunk stumbles, mumbles and even falls flat before a video camera, police, prosecutors and juries everywhere want to know the results of the breath-analyzing machines. For years, those tantalizing… Source : nl.newsbank.com |