The Short Answer? Admit to doing the exact same thing the people charged did. I have never had a case where a prosecutor has stood in front of a large group and admitted to driving while intoxicated — or any other crime for that matter. But that seems to be exactly…
In a recent blog post by blogger Robert Guest, he posts about some of the techniques taught to prosecutors when cross examining a defendant in a DWI case. These are the same techniques taught to me while working as a prosecutor. He reports from old manuals that he has: Today’s…
In a recent case in New Mexico, a citizen was arrested, tired, and acquitted of DWI. Despite his being found not guilty by a jury of his peers, and after a clerk "checked the wrong box" saying guilty, his picture and name was published in the newspaper. Oh yes, a…