Originally Posted by Comanche3Six (Post 4266600)

He was a lawyer in your line of work, office was in Red Bank NJ

Originally Posted by Smarty (Post 4266603)

I may know his face if I saw him, don't remember the name.

I do not get to Monmouth County hardly ever, I have only had four clients from there in five years, I am in Gloucester, Camden, Burlington, Cumberland, Salem counties primarily, occasionally Cape May, Ocean, Mercer, and Atlantic. Nothing against Monmouth, it is just a pain in the ass to travel there by 8:30 A.M. form where I live in Gloucester County.

Originally Posted by Comanche3Six (Post 4266606)

Francis passed away in 2003, but was heavily into the DUI Defense arena. Reading this thread and just thought I would ask.

Originally Posted by Smarty (Post 4266598)

You bring up a very good point. Here is a real world example. A client goes to a local restaurant/bar (Carolina Blue), in Mantua, NJ has a beef barbeque sandwich, two Budweisers, one Absolute and Club soda with lemon wedge, and one Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks. The client weighs 215 lbs, started drinking at 10:00 P.M. stopped drinking at 12:00 P.M.

He stops to visit how mother at 12:16, since she lives 1/8 mile away form the bar, my client (age 49) and his 22 year old girlfriend talk with his mother for 15 minutes before heading out. He is stopped pulling out of her street by the local police officer at 12:30 A.M. (2 and 1/2 hours after he started drinking), who knows the client, not in a bad way, this client is a DUI attorney. The officer with 15 years experience indicates he smells alcohol, now the game is on.

He asks the driver/client to exit the vehicele to perform the field sobrirty tests on hill, not a flat level surface as required, the officer then indicates that the driver is somehow resisting arrest, so the driver complies, knowing full well he is under the legal limit and knowing he does not have to do the field sobriety tests at all but is confident the officer will recognize that the driver is in fact sober. The driver is 100% conffdent that his BAC would be .03, at most .04. The officer then handcuffs the driver alleges DUI, and the driver is then transported to the police station. Here is the problem for the driver, it is Saturday night, he has court at 8:30 a.m. Monday morning. New Jersey law requires that the alleged drunk driver's car must be towed and impounded for 24 hours, or a sober person other that than the driver can drive the car, the car will not be released to the driver. The towing company and auto body shop tow yard for impound was not open on Sundays. This cost the driver, $$$, and the driver will be late to a Superior Court case is he scheduled to appear on Monday morning , in a gun case where his client, allegedly shoots a handgun in a fight, a big case, not a daily speeding ticket matter. So the attorney's presence on time is important, the court does not want to hear that the attorney was late to court because he was accused of DUI and his car was impounded, that is an unacceptable tardiness excuse.

At the station the Alcotest (breath test) was performed, at least the officer got that right, the driver/client had a BAC of .03....the officer was dead wrong, cost the driver time and money. The driver then said to the the officer that the he (the officer) lacked training, is DUI incompetent, or just out to get the driver....

The DUI was dismissed, but the municipality refused to reimburse the driver for the towing and impound. In this example which happened a year ago, I was the driver/client....you can only imagine how mad I was, I did keep my composure. The underlying ticket for stop was alleged that i did not come to a full stop at the stop sign at the end of the street, which was just a complete lie.

It cost me time and money, time and money

So my BAC of .03 cost me time and mone, the force is very aggressive which is a good thing for my business, bad thing for the residents...the odor of alcohol as all he needed.....I will forget that stop as long as I live. Just bullsh*t.

Originally Posted by extras (Post 4266856)

22 year old girlfriend. Awesome

Originally Posted by phragle (Post 4265703)

In Ohio, you get "party plates" after a couple dui's.... they are yellow with redletters/numbers.. different from normal ohio plates. And they mean a cop can pull you over when ever for whatever without rhyme or reason.