Police often video various aspects of the arrest and booking of a person driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while intoxicated (DWI). Few people picked up for DUI / DWI ever see themselves as others see them. Even fewer realize they are being recorded by the police.
Defense attorneys have a difficult job when their client can not accurately recall events so as to assist in their defense. Alcohol and other intoxicants affect brain functions which affects thought processes, memory, and motor control. Fortunately, police video's are many times very helpful tools for Kentucky criminal defense lawyers. Based on the facts involved in each DUI case, these video's may show constitutional and / or procedural violations. If the video shows such a violation, then the skilled Kentucky criminal defense attorney will usually file a motion to suppress evidence in an attempt to get the Court to rule that a part or the entire police video is inadmissible at the DUI trial.
Click on the link to see a police video discovered on the Internet showing an individual believed to be under the influence of alcohol as he was given a breath alcohol test by a police officer at a police station. This is the type of video which would be detrimental to the defense of a DUI case, and one in which the criminal defense attorney would try to suppress.
Post by Kentucky DUI Lawyer, Stephen J. Isaacs, Isaacs Law Office.
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