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Countywide; Prosecution Ends DUI Case Arguments

Prosecutors wrapped up their closing arguments Thursday in a case involving the fate of hundreds of drunk-driving cases allegedly mishandled by the county's crime lab. Source : pqasb.pqarchiver.com

Questions Mark End of Judge’s DUI Case Courts: Months of legal maneuvering end in a hung jury and mistrial. Following his car crash, he had failed parts of the field sobriety test and refused to take other parts. Prosecutor says she’ll charge him again.

Guilty. Guilty. Ten times guilty. That's how the vote came down in the jury room on the second floor of the Beverly Hills courthouse. But 10 votes add up to a hung jury, and Judge Edward L. Davenport walked away smiling from his trial on drunk driving charges. He was especially wary of the testimony of Gary Livitski, the arresting officer, who said Davenport failed to walk a straight line and could not say the alphabet. the juror said that the policeman, a 12-year veteran, lacked credibility. He was especially leery of Livitski's joking comment that he was "vaguely familiar" with the

DUI case against McNair formally ends

A final ruling in the DUI case against Titans quarterback Steve McNair ended a year of legal wrangling which saw a judge toss out key evidence that crippled the prosecution. A judge formally dismissed the DUI and illegal gun possession charges Friday, after earlier ruling that police didn't have sufficient reason to pull over McNair in the first place. McNair was arrested in May 2003 while driving his sport utility vehicle in downtown Nashville. His blood alcohol content registered at 0.18%, almost twice the 0.10 level then used to define driving under the influence, according to a police report.

Ensnared by DUI Policy, Driver Waits For Justice

On the day the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation to relax the police department's zero tolerance policy and the mayor asserted that officers are not "targeting drivers who have a drink at dinner," Jackson Williams, a former drunken driving prosecutor, waited seven hours for a chance to defend himself in D.C. Superior Court. He had been arrested in September 2004 under that policy for registering a .02 blood alcohol level after a fender bender with a taxi. He had told the officer he'd had ...

Felony DUI discovered by Tribune casts shadow on trial.

A federal judge launched an investigation into a juror in the George Ryan trial Thursday, hours after the Tribune reported to court officials that public records appear to show the man had a felony DUI conviction that he hid during jury selection. The revelation cast a shadow over the historic prosecution of the former governor and could potentially lead to a motion for a mistrial or form grounds for the juror's dismissal with deliberations already under way. Court records matching the suburban juror's name and other identifying information show a conviction for aggravated drunken driving--a felony--while ...