Drunk driving and related vehicular offenses
Robert S. Reiff ; with H. Scott Fingerhut, contributing editor.
- 5th ed.
- New Providence, NJ LexisNexis 2010.
- xxxi, 1287, [139] p. forms 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The basics -- The initial client meeting : how to sell yourself to the client -- The stop and arrest -- Physical sobriety exercises -- Roadblocks -- Breath and urine testing -- Refusal to submit to the breath test -- Blood tests -- Administrative driver's license hearings -- Limitations on prosecutions : the double jeopardy clause and the statute of limitations -- Jury selection -- Cross-examination of the arresting officer -- DUI and the entrapment, necessity, and sleep disorder defenses -- Expert witnesses -- The closing argument -- Jury instructions -- Murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicide, DUI with serious bodily injury and felony DUI -- DUI and drug recognition -- Sentencing -- Accident investigation and reconstruction -- My top twenty tips for defending DUI cases (or... if you read nothing else in this book, read this chapter!) -- Some other serious vehicular offenses -- DUI in a civil context -- Boating under the influence -- The lighter side of drunk driving... -- The trial notebook.
9781422481257 (hbk.) 1422481255 (hbk.)
2010938172
Drunk driving--United States. Defense Criminal procedure --United States.