Reiff, Robert S.

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.

KF 2231 / .R45 2010