DUI Convictions in Washington, DC Since Fall 2008 Based on Faulty Breathalyzers
In-depth experience on behalf of your DWI or DUI attorney can occasionally get a sobriety test thrown out, especially if a field sobriety test was administered improperly.
For some, it just got a lot easier. Since fall of 2008, about 400 people have been convicted of driving while intoxicated in the District of Columbia, with about half of them serving jail time. Now, according to D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles, the machines were improperly set by city police.