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Coincidentally, DUI and DWI arrests made in Washington, D.C. and Columbia, Maryland are actually similarly treated in the system. The one BIG difference is that video-recorders are virtually everywhere the police are in D.C. (throughout the police precincts and on the bodies of police officers), and they are relied upon in the courts in drunk driving prosecutions. Columbia, specifically, and Maryland,generally, presently do not use video-recorders in DUI and DWI arrests.
DUI and DWI defenses,however, in these two jurisdictions are very similar. Some common drunk driving defenses utilized are:
(1) The "stop" by police of the driver was improper (for a possible variety of reasons)> In effect, the police officer lacked "probable cause" to make the initial stop of the vehicle and its driver.
(2) Improper and/or inaccurate administration of the field sobriety tests(FSTs), resulting in inaccurate, unreliable and untrustworthy results.
(3) Improper and/or inaccurate administration of the alcohol breath tests and/or the blood-alcohol tests.
(4) In the District of Columbia, the video-recorders recording cannot , or will not, be produced to the defendant in advance of trial --or is not produced at trial . In other words, the videocamera recording goes missing.
(5) Rising Blood Alcohol Concentration (Rising BAC). The driver's BAC was below the legal limit while the defendant was driving but actually increased between the time of the traffic stop and the administration of the breath test. This can happen when recently consumed alcohol has yet to fully absorb into the system until the time of the BAC test.
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