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Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving

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From: Scott Weiser
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:28:36 -0700, "Lyle Rooff" <lrooff@bmi.net>
wrote:

>
>Scott Weiser wrote in message >
>>Well, Rat, I don't know where you got your DUI training, but mine told
>>me that the NHSTA chart I used for DUI enforcement said that driving
>>more than 15 mph below the posted limit was a "50%er", which means
>>that according to statistics, 50% of the people doing so are DUI.
>
>Interesting thing is that the NHSTA chart we have lists driving too slowly
>as an indicator, but does not list speeding.
>
>
>>
>>Yup, and Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus helps too.
>>
>Washington's courts have thrown out gaze nystagmus as subjective, unreliable
>and therefore inadmissible. Some of the LEOs still do it, but it never gets
>in front of the jury unless the attorney is incompetent.

Hm...interesting.   I always found it to be quite reliable and it
nearly always jibed with the chemical test.  But, I've been out of it
for awhile, so I'm not really surprised technology has changed.
Around here they are using PBT's quite a lot.

Regards,

Scott Weiser

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From: weiser@dimensional.com (Scott Weiser)
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/06/29
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