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

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From: Lyle Rooff
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:00

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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.

Eliyahu Rooff

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From: "Lyle Rooff" <lrooff@bmi.net>
Subject: Re: Arrest Slow Drivers--One County's Answer to Aggressive Driving
Date: 1998/06/28
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