The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dennys Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. ____ (2015), issued April 21, 2015, gives defendants and defense attorneys a powerful new tool to suppress evidence discovered after a routine traffic stop should have ended. This case establishes the rule that "a police stop...
DUI Defense
Over Labor Day Weekend, Arizona police issued a four-day statewide DUI enforcement crackdown and arrested 582 people on suspicion of DUI. That's 79 more than last year, or about a 16 percent increase. Of those arrested, the average blood alcohol content was .145. DUIs in which authorities suspected drug use...
AZ Supreme Court: Non-Impairing Marijuana Metabolites Cannot be Basis for DUI Conviction
A divided Arizona Supreme Court significantly limited the scope of Arizona Driving Under the Influence laws in a decision published last week. Under the pertinent section of the DUI statute, driving is prohibited “While there is any drug…or its metabolite in the person's body.” A.R.S. § 28-1381(a)(3). Past Arizona cases...