Bye Bye DWI

Hello everyone. This new video was just posted on YouTube today. This is currently running on RCTV. It is Q and A hosted by Kendra Cooper. Massachusetts OUI defense attorney Jay Milligan and I were guests on this episode, which deals with DWI roadblocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWueW5wbNY If you or a loved one has been stopped in a New Hampshire DWI roadblock and arrested for a DWI or other offense please feel free to contact my office for a free initial case consultation. Have a safe night, Mark Stevens http://www.ByeByeDWI.com http://www.ByeByeOUI.com http://www.ByeByeDUI.com http://www.nhdwilaws.com Read Full Story

I was asked during a trial this year by a judge why any one who was innocent would refuse to take a breath or blood test to prove his or her innocence after a DWI arrest. My answer was longer than I can include here, but part of it was that many people simply don't trust the government's tools that they use to convict people, some of whom are sober. In other words, it is not consciousness of guilt; it is consciousness of the fallibility of the means by which the government gathers evidence in DWI cases. For the most part, the police do ... Read Full Story

He llo everyone. I have posted two new case results on my website, one a dismissal of a boating while intoxicated charge and the other is the dismissal of an ALS suspension after the driver was tazed: http://www.ByeByeDWI.com You will see a victory in a boating while intoxicated that was dismissed during a trial in District Court last week. In that case most of the evidence was suppressed after my motion to suppress was granted based on an illegal extension of the initial stop of the driver by police. It is important to challenge any and all evidence the state tries to present in ... Read Full Story

Hi everyone. Here's a link to a story about a bogus, false arrest. The cops noted "a reddening of the conjunctiva and a greenish color on the driver's tongue". The "reddening" would be the same if you smoked weed, overslept, didn't sleep, drank a lot of coffee, didn't drink enough coffee, stayed outside in the sun or almost anything else, because "reddening of the conjunctiva" is in the "eye" of the beholder. The "greenish tongue" could be caused by eating green Italian wedding cookies, jalapenos or anything else with green food coloring. But as many of us have heard, cops will testify that "based ... Read Full Story

Hello everyone. This post, as well as a search and seizure case post to be published later today, does not involve a New Hampshire DWI case. It does, though, involve an interesting Sixth Amendment right addressed by the California Supreme Court in which it reversed a death penalty conviction a couple of days ago. The case is People of California v. Raymond Oscar Butler , decided December 10, 2009. Note the date of the opinion if you search for more information on it because it is not Mr. Butler's only death penalty conviction and it is not even his only death penalty case. The ... Read Full Story