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A .10 Isn't Enough
This story deals with alcohol breath analysis. The 1990 conviction rate for drivers who registered .10 or more and were prosecuted for DWI is 85.4 percent. That figure is the lowest since the Safe Roads Act overhauled drunken driving laws eight years before. The courts' treatment of DWI cases is not as consistent as the legislature hopes when it passed the Safe Roads Act. Conviction rates are also inconsistent, varying among North Carolina counties.
Tags: Safe Roads Act; DWI; DUI; Division of Motor Vehicles; Breathalyzer; Intoxilyzer; state DWI conviction rate; Department of Environment; Health and Natural Resources; alcohol concentration; Highway Patrol
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Getting away with DWI
A Buffalo News investigation shows 75 percent of drunken-driving defendants in Erie County receive lesser convictions because judges and prosecutors are lenient for first-time offenders and because some judges do not accept the results of a new-generation Breathalyzer.
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WJAR-TV (Providence) uses a computer analysis of drunk-driving cases throughout the state to report on the ineffectiveness of Rhode Island's drunk-driving law; profiles the drunk driver; reports on breathalyzer controversy and the effectiveness of individual police departments in dealing with drunk drivers, October 1982.
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