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Thursday, August 23, 2012
By Michael Nichols
Categories: Drunk-Driving
Michigan OWI attorney Mike Nichols was quoted in the Lansing State Journal this week on the investigation into an off-duty Dewitt Township Police officer’s car accident, in which evidence showed that his breath alcohol level was just below Michigan’s legal limit as measured by a portable breath test (PBT). You can find the full coverage at lsj.com and the story that ran in the Wednesday August 22, edition by writer Kevin Grasha here:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120821/NEWS01/308210030
Nichols added that if “a local police agency can investigate its own officer, give him a pbt that produces a .07 and declare him safe to drive, I should probably start giving pbt’s to all of my clients who are on probation and bond with conditions of no alcohol, then tell all the probation officers that all of my clients are in compliance because I tested them – after all, should I not be trusted to investigate my own clients?”
Nichols, an adjunct professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and author of the OWI Handbook for Michigan lawyers by West Publishing, calls the fact that Dewitt Township did not call in an independent agency from a neighboring jurisdiction to handle the investigation, especially the PBT “a police failure in maintaining transparency and credibility.
If you need a lawyer who is a leader and committed to results, contact the Nichols Law firm at 517 432 9000 or e-mail Mike Nichols at mnichols@nicholslaw.net