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Due Process and DWI Law: The Commerical Driver License

Anyone who has taken Administrative Law knows that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the citizens will enjoy the due process of law before any administrative acts deprive them of privileges they enjoy. In North Carolina (as in most states) individuals who pass certain physical and practical tests may be issued a…

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Confrontation Clause and DWI Cases – Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

For years North Carolina, like many states, permitted the State to introduce the results of a DWI defendant’s breath test. That meant that the Defendant’s attorney would have no opportunity to question the breath analyst on the stand about the procedure used, whether the breath analyst was certified at the time the test was [...]

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The high cost of imprisoning drug crime offenders

Missouri Chief Justice William Price recently called into question his state’s drug crime policy. Missouri, like North Carolina and all other states, focuses predominately on incarceration and prison to fight the drug war, rather than on treatment and job skills training.
As a result:
“The problem is that we are following a broken strategy [...]

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