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Anyone Can Be Arrested On Suspicion Of Driving Under The Influence

As Steve Oberman from Tennessee recently noted (see his blog entry of August 10, 2012), anyone can be arrested for suspected DUI.  Recently in California, a priest was stopped without probable cause while driving his mother home from a family dinner.

Stopped in a DUI Checkpoint, the Reverend Salvatore Cordileone (archbishop-elect of San Francisco) was arrested in San Diego after blowing into a breath-alcohol detection device that reportedly showed a result over the .08 percent or higher statutory limit.

Rev. Cordileone was booked into the San Diego County Jail shortly after midnight, and not released until around noon the next day.  He was required to post a bond because of his out-of-county residency.  Even though Cordileone had committed no traffic violation, the arresting officer asserted that he was “obviously impaired.”  However, impairment for purposes of “driving under the influence” in a California DUI prosecution, requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the motorist lacked the ability to drive with the caution and care of a sober person, under similar circumstances, as a result of consuming alcohol or drugs, or both.

The priest was one of 11 people arrested at this DUI Checkpoint, though police declined to say how many of those 11 were arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.  For professional legal assistance on a DUI or DMV matter pending in Northern California, contact Board Certified DUI Defense attorney Paul Burglin.

 

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Paul Burglin

Paul Burglin practices DUI defense in the San Francisco Bay Area including the Napa/Sonoma wine country. He has been specializing in DUI defense for more 35 years After graduating from U.C. Berkeley in 1980, Mr. Burglin received his law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law in Washington. He is Board Certified in DUI Defense (as approved by the American Bar Association) and co-authors the two-volume treatise, "California Drunk Driving Law." He is past Dean of the National College of DUI Defense (www.NCDD.com) and is Editor-in-Chief of its case law update and newsletter. He is one of only a select few of DUI defense attorneys in the United States to have attended the University of Indiana’s Borkenstein Course on chemical testing and scientific protocols offered to prosecution experts, and he is a certified graduate of that program. He has been selected to the 2021 Northern California Super Lawyers list and is A-V rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

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