Tucson DUI Charges May be Tossed Out
Local defense attorneys are suggesting that hundreds of Tucson DUI charges may be subject to dismissal. The attorneys have specifically identified a handful of Tucson DUI cases in which they say that the evidence presented to the grand jury did not match police reports. Specifically, a Tucson police detective who was assigned to present DUI cases to the grand jury, and who was not involved in any of the arrests in question, apparently testified that suspects had failed field sobriety tests when in fact they had not.
The testimony was based on a summary sheet provided by prosecuting attorneys. Prosecutors are downplaying the impact of this issue on Tucson DUI prosecutions, but the defense attorneys who first raised the discrepancy believe that hundreds of Tucson DUI defendants may have been impacted.