Client charged with driving while impaired. LEOs respond to a serious collision where someone being taken to the hospital in EMS vehicle upon troopers arrival. The vehicle had flipped 2 times and landed in the median.
Based upon information obtained at the scene, the LEO finds my client in the hospital with injuries consistent with a motor vehicle accident. She admits to having been driving some vehicle, but LEO fails to gather information about what vehicle she was driving and when. Her blood test reveals a .17 alcohol concentration.
Not guilty of driving while impaired.
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Russell W. “Rusty” DeMent III is a trial lawyer and managing partner at DeMent Askew Johnson & Marshall. A former Wake County Assistant District Attorney, he brings decades of courtroom experience to defending serious criminal charges in both state and federal courts, including DWI, violent crimes, and drug offenses.
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