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DWI- .00 and still arrested!
http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2008/05/the_driving_while_intoxicated.html
Jason (DWI attorney in Arizona) tells Heather to refuse these tests. DWI defense attorneys know these tests are a fraud. Jason also believed that Officer Gonzalez wasn't going to be impartial. Result- Heather gets arrested for DWI, car is impounded. Heather's blood alcohol was then tested and confirmed to be .000!! This is why opinion crime is so dangerous. The police have unilateral authority to arrest without evidence. The driving public has no protection from corrupt or incompetent police.

Real government waste: Mandatory sentences
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2008/06/real-government.html
... But all the money spent in those time-worn examples of "waste" pales in comparison to the millions and millions of dollars state taxpayers are spending to lock up nonviolent drug offenders who unwittingly found themselves within 1,000 feet of a school, or who are first-time offenders better served by drug treatment or other alternatives to jail ...