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"Winning the DWI / DUI Crash Case"
Seminar Outline
- Establishing Guilt in the First Hour
- How to obtain more effective statements from witnesses and operators
- Seeing the crash through the witness' eyes
- Recognizing the potential and limitation of a witness' accuracy
- Building a Shield Against Defense Motions
- Identifying the essential forms of evidence in all DWI/DUI-related cases
- Re-orienting investigators to the application of the 4th, 5th and 6th
- Making the Police Officer into a Powerful Witness
- The Relationship Between Truth, Objective Reality and Credibility
- Witness Preparation, visual thinking and police-prosecutor trust
- Painting the Picture for the Jury
- Building police officer credibility
- Exhibits and demonstrations that "paint the picture" for the jury
- Delivering "knock-out" testimony
- Slamming the Door on the "Two Beer" Defense
- The physiology of ethanol - absorption and elimination
- The pharmacology and effects of low dosages of ethanol (BAC= .03+)
- The potential of the DRE Officer as investigator/trial witness
- Defeating Defense Attacks on the Police Officer Witness
- "Arming" the police witness with tools for protecting the truth
- Maintaining credibility at all costs
- Protecting objective reality
- Identifying and neutralizing defense attorney strategies
Course Schedule
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7:45 |
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8:15 |
Registration |
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8:15 |
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8:30 |
Introductions & Course Overview |
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8:30 |
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9:30 |
Establishing a Defendant's Guilt in the First Hour |
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9:40 |
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10:00 |
Building a Shield Against Defense Motions |
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10:00 |
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11:00 |
Case Study |
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11:10 |
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12:30 |
Witness Preparation |
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1:30 |
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2:30 |
Toxicology - Slamming the Door on "2-beer" defenses |
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2:40 |
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3:30 |
Part I. Defeating Cross Exam Attacks on the Police Officer |
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3:40 |
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4:30 |
Part II. Defeating Cross Exam Attacks on the Police Officer |
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4:30 |
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4:50 |
Student-Instructor Review of Key Points |
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4:50 |
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5:00 |
Evaluations, CLE/POST documentation and awards |
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