John A. Stephen

John Stephen is the Assistant Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Safety. He is a 1987 graduate of the Detroit College of Law. After serving one year as a law clerk to Federal District Court Judge Martin F. Loughlin he became an Assistant Hillsborough County (New Hampshire) Attorney where he prosecuted both misdemeanor and felony cases.

In 1992 he became an Assistant Attorney General in the New Hampshire Department of Justice, where his primary responsibility was the statewide coordination of DUI/vehicular homicide presecutions. He wrote New Hampshire's model DUI law requiring medical personnel to release blood alcohol test results and blood samples upon request to police, and he has written and lectured extensively on DUI law. He is an instructor at the New Hampshire Police Academy and a faculty member for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's vehicular homicide training program for prosecuting attorneys.

Stephen has written the highly regarded New Hampshire DWI Manual and co-authored two best selling books: Investigation and Prosecution of DWI and Vehicular Homicide and Officer's DUI Handbook, all published by LEXIS Law Publishing. In addition, he is a co-author of a fourth book published by LEXIS, Courtroom Survival: Making the Traffic Officer a Powerful Witness, which was released in 1999.

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