One will take place on Montgomery Rd. in Norwood and the other one will be in Hamilton on Rt. 4 near Hanover St.
The Hamilton County OVI Task Force will be conducting a DUI Checkpoint at the 5100 block of Colerain Ave tonight, 5-30-14.
It will take place at the 9000 block of Plainfield Rd. Be safe and a call a cab.
Motion To SuppresProbable Cause or a Police Officer's lack thereof is attacked during a Motion to Suppress hearing. If the Judge finds that a Police Officer lacked probable cause to stop your vehicle, all evidence after the stop is suppressed or thrown out. What does this mean? For example, lets say you are stopped because a police officer said you were traveling below the posted speed limit. This is not a violation of the law! Your attorney files a motion to suppress and the Judge holds a hearing. After the hearing the Judge decides that the police officer should not have been able to stop you. So even though you blew a .184 on the breathalyzer and admitted to being drunk, all of this evidence is suppressed or thrown out. Meaning the government can't go forward and you win!
This is a great case out of Fairfield County. Basically, a police officer stopped a car because he heard the Defendant rev his engine and it appeared as though he was traveling faster than the posted speed limit. Thankfully, the Court of Appeals held that the police officer did not have probable cause to stop the car and threw the case out. "Thus, under the facts in the case at bar, the officers intruded upon Below is a case out of Columbus, Ohio where a person was stopped for just having a license plate light burnt out. Make sure your license plate light is working, if not you could end up with a DUI. |