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This would be funny if it was not so important.  The police officer tells the accused that he has the right to an attorney– then when the accused asks for an attorney the officer tells the accused he cannot have an attorney.  Why do we have to lose all of our rights simple because we are accused of DUI?  Listen to this video and be amazed:

http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/Video%20004/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find information on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

 You should never take these field tests especially if you are sober.  If you watch this videotape the officer assumes that an artificial leg does not constitute a disability.  It would have been a true one legged stand if the officer could have convinced this poor motorist to take that test even though he has an amputed leg. 

The officer then attempt to have the one legged amputee do a walk and turn test involving 9 heel to toe tests up, turn around and the 9 steps heel to back.  And then, based on his assessment of whether you passed the test he will arrest you.  If you listen to this interrogation, it is pretty obvious that if the officer smells alcoholic beverage you are going to be arrested.  In Harrisonburg VA we have had a number of DUI arrests where the person was arrested and then registered .000 on the breath alcohol machine.  A number of these persons were then blood tested and came up negative.  They should not have done the tests; the tests are designed for failure.

http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/Video%20004/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find information on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

Someone once said that if you want to find out the truth follow the money.  The war on drug driving is a multi-million if not multi-billion dollar annual business.  Police and prosecutors want the funding from the state; the states want the dollars from the federal government.  Somewhere in this grab for cash is MADD pulling down millions to fund huge salaries for the higher ups.  MADD also takes donations from people and in some states forced donations given by convicted drunk drivers. 

How does the media, the government and MADD convince us to pay all of this money:  FEAR.  We are all convinced that drunk drivers are killing hoards of people every day.  The truth is distinctly different.  The federal government is grossly inflating the numbers of deaths actually caused by drunk drivers.  The feds use a number of methods to accomplish this such as calling the deaths alcohol related.  In that fashion some fatalities can be called alcohol related even though there was no drunk driver involved at all.  When I grew up that was called Lying.  The Feds, MADD and law enforcement don’t see it that way.  They see it as a way to make money.  You decide:  Watch the Video.

 

http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/Video002/

 

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find information on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

 

This is a very emotional topic for a lot of people.  The government, the media and MADD bombard us with numbers, statistics and pictures seeming to show that drunk drivers are a leading cause of death in our society.  

These groups would have us believe that it is essential that we surrender great sums of money, personal freedoms and our constitutional rights to stop the staggering death toll.  These groups endorse mandatory jail for drivers who exhibit no impaired driving but who are identified by a box as having a blood alcohol content of .08. 

Of course this box never measures the alcohol in the subjects’ blood; it measures the alcohol on the subjects’ breath.   Now the crime is having alcohol on your breath.Does this make any sense to imprison hundreds of thousands of Americans for merely having alcohol on their breath? 

Perhaps July 4^th, the date we celebrate our independence from the tyranny of the British, is a day we should contemplate our independence from the fear of DUI drivers and DUI enforcers. 

You decide, but first watch this video:

http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/video001/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding. For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in

Rockingham

County

VA; Harrisonburg VA;

Augusta

County

VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA;

Shenandoah

County

VA; and

Waynesboro VA.  

You can also find information on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

Coasting and drafting may save gasoline but they may also cost lives.  We need to be very careful in being penny wise and dollar foolish.  While NASCAR drivers may be comfortable with drafting, the elderly lady down the street may react poorly. 

The gas saving craze also involves superinflated tires to reduce friction and shutting down the engine while coasting, a method called ”pulse and glide.” This actually works but with many modern cars turning off the engine also turns off the power steering and power brakes.  So if you have to stop or change course quickly you are out of luck.

http://www.walletpop.com/2008/07/03/hypermiling-make-the-gas-pump-squeal-for-mercy/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find informaiton on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

I practice in Shenandoah

County

VA as well as in nearby counties and towns,

Rockingham

County

VA,

Augusta

County

VA, Woodstock VA, Staunton VA and

Harrisonburg VA.   

The following video by a Virginia police officer merely reinforces what I have always said:  in reckless driving cases give the officer your license and registration and then very politely tell him you want a lawyer for any questioning.   

You can’t afford to act differently. http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/Video006/  You can find information about Bob Keefer’s firm at:  www.BobKeeferLaw.com.

Bob Keefer represents people charged with DUI/ DWI, traffic tickets, speeding tickets and reckless driving in Elkton, Virginia; Bridgewater, Virginia; Verona, Virginia;  Harrisonburg, Virginia; Rockingham County, Virginia; Staunton, Virginia; Augusta County, Virginia; Page County, Virginia; Luray, Virginia; Woodstock, Virginia; Waynesboro, Virginia; and Shenandoah County, Virginia. 

Bob Keefer also represents students at James Madison University JMU, Bridgewater College, Eastern Mennonite University EMU, and Blue Ridge Community College charged with alcohol offenses such as underage possession, DWI/DUI and possession of marijuana.

You are required to give the police your license and registration.  You are not required to tell them why you think they decided to stop you; you are not required to explain where you were going; you are not required to share your thoughts on any subject whatsoever.  Be smart; don’t talk to the police — ever.  Watch this videotape and learn why silence is not the best policy; IT IS THE ONLY POLICY.

http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com/dui-dui/fce/vids/Video005/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find information on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

Harrisonburg VA and the surrounding towns, Staunton, Verona, Dayton, Woodstock, Bridgewater, Singers Glen as well as the surrounding counties, Rockingham, Augusta and Shenandoah VA, are all small town America — with big city law enforcement training.  Police officers are trained to exploit every contact with civilians to examine them for drugs, alcohol or any other illegal conduct.  Police officers are trained to be aggressive, aggressive, and aggressive.  You need to know how to appropriately deal with this “new” big city law enforcement training.

You fail to watch the linked video at your own peril.  Knowledge gives you the power to keep your self safe.

http://www.duidriver.net/reckless-driving/fce/8/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find informaiton on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

South Carolina requires that the DUI arrest and DUI breath testing be videotaped.  Those videos with audio insure that at trial the facts presented are what they are.  SC does not rely upon faulty memories, poor recollection or inherently biased testimony — South Carolina attempts to use the truth.  In this case the truth set State Senator Randy Scott free when some of that mandatory video was missing. 

http://www.charleston.net/videos/2008/apr/21/334/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find informaiton on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net

Louis Charles Alley, 35 years old, from Louisburg NC, was recently convicted on his tenth DUI charge in 17 years.  In this most recent charge, Alley registered a .10 on North Carolina’s evidentiary breath alcohol test device.  North Carolina is hoping to convict Mr. Alley under its habitual DWI law and make Alley a felon.  Alley has a history of driving even though he has no license.  Police officers who know Alley’s case say that tragedy is not an if but a when in his case.  Based on this case, it appears that Alley is the drunk driver that we all fear — the driver that may drive impaired and hurt us, our family or our friends. 

Despite that knowledge, North Carolina will not do the right thing and devote the resources to actually and realistically help Alley.  Instead, North Carolina will jail Alley for a time and then release him with no driver’s license.  Then, in order to work and obtain food, Alley will have to find transportation.  Eventually, Alley will go back to driving illegally and probably drinking while he does it.  Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars setting up roadblocks that catch few and violating the constutitional rights of all, why not assign a person 24/7 to Alley — trained substance abuse counselors who would help Alley, provide transportation for Alley to work, eat and carry on his life. 

Let’s identify the problem drunks, get them the help they need and keep the rest of us safe.  And save hundreds of millions of dollars in the process as well as save our Constitutional rights in the process. 

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3151569/

Our firm represents those charged with DWI/DUI, reckless driving as well as speeding.  For answers look at our E-Books:  http://www.bobkeeferlaw.com.  Bob Keefer has been a lawyer in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia since 1983  He represents clients in Rockingham County VA; Harrisonburg VA; Augusta County VA; Staunton VA; Woodstock VA; Shenandoah County VA; and Waynesboro VA.  You can also find informaiton on  http://www.keefercard.com; http://www.duidriver.net;  http://www.recklessdriving.net