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Woodstock DUI Lawyer Bob Keefer: Even Prosecutors get charged with DWI DUI

31. October 2008 by admin.

Mike Ward was commonwealth’s attorney for Marshall and Calloway Counties in Kentucky.

Ward resigned that position as part of his resolution of his second DUI DWI arrest this year.

Ward will serve 7 days in jail, undergo rehab and have his license suspended for one year.

I am sure Ward deserves that deal; however, I hope it is open to regular citizens as well.

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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 people charged with DUI/DWI, traffic tickets and reckless driving in Broadway, Virginia; Grottoes, Virginia; Elkton, Virginia; Massanutten, Virginia; Timberville, Virginia; Dayton, Virginia; and Mount Crawford, Virginia; New Market, Virginia (VA); Mount Jackson, Virginia (VA); Toms Brook, Virginia (VA); Strasburg, Virginia (VA); Edinburg, Virginia (VA).

Bob Keefer also represents people with these charges in Churchville, Virginia (VA); Craigsville, Virginia (VA); Crimora, Virginia (VA); Fishersville, Virginia (VA); Fort Defiance, Virginia (VA); Greenville, Virginia (VA); Grottoes, Virginia (VA); Jolivue, Virginia (VA); Lyndhurst, Virginia (VA); Mount Sidney, Virginia (VA); Mount Solon, Virginia (VA); Sherando, Virginia (VA); Spring Hill, Virginia (VA); Steeles Tavern, Virginia (VA); Stuarts Draft, Virginia (VA); Verona, Virginia (VA); Weyers Cave, Virginia (VA).

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.

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Harrisonburg Reckless Driving Lawyer Bob Keefer: Now this is reckless driving!

31. October 2008 by admin.

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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.

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Bob Keefer also represents people with these charges in Churchville, Virginia (VA); Craigsville, Virginia (VA); Crimora, Virginia (VA); Fishersville, Virginia (VA); Fort Defiance, Virginia (VA); Greenville, Virginia (VA); Grottoes, Virginia (VA); Jolivue, Virginia (VA); Lyndhurst, Virginia (VA); Mount Sidney, Virginia (VA); Mount Solon, Virginia (VA); Sherando, Virginia (VA); Spring Hill, Virginia (VA); Steeles Tavern, Virginia (VA); Stuarts Draft, Virginia (VA); Verona, Virginia (VA); Weyers Cave, Virginia (VA).

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.

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31. October 2008 by admin.

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Rockingham County DUI Lawyer Bob Keefer: Even John Daly gets arrested for abusing alcohol.

31. October 2008 by admin.

John Daly got arrested in Winston Salem North Carolina for drunk in public outside a Hooters Restaurant.

Daly was treated by emergency personnel due to his apparent extreme intoxication.

Daly refused to go to the hospital so police held him at the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center for 24 hours until he sobered up.

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Staunton DWI DUI Virginia Lawyer Bob Keefer: DNA matches may not be so perfect afterall.

26. October 2008 by admin.

The verdict is out on DNA profiles

A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed. Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry.

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State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona’s DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.

The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.

The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.

In the years after her 2001 discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches – each seeming to defy impossible odds.

As word spread, these findings by a little-known lab worker raised questions about the accuracy of the FBI’s DNA statistics and ignited a legal fight over whether the nation’s genetic databases ought to be opened to wider scrutiny.

The FBI laboratory, which administers the national DNA database system, tried to stop distribution of Troyer’s results and began an aggressive behind-the-scenes campaign to block similar searches elsewhere, even those ordered by courts, a Times investigation found.

At stake is the credibility of the compelling odds often cited in DNA cases, which can suggest an all but certain link between a suspect and a crime scene.

When DNA from such clues as blood or skin cells matches a suspect’s genetic profile, it can seal his fate with a jury, even in the absence of other evidence. As questions arise about the reliability of ballistic, bite-mark and even fingerprint analysis, genetic evidence has emerged as the forensic gold standard, often portrayed in courtrooms as unassailable.

But DNA “matches” are not always what they appear to be. Although a person’s genetic makeup is unique, his genetic profile – just a tiny sliver of the full genome – may not be. Siblings often share genetic markers at several locations, and even unrelated people can share some by coincidence.

No one knows precisely how rare DNA profiles are. The odds presented in court are the FBI’s best estimates.

The Arizona search was, in effect, the first test of those estimates in a large state database, and the results were surprising, even to some experts.

Defense attorneys seized on the Arizona discoveries as evidence that genetic profiles match more often than the official statistics imply – and are far from unique, as the FBI has sometimes suggested.

Lawyers seek searches

Now, lawyers around the country are asking for searches of their own state databases.

Several scientists and legal experts as well want to test the accuracy of official statistics using the nearly 6 million profiles in CODIS, the national system that includes most state and local databases.

“DNA is terrific and nobody doubts it, but because it is so powerful, any chinks in its armor ought to be made as salient and clear as possible so jurors will not be overwhelmed by the seeming certainty of it,” said David Faigman, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, who specializes in scientific evidence.

FBI officials argue that, under their interpretation of federal law, use of CODIS is limited to criminal justice agencies. In their view, defense attorneys are allowed access to information about their specific cases, not the databases in general.

Bureau officials say critics have exaggerated or misunderstood the implications of Troyer’s discoveries.

Indeed, experts generally agree that most – but not all – of the Arizona matches were to be expected statistically because of the unusual way Troyer searched for them.

In a typical criminal case, investigators look for matches to a specific profile. But the Arizona search looked for any matches among all the thousands of profiles in the database, greatly increasing the odds of finding them.

As a result, Thomas Callaghan, head of the FBI’s CODIS unit, has dismissed Troyer’s findings as “misleading” and “meaningless.”

He urged authorities in several states to object to Arizona-style searches, advising them to tell courts that the probes could violate the privacy of convicted offenders, tie up crucial databases and even lead the FBI to expel offending states from CODIS – a penalty that could cripple states’ ability to solve crimes.

In one case, Callaghan advised state officials to raise the risk of expulsion with a judge, then told the officials that expulsion was unlikely to happen, according to a record of the conversation filed in court.

In an interview with The Times, Callaghan denied any effort to mislead the court.

The FBI’s arguments have persuaded courts in California and other states to block the searches. But in at least two states, judges overruled the objections.

The resulting searches found nearly 1,000 more pairs that matched at nine or more loci.

“I can appreciate why the FBI is worried about this,” said David Kaye, an expert on science and the law at Arizona State University and former member of a national committee that studied forensic DNA.

But “people’s lives do ride on this evidence,” he said. “It has got to be explained.”

Concerned about errors

From her first discovery in 2001, Troyer and her colleagues in the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Phoenix DNA lab were intrigued.

At the time, many states looked at only nine or fewer loci when searching for suspects. (States now commonly attempt to compare 13 loci, though often fewer are available from old or contaminated crime scene evidence.)

Based on Troyer’s results, she and her colleagues believed that a nine-locus match could point investigators to the wrong person.

“We felt it was interesting and just wanted people to understand it could happen,” said Troyer, who initially declined to be interviewed, then cautiously discussed her findings by telephone, with her bosses on the line.

“If you’re going to search at nine loci, you need to be aware of what it means,” said Todd Griffith, director of the Phoenix lab. “It’s not necessarily absolutely the guy.”

Troyer made a simple poster for a national conference of DNA analysts. It showed photos of the white man and the younger black man next to their remarkably similar genetic profiles.

Some who saw the poster said they had seen similar matches in their own labs.

But Bruce Budowle, an FBI scientist who specializes in forensic DNA, told colleagues of Troyer that such coincidental matches were to be expected.

Three years later, Bicka Barlow, a San Francisco defense attorney, came across a description of Troyer’s poster on the Internet.

Its implications became clear as she prepared to defend a client accused of a 20-year-old rape and murder.

A database search had found a nine-locus match between his DNA profile and semen found in the victim’s body. Based on FBI estimates, the prosecutor said the odds of a coincidental match were as remote as 1 in 108 trillion.

Recalling the Arizona discovery, Barlow wondered if there might be similar coincidental matches in California’s database – the world’s third-largest, with 360,000 DNA profiles at the time. The attorney called Troyer in Phoenix to learn more.

Troyer seemed eager to talk about her discovery, which still had her puzzled, Barlow recalled. The analyst told Barlow she had searched the growing Arizona database since the conference and found more pairs of profiles matching at nine and even 10 loci.

Encouraged, Barlow subpoenaed a new search of the Arizona database. Among about 65,000 felons, there were 122 pairs that matched at nine of 13 loci. Twenty pairs matched at 10 loci. One matched at 11 and one at 12, though both later proved to belong to relatives.

Barlow was stunned. At the time, such matches were almost unheard of.

That same year, Fred Bieber, a Harvard professor and expert in forensic DNA, testified in an unrelated criminal case that just once had he seen a pair of profiles matching at nine of 13 markers, and they belonged to brothers. He had heard of a 10-locus match between two men, but it was the result of incest – a man whose father was also his older brother.

Indeed, since 2000, the FBI has treated certain rare DNA profiles as essentially unique – attributable to a single individual “to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.”

Other crime labs have adopted the policy, and some no longer tell jurors there is even a possibility of a coincidental match.

Soon after Barlow received the results, Callaghan, the head of the FBI’s DNA database unit, reprimanded Troyer’s lab in Phoenix, saying it should have sought the permission of the FBI before complying with the court’s order in the San Francisco case.

Asked later whether Callaghan had threatened her lab, Troyer said in court, “I wouldn’t say it’s been threatened, but we have been reminded.”

Dwight Adams, director of the FBI lab at the time, faxed Griffith, Troyer’s boss, a letter saying the Arizona state lab was “under review” for releasing the search results.

“While we understand that the Arizona Department of Public Safety, acting in good faith, complied with a proper judicial court order in the release of the nine-loci search of your offender DNA records, this release of DNA data was not authorized,” Adams wrote, asking Arizona to take “appropriate corrective action.”

Arizona officials obtained a court order to prevent Barlow from sharing the results with anyone else.

But it was too late. After a judge found the Arizona results to be irrelevant in Barlow’s case, the defense attorney e-mailed them to a network of her colleagues and DNA experts around the country.

Soon, defense lawyers in other states were seeking what came to be known as “Arizona searches.”

‘Don’t panic’

For years, DNA’s strength in the courtroom has been the brute power of its numbers. It’s hard to argue with odds like 1 in 100 billion.

Troyer’s discovery threatened to turn the tables on prosecutors. At first blush, the Arizona matches appeared to contradict those statistics and the popular notion that DNA profiles, like DNA, were essentially unique.

Law enforcement experts scrambled to explain.

Three months after the court-ordered search in Arizona, Steven Myers, a senior DNA analyst at the California Department of Justice, gave a presentation to the Assn. of California Crime Lab Analysts. It was titled “Don’t Panic” – a hint at the alarm Troyer’s discovery had set off.

Many of the Arizona matches were predictable, Myers said, given the type of search Troyer had conducted.

In a database search for a criminal case, a crime scene sample would have been compared to every profile in the database – about 65,000 comparisons. But Troyer compared all 65,000 profiles in Arizona’s database to each other, resulting in about 2 billion comparisons. Each comparison made it more likely she would find a match.

When this “database effect” was considered, about 100 of the 144 matches Troyer had found were to be expected statistically, Myers found.

Troyer’s search also looked for matches at any of 13 genetic locations, while in a real criminal case the analyst would look for a particular profile – making a match far less likely.

Further, any nonmatching markers would immediately rule out a suspect. In the case of the black and white men who matched at nine loci, the four loci that differed – if available from crime scene evidence – would have ensured that the wrong man was not implicated.

The presence of relatives in the database could also account for some of Troyer’s findings, the FBI and other experts say. Whether that’s the case would require cumbersome research because the databases don’t contain identifying information, they say.

Some scientists are not satisfied by any of these explanations. They wonder whether Troyer’s findings signal flaws in the complex assumptions that underlie the FBI’s rarity estimates.

Behind the estimates

In the 1990s, FBI scientists estimated the rarity of each genetic marker by extrapolating from sample populations of a few hundred people from various ethnic or racial groups. The estimates for each marker are multiplied across all 13 loci to come up with a rarity estimate for the entire profile.

These estimates make assumptions about how populations mate and whether genetic markers are independent of each other. They also don’t account for relatives.

Bruce Weir, a statistician at the University of Washington who has studied the issue, said these assumptions should be tested empirically in the national database system.

“Instead of saying we predict there will be a match, let’s open it up and look,” Weir said.

Some experts predict that given the rapid growth of CODIS, such a search would produce one or more examples of unrelated people who are identical at all 13 loci.

Such a discovery was once unimaginable.

‘Dire consequences’

In January 2006, not long after Barlow distributed the results of the court-ordered search in Arizona, the FBI sent out a nationwide alert to crime labs warning of similar defense requests.

Soon after, the bureau’s arguments against the searches were being made in courtrooms around the country.

In California, Michael Chamberlain, a state Department of Justice official, persuaded judges that such a search could have “dire consequences” – violating the privacy of convicted offenders, shutting down the database for days and risking the state’s expulsion from the FBI’s national DNA system. All this for a search whose results would be irrelevant and misleading to jurors, Chamberlain argued.

When similar arguments were made in an Arizona case, the judge ruled that the search would be “nothing more than an interesting deep sea fishing expedition.”

But in Illinois and Maryland, courts ordered the searches to proceed, despite opposition from the FBI and state officials at every turn.

In July 2006, after Chicago-area defense attorneys sought a database search on behalf of a murder suspect, the FBI’s Callaghan held a telephone conference with Illinois crime lab officials.

The topic was “how to fight this,” according to lab officials’ summary of the conversation, which later became part of the court record.

Callaghan suggested they tell the judge that Illinois could be disconnected from the national database system, the summary shows. Callaghan then told the lab officials that “it would in fact be unlikely that IL would be disconnected,” according to the summary.

In an interview, Callaghan disputed he said that.

“I didn’t say it was unlikely to happen,” he said. “I was asked specifically, what’s the likelihood here? I said, I don’t know, but it takes a lot for a state to be cut off from the national database.”

A week later, the judge ordered the search. Lawyers for the lab then took the matter to the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing in part that Illinois could lose its access to the federal DNA database. The high court refused to block the search.

The result: 903 pairs of profiles matching at nine or more loci in a database of about 220,000.

State officials obtained a court order to prevent distribution of the results. The Times obtained them from a scientist who works closely with the FBI.

A ‘unilateral decision’

A similar fight occurred in a death penalty case in Maryland during the summer and fall of 2006.

The prosecutor saw a DNA match between a baseball cap dropped at the crime scene and the suspect as so definitive that he didn’t plan to tell the jury about the chance of a coincidental match, records show.

Seeking to cast doubt on the evidence, the defense persuaded the judge to order an “Arizona search” of the Maryland database. The state did not comply.

After the defense filed a contempt-of-court motion, Michelle Groves, the state’s DNA administrator, argued in court and in an affidavit that, based on conversations with Callaghan at the FBI, she believed the request was burdensome and possibly illegal.

According to Groves, Callaghan had told her that complying with the court order could lead Maryland to be disconnected from CODIS – a result Groves’ lawyer said would be ”catastrophic.“

Groves‘ affidavit was edited by FBI officials and the technology contractor that designed CODIS, court records show. Before submitting the affidavit, Groves wrote the group an e-mail saying, “Let’s see if this will work,” court records show.

It didn’t. After the judge, Steven Platt, rejected her arguments, Groves returned to court, saying the search was too risky. FBI officials had now warned her that it could corrupt the entire state database, something they would not help fix, she told the court.

Platt reaffirmed his earlier order, decrying Callaghan’s “unilateral” decision to block the search.

“The court will not accept the notion that the extent of a person’s due process rights hinges solely on whether some employee of the FBI chooses to authorize the use of the [database] software,” Platt wrote.

The search went ahead in January 2007. The system did not go down, nor was Maryland expelled from the national database system.

In a database of fewer than 30,000 profiles, 32 pairs matched at nine or more loci. Three of those pairs were “perfect” matches, identical at 13 out of 13 loci.

Experts say they most likely are duplicates or belong to identical twins or brothers. It’s also possible that one of the matches is between unrelated people – defying odds as remote as 1 in 1 quadrillion.

Maryland officials never did the research to find out.

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maura.dolan@latimes.com

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Timberville DUI DWI Virginia Lawyer Bob Keefer: Sometimes the police abuse citizens.

26. October 2008 by admin.

Michael Mineo, a 24 year old Brooklyn NY man, is recovering from physical injuries received during his arrest for possession of marijuana. Mineo’s attorney maintains that Mineo was seen smoking a marijuana joint by police.

Mineo fled before being tackled and allegedly beaten with police standing on his neck.

Police allegedly then removed his pants and inserted a radio antenna into Mineo’s rectum.

If this happened, such abuse by police cannot be tolerated in our society.

Never, never, never run from police or you may suffer dire consequence.

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Bob Keefer also represents people charged with DUI/DWI, traffic tickets and reckless driving in Broadway, Virginia; Grottoes, Virginia; Elkton, Virginia; Massanutten, Virginia; Timberville, Virginia; Dayton, Virginia; and Mount Crawford, Virginia; New Market, Virginia (VA); Mount Jackson, Virginia (VA); Toms Brook, Virginia (VA); Strasburg, Virginia (VA); Edinburg, Virginia (VA).

Bob Keefer also represents people with these charges in Churchville, Virginia (VA); Craigsville, Virginia (VA); Crimora, Virginia (VA); Fishersville, Virginia (VA); Fort Defiance, Virginia (VA); Greenville, Virginia (VA); Grottoes, Virginia (VA); Jolivue, Virginia (VA); Lyndhurst, Virginia (VA); Mount Sidney, Virginia (VA); Mount Solon, Virginia (VA); Sherando, Virginia (VA); Spring Hill, Virginia (VA); Steeles Tavern, Virginia (VA); Stuarts Draft, Virginia (VA); Verona, Virginia (VA); Weyers Cave, Virginia (VA).

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.

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Staunton DWI DUI Virginia Lawyer Bob Keefer: Get a good lawyer like Football legend Kenny Stabler did and beat the DUI DWI charge.

24. October 2008 by admin.

Kenny “The Snake” Stabler starred at as quarterback atAlabama and then played for the Oakland Raiders, the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints.

Stabler has been arrested for driving under the influence three times.

He pleaded no contest in Escambia County, Florida in 1995, and pleaded guilty to DUI in Orange

Beach in 2001.

Most recently he was arrested in Robertsdale near his hometown of Foley on June 8, 2008.

Kenny was acquitted in October, 2008 on this charge through the efforts of fellow NCDD member Mark Polson.

Mark Polson is an extremely qualified Alabama trial lawyer specializing in DUI defense. Kenny chose his counsel well.

The officer stopped Kenny because he failed to move over as he passed the officer with another stopped motorist at roadside.

The video showed no speeding, weaving and a prompt stop in a safe matter when emergency lights were activated.

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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 people charged with DUI/DWI, traffic tickets and reckless driving in Broadway, Virginia; Grottoes, Virginia; Elkton, Virginia; Massanutten, Virginia; Timberville, Virginia; Dayton, Virginia; and Mount Crawford, Virginia; New Market, Virginia (VA); Mount Jackson, Virginia (VA); Toms Brook, Virginia (VA); Strasburg, Virginia (VA); Edinburg, Virginia (VA).

Bob Keefer also represents people with these charges in Churchville, Virginia (VA); Craigsville, Virginia (VA); Crimora, Virginia (VA); Fishersville, Virginia (VA); Fort Defiance, Virginia (VA); Greenville, Virginia (VA); Grottoes, Virginia (VA); Jolivue, Virginia (VA); Lyndhurst, Virginia (VA); Mount Sidney, Virginia (VA); Mount Solon, Virginia (VA); Sherando, Virginia (VA); Spring Hill, Virginia (VA); Steeles Tavern, Virginia (VA); Stuarts Draft, Virginia (VA); Verona, Virginia (VA); Weyers Cave, Virginia (VA).

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.

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Harrisonburg DUI DWI Virginia Lawyer Bob Keefer: Even Springfield Police Officers get charged with DWI DUI

24. October 2008 by admin.

Joseph Motte, a Springfield police officer has been charged with six charges out of an alleged drunk driving incident on October 22, 208.Officer Motte allegedly did not stop after he struck a tractor trailer.

Officer Motte subsequently ran off the road.

Authorities found a whiskey bottle and beer cans in his vehicle.

Officer Motte was placed on paid leave pending the resolution of his charges.

Only a felony conviction would insure that Officer Motte, a ten year veteran would lose his job.

Officer Motte was charged with possessing two firearms while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident, DWI, and two charges of imprudent driving.

I am glad Officer Motte is keeping his taxpayer funded job while his charges are resolved; I only hope that regular citizens are given the same option of keeping their pay while charges are resolved.

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.