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NJ Supreme Court: Kid’s Call Provided Sufficient Cause for DUI Stop
Published December 23, 2008
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a teenage daughter’s 911 call to police that her father was driving drunk was enough to justify a stop of his vehicle, even though the officers who arrested the man had not observed any erratic driving.
From the ruling summary:
“Based on the report to dispatch by defendant’s seventeen-year-old daughter, who identified herself, reported that her father was driving drunk, described the vehicle, and exposed herself to criminal prosecution if her report was knowingly false, there was reasonable and articulable suspicion of an offense to support a constitutional motor vehicle stop by the police.”
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