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"crime",
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"police can book people on DUI even if they pass field sobriety tests",
"blow under the limit on a breathalyzer",
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"textContent": "\n\nCourts have held that police can book people on DUI even if they pass field sobriety tests and blow under the limit on a breathalyzer. The predictable result is an explosion of false DUI charges. In Tennessee, 41 DUI arrests made by a single Highway Patrol officer were dismissed; local media found that 22 of the cases involved drivers with no alcohol or drugs in their systems. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Cops' new weird trick: fake DUI charges for everyone they pull over appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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