Distracted Driving: 63% of drivers under age 30 admit to driving while on the phone. Almost 30% admit to having sent text messages while driving. In 2009, nearly 5,500 people in the U.S. were killed in distracted driving crashes. This is an emerging crisis on American roads, and it is headed directly to your court rooms.
Judge Peggy Hora (Ret.) of California, a renowned traffic safety expert and lecturer, will provide you with information and insights to prepare you to handle these vexing cases.
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests: Any judge handling impaired driving cases spends a fair amount of time listening to testimony about standardized field sobriety tests. Which of these tests have been found to have value? Which information should be ignored? Why are they important in an impaired driving case? It can be confusing to the judicial practitioner, especially those who have limited responses and access to training. This segment will provide you with the information that you need to sort through the testimony and assign the varying tests the weight that they deserve.
Charles Hayes, a retired law enforcement practitioner and expert trainer for the International Association of Chiefs of Police will guide this presentation.
Our Expert Faculty
Hon. Peggy Fulton Hora, Superior Court of California (Retired), Walnut Creek, CA
Charles Hayes, Regional Coordinator, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Salem, OR
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