I've been a recent increase in drunk driving cases at the Plymouth District Court. A lot of these cases are coming from Canton Township and Northville with a fair share from the Plymouth area. This is probably a result of extra DUI patrols working the streets at night, and more people on the road due to the somewhat improved weather.
Drunk driving cases at the 35th District Court are a huge moneymaker, and it's a good investment to send police officers out on the road to make these arrests. What we all need to be cautious of, are officers stepping outside of U.S. Constitution and making illegal traffic stops. A police officer cannot simply pull a car over because they suspect the driver is drunk based purely on speculation, time and circumstance. The officer needs to have a reasonable suspicious that the driver violated the Michigan traffic code. This violation can be the smallest violation, but there needs to be one.
I tell clients that a traffic violation at 2 pm and 2 am are going to be treated very differently. If you violate the code at 2 pm, you probably won't be pulled over, because there are so many more cars, police officers are doing other things and the reward of pulling a car over is probably only a $100-$200 ticket. The same violation at 2 am, has a higher probability that the traffic stop may lead to a DUI arrest or drug possession bust, which could bring thousands to the city or township.
DUI cases in Michigan are nothing more than money-makers for the government. You need to be an educated consumer in the market of DUI charges. Don't run to the courthouse to pay top dollar for what you thought was against the law. You may have not done anything illegal or even if you did, the police were outside of their powers, and your case should be dismissed.
Drunk driving cases at the 35th District Court are a huge moneymaker, and it's a good investment to send police officers out on the road to make these arrests. What we all need to be cautious of, are officers stepping outside of U.S. Constitution and making illegal traffic stops. A police officer cannot simply pull a car over because they suspect the driver is drunk based purely on speculation, time and circumstance. The officer needs to have a reasonable suspicious that the driver violated the Michigan traffic code. This violation can be the smallest violation, but there needs to be one.
I tell clients that a traffic violation at 2 pm and 2 am are going to be treated very differently. If you violate the code at 2 pm, you probably won't be pulled over, because there are so many more cars, police officers are doing other things and the reward of pulling a car over is probably only a $100-$200 ticket. The same violation at 2 am, has a higher probability that the traffic stop may lead to a DUI arrest or drug possession bust, which could bring thousands to the city or township.
DUI cases in Michigan are nothing more than money-makers for the government. You need to be an educated consumer in the market of DUI charges. Don't run to the courthouse to pay top dollar for what you thought was against the law. You may have not done anything illegal or even if you did, the police were outside of their powers, and your case should be dismissed.
