i also was caused a panic attack by cops after 3 surrounded me. i am only 5′2 i do have panic disorder.

i won my appeal by my lawyer for rejection of dr letters by medical review board. they waved the car breathalyzer.

the cops, dmv suervision etc needs to be held responsible for
abuse of those with disabilites.
i know i am going to see what can be done, i can’t take this woman’s abuse for another two yrs. she knows why i didn’t have my license back my lawyer wrote a letter explaining what is being done.
they still denied me a reduction in apts that i am supposed to have now.

diane

Thank you for your valuable site!

I wish to bring your attention to something extraordinarily dangerous:
Here in Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol routinely arrests motorists who are prescribed medication by their physicians–even if they have not taken their medication that day!

Many physicians tell their patients to lie, if they are involved in a traffic stop.

I was pulled over just after midnight on Friday, February thirteenth, just after midnight. A holiday weekend. I was returning from Fedex/Kinkos. It was snowing, and there were almost no vehicles on the road.

I was pulled over for “weaving” which is impossible to do if, driving on fresh snow, one cannot discern the precise lane markings. I was ordered to perform the three roadside tests, despite a severely sprained ankle.

The first was nystagmus. ” I asked the trooper, “Sir, please stop jerking the pen.” This angered him. I then said, “Sir, please stop shining your flashlight in my right eye. This will affect my binocular vision, and therefore, my balance.” He said, “I have to see your pupils.” Pupils dilate in response to fear–and I was terrified, and in pain.

Despite the pain, snow, and the trooper’s refusal to adequately explain or demonstrate the balance tests, I performed them perfectly.

The trooper asked if I had any medical conditions. I listed them: ADD, PTSD, the ankle, a kidney infection, severe myopia, lasik surgery, a fractured orbital and head trauma from a 2005 assault, asthma, and COPD.

He asked “Do you take any prescription medication?” I listed them: “Adderall for ADD, diazepam for insomnia and panic attacks, and an inhaler.”

He made me blow in the tube three times. After each, he yelled “You’re not doing it right! You’re playing games!” Perhaps because I was blowing zero.

His abuse made me have a panic attack. The ambulance came, and the paramedics checked my vital signs and helped me calm down.

Then, the trooper cuffed me and took me to jail!

He said they were going to take samples of my blood and urine.

I was dazed and dehydrated. At the jail, I begged for some water. “Not til after you give us your blood and urine.”

I was traumatized and confused. I asked to read the statute, call my attorney, my boyfriend, or at least speak with the supervisor. “You can’t! It was on your driver’s license test! Ignorance of the law is no excuse! I’m putting you down as a refusal, and you’re going to lose your license for a year!”

Then the nurse gave me two cups of Gatorade. I instantly felt much better. “Are you going to take my blood now?” “Too late! You refused!”

I never refused. I cooperated, to the extent of walking on an ankle the size of a volleyball.

At no point did the trooper ask what medication, if any, I had taken that day. The answer would have been “Ibuprofin and nicotine lozenges.”

If I had been under the influence of any sedative, it would have been physically impossible to have a panic attack. The trooper’s abuse CAUSED the panic attack. I asked questions, and was not only denied answers, I was kept in jail overnight and they took my license.

My boyfriend, whose vehicle I was following, witnessed the whole thing. If I had been unable to safely drive, he would have just driven me to our home.

On the citation, the trooper checked “No odor of alcohol” and “Balance–normal.”

Eyes, of course, were “bloodshot and glassy.”

Now I have to retain an attorney, and I am guilty only of driving late at night, on a holiday weekend, and suffering from several disabilities.

Amazing, isn’t it?

we need to get madder than madd and stand up for rights.
the dmv has become a para police agency.

the police have gone over board suspecting every traffic stop as dui.
in smallers towns like whwew i am jupiter, fl its all about revenue. also cops wanting to make a name for themselves.
come on i am 5′2 three cops surronding me, making my panic disorder go off so i went a few 100 ft to my house. than more cops showed up high speed chase through a gated community.

3 1/2 yrs later i go through harassment monthly at supervision cause i don’t have my license back. they know why lawyer sent a letter.
last month they contact the medical review board with out my constant. wanted my drs name i said no contact my lawyer. woman wrote down i said that made a nasty commenton her report.
my lawyer was advised.
i done everything , no violzations, early term of probation. went to treatment on my own before court.
have letters stating the status of my life is stable and i want to move on.
at the time of arrest my fiance was dieing of liver failure. i was his care giver.
we all need to stand up and sat enough write out legislators, contact the media, etc.

i am going too

diane

do fight with all your might, even talk to several lawyers or public defenders don’t just take a plea. look for loop holes. i got talked into taking a plea and now have to do 3 yrs bs dmv supervision.
my email is elfin1@comcast.net
feel free to9 email me if you need some help

diane

I currently conduct field investigations for a prominent DUI attorney in Mississippi. What is your feeling on how effective investigations are in the outcome of the verdict? Sometimes I need a different point of view. Thanks in advance,

David