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P. Finney
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Hello, just last nite 3/23/2002 while I was driving my truck I began to have a low sugar attack (diabetic) so as I was reaching into my coat pocket for a sucker with chewing gum I went into a deep ditch and was stuck around 8 pm.
Earlier that afternoon around 6:30 pm I had drank a couple of beers and for the previous two days or so I had not been able to sleep because of chronic pain ( disabled vet.) so I was also very tired.
I got out of my truck and locked it up, while getting out of the ditch I lost my keys.
When I started to walk down a county gravel road a man stopped and asked if I was ok because he saw my truck in the ditch and I said that I was. He said that he would call a tow truck for me and I said that I'd take care of it tomorrow. I asked him for a ride to the main road but he was going the other way.
I continued walking and was about 1/2 mile away from my truck and a state trooper stopped me to ask what I was doing and I told him that I was walking home unless I got a ride and he asked if the truck in the ditch was mine and I said yes then another police car pulled up.
The trooper asked if I had been drinking and I said yes a couple earlier. He asked me to get into his car and took my drivers lisc. then told me to take a pre breath test and I did while I was still chewing the gum. Then he told me to get out of the car and put cuffs on me and said I was under arrest. He had asked me to do some other test but I said that I had nothing to say until I talked with an attorney.
He took me to the police station and let me call an attorney and waited for about 20 minutes without a return call. He told me that I had to give a urine sample and I said ok and that I'd like to give a blood sample also but instead of doing that he had me sign a form saying that I refused to test because I would not say anything else without an attorney first.
He then fingered printed me and took my picture then left and the jailer said I was being locked up for 20 hours and I would get out at about 5:20 pm. and I did.
This is my first dwi charge and it doesn't seem like this is right does anyone know a good attorney here in the bootheel of Missouri, Please help
Earlier that afternoon around 6:30 pm I had drank a couple of beers and for the previous two days or so I had not been able to sleep because of chronic pain ( disabled vet.) so I was also very tired.
I got out of my truck and locked it up, while getting out of the ditch I lost my keys.
When I started to walk down a county gravel road a man stopped and asked if I was ok because he saw my truck in the ditch and I said that I was. He said that he would call a tow truck for me and I said that I'd take care of it tomorrow. I asked him for a ride to the main road but he was going the other way.
I continued walking and was about 1/2 mile away from my truck and a state trooper stopped me to ask what I was doing and I told him that I was walking home unless I got a ride and he asked if the truck in the ditch was mine and I said yes then another police car pulled up.
The trooper asked if I had been drinking and I said yes a couple earlier. He asked me to get into his car and took my drivers lisc. then told me to take a pre breath test and I did while I was still chewing the gum. Then he told me to get out of the car and put cuffs on me and said I was under arrest. He had asked me to do some other test but I said that I had nothing to say until I talked with an attorney.
He took me to the police station and let me call an attorney and waited for about 20 minutes without a return call. He told me that I had to give a urine sample and I said ok and that I'd like to give a blood sample also but instead of doing that he had me sign a form saying that I refused to test because I would not say anything else without an attorney first.
He then fingered printed me and took my picture then left and the jailer said I was being locked up for 20 hours and I would get out at about 5:20 pm. and I did.
This is my first dwi charge and it doesn't seem like this is right does anyone know a good attorney here in the bootheel of Missouri, Please help