The Opening Statement In A DUI Trial
By Stephen Hayne Looking back on 23 years in the trenches of DUI warfare, I wonder How could I have worked so hard, struggled so much, and learned so [...]
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The Ten Commandments of Defending DUIs
By Steve Hayne of Hayne, Fox & Bowman Introduction Take a look around. Did you notice? Not a beady-eyed prosecution spy within 500 yards. Why? Because we banned ’em, (along [...]
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Getting off on the Right Foot: Opening Statements in a DUI Trial
By Steve Hayne December 12, 2003 The prosecutor has just finished her opening statement and the judge ask if you wish to respond, or reserve. You don’t really want to [...]
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Cross Examination Of The BA TECH 101: A Back To Basics Approach To Creating Reasonable…
By Steve Hayne I. REALITY SETS IN. Our firm has been studying the BAC DataMaster since its inception as the “Verifier” in 1984. A few years ago, we even bought a [...]
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Avoiding Quicksand in the A swamp of Science
A back-to-basics approach to cross-examination of the state’s breath test expert. BY STEVE HAYNE We Have Met the Enemy… and He is Us 1 It’s hard to believer it’s been [...]
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The DWI Case Cross Examination Checklist
BY STEVE HAYNE I. THE POLICE REPORT Purpose: to get the cop in the corral. You don’t want miraculous on-the-spot recollec-tion of harmful facts not in the report. You wrote [...]
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The Trial Master’s Program; The New DUI Laws
By Steve Hayne The most recent amendments to the DUI laws offer both challenges and opportunities to the DUI practitioner. One of the most significant changes to the DUI laws [...]
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Using Jury Selection to Reverse The Momentum to Convict
By Steve Hayne For almost eight centuries trial by jury remainsthe best, safest, surest, and perhaps the only bulwark to protect the basic rights of the average citizen. It is [...]
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