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Old 10-24-2009, 07:24 PM  
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
I would assume that any decent attorney would get his statement thrown out and not have it allowed in court. He would argue that because he was drunk he didn't understand what he was saying or doing, In the case of a car wreck you still have the wrecked car as evidence, but if there were no witnesses it might be hard to prove this guy did it even with his taped confession.

That is to say if he decides to fight it.
My take on that is that because the video tape was evidence of the sobriety test it can't
be ruled out of evidence so the jury will hear the statements made at that time.
So it's up to the jury as to how much the statements mean.

The jury saw the entire video tape in this case.
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