The Chicago Police Department set up a DUI road block on Halsted. My client was required to pull in. The Chicago Officers observed my client to have a strong odor of cannabis on his breath. The officers asked my client if he had been smoking cannabis to which my client replied that he had been smoking earlier. My client’s eyes were also bloodshot and glass.
In the State of Illinois, an individual cannot have “any” cannabis in his system while operating a motor vehicle. It doesn’t matter if they are driving bad, fail the field sobriety tests or even take any field sobriety tests! As long as the police can show that you have “any amount” of drugs in your system, that is enough to prove you guilty of a DUI. So, we have to fight. We demanded trial and made the State of Illinois and the Chicago Police Department prove what they were alleging. They couldn’t do it! Because they could not bring him to trial within 160 days the case was dismissed. We filed a demand for speedy trial and won because of it!
