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On December 19 2011 09:28 UniversalSnip wrote:Show nested quote +On December 19 2011 06:59 Mr. Nefarious wrote:
I hate cops. I was arrested for DUI when I was completely sober because of an utterly subjective sobriety test. I was arrested and taken back to the station where I blew .0000 into their breathalyzer twice, gave blood and was released. They still tried to prosecute based on the completely subjective sobriety test, ignoring the hard scientific evidence that they themselves collected from me. I hired a former prosecutor as my lawyer who got my case dismissed after one hearing and helped me to sue the officer for harassment. After realizing his life and career was over because of his abusive treatment of honest citizens, he committed suicide to get out of the problems he'd created for himself. Absolutely pathetic. At least in the United States, many (NOT ALL) but many officers have absolutely no care for the actual citizens and care only about their numbers, harassing and arresting honest people who are doing absolutely nothing wrong.
The LEO who arrested me was Officer Kevin Weeks of the Tempe Police Department. Jim Tinker, former Phoenix Prosecutor helped to shut him down and called his case against me "An embarrassment, devoid of any merit or logic".
Don't be one of these guys. After experiences like these, can you really blame honest citizens for not wanting these bullies around? If find your glorying in the fact that he committed suicide pretty disgusting. I don't think you've promoted your view at all by posting in this thread.
I agree completely. It's not his decision whether or not to prosecute you, you know that right? Also, he doesn't design the sobriety tests and it's not his fault you failed it. The situation probably could have been handled in a better way (by both of you, judging from the tone in your post) but it doesn't mean it's right to gloat about some guy killing himself.
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On December 19 2011 06:59 Mr. Nefarious wrote:
I hate cops. I was arrested for DUI when I was completely sober because of an utterly subjective sobriety test. I was arrested and taken back to the station where I blew .0000 into their breathalyzer twice, gave blood and was released. They still tried to prosecute based on the completely subjective sobriety test, ignoring the hard scientific evidence that they themselves collected from me. I hired a former prosecutor as my lawyer who got my case dismissed after one hearing and helped me to sue the officer for harassment. After realizing his life and career was over because of his abusive treatment of honest citizens, he committed suicide to get out of the problems he'd created for himself. Absolutely pathetic. At least in the United States, many (NOT ALL) but many officers have absolutely no care for the actual citizens and care only about their numbers, harassing and arresting honest people who are doing absolutely nothing wrong.
The LEO who arrested me was Officer Kevin Weeks of the Tempe Police Department. Jim Tinker, former Phoenix Prosecutor helped to shut him down and called his case against me "An embarrassment, devoid of any merit or logic".
Don't be one of these guys. After experiences like these, can you really blame honest citizens for not wanting these bullies around?
http://www.odmp.org/officer/18527-officer-kevin-louis-weeks
Officer Kevin Weeks died from a motorcycle accident after crashing from railroad construction debris. Unless you'd like to explain otherwise?
Frankly, I never gave you much credit to begin with from your post opening with "I hate cops."
You were arrested because he had reason to pull you over. Something you did caught his eye. And then you failed a sobriety test, which I guess you claim was pass-proof. I'm not dismissing your story, nor am I generalizing you in this category; It's just amazing how all the shitheads somehow run into the most corrupt and evil officers out there.
I don't believe you're this innocent victim you play it out to be, but I'd love to hear more of your story.
Edit: Ah, I guess I can just read your account, although different this time, again here (roughly half-way down): http://arizonashooting.com/v3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=111737&start=15
I was arrested for drunk driving after blowing .0000 TWICE into a breathalyzer. The machine at the station showed the same result. A blood sample was taken which ended up coming back with the same result. I was charged with "DUI - Impaired to the slightest degree" based solely on my field sobriety test. My case made it to one hearing before it was tossed out. My lawyer (Jim Tinker, very highly recommended) stated that he had previously had clients with similar cases with this single officer. Officer Kevin Weeks was the LEO. He is no longer with the Tempe PD, he flipped his motorcycle at high speed on the University offramp when it was closed for lightrail construction. There was never any reason found for him to be driving at high speed at night on the closed offramp.
** I have nothing against LEOs. This was a single officer who for some reason did not like me despite getting all "Yes sir's" and "No sir's". This was right after Arizona started the "Expect the Max" program and my location of University and McClintock did not help the situation. I still do not feel as though he made the right choice however. Please don't turn this into an LEO bashing thread. This is not what this is. This is a single event that took place. All of the LEO's I have come into contact with before and since have been professional, courteous and kind.
And pertaining to the bold text, the offramp was open at the time (although it had periods of closures). Taken from here, an article covering the accident:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0929officer0929.html
..."Who put these (railroad ties) there? When were they there? That's what we will be looking at," he said. The investigation could last up to eight weeks, DPS Sgt. Harold Sanders said. ...
..Since January, crews have been building a replacement and systematically dismantling the old bridge, which has resulted in periodic road closures...
Note: there is no mention of speed being a factor. There IS mention of time of accident (4:15am) from a witness and low visibility. Nothing pertaining to high speeds.
BUT LOOK! from the same article: According to the U.S. Department of Labor's worker safety database, Phoenix-based Sundt Construction Inc. has been cited for 12 violations, nine serious, and slapped with $7,700 in proposed fines. Its light-rail partner, California-based Stacey-Witbeck Inc., was imposed $900 for four violations, of which only one was serious.
This is the construction company that was responsible for the light rail project. A tad sloppy from their cleanup don't you think from their past records?
It is assumed it would of been mentioned in the article if the road was closed at the time of the accident. So along with that presumption and the implication of the Sgt's quote that it was infact not closed, I'm wondering why you lied about offramp closure and high speeds, much less a suicide. Also, can you describe the events leading up to how you got pulled over in the first place?
Since you're pretty accustomed to telling it online in other forums as well (albeit told 4 years after he died, let alone when your DUI occurred, and different from your original TL post on the matter), I'm wondering how you got suicide from all this. And if you openly admit why you lied about the suicide, why would you make that up?
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On December 19 2011 09:28 UniversalSnip wrote:Show nested quote +On December 19 2011 06:59 Mr. Nefarious wrote:
I hate cops. I was arrested for DUI when I was completely sober because of an utterly subjective sobriety test. I was arrested and taken back to the station where I blew .0000 into their breathalyzer twice, gave blood and was released. They still tried to prosecute based on the completely subjective sobriety test, ignoring the hard scientific evidence that they themselves collected from me. I hired a former prosecutor as my lawyer who got my case dismissed after one hearing and helped me to sue the officer for harassment. After realizing his life and career was over because of his abusive treatment of honest citizens, he committed suicide to get out of the problems he'd created for himself. Absolutely pathetic. At least in the United States, many (NOT ALL) but many officers have absolutely no care for the actual citizens and care only about their numbers, harassing and arresting honest people who are doing absolutely nothing wrong.
The LEO who arrested me was Officer Kevin Weeks of the Tempe Police Department. Jim Tinker, former Phoenix Prosecutor helped to shut him down and called his case against me "An embarrassment, devoid of any merit or logic".
Don't be one of these guys. After experiences like these, can you really blame honest citizens for not wanting these bullies around? If find your glorying in the fact that he committed suicide pretty disgusting. I don't think you've promoted your view at all by posting in this thread.
He's clearly venting because he's been a victim of corrupt cops. He probably posted this as a warning to the OP as to the dangers of corruption in uniform. If I was in his shoes I probably wouldn't feel too bad for the poor schmuck either.
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On December 20 2011 00:46 PassiveAce wrote:
He's clearly venting because he's been a victim of corrupt cops. He probably posted this as a warning to the OP as to the dangers of corruption in uniform. If I was in his shoes I probably wouldn't feel too bad for the poor schmuck either.
Policemen join the force for all sorts of reason, some good, some bad. Some wish to protect the innocent, other do it for the want of authority and sense of power. And then are 100 reasons in between.
It sounds like the OP is in it for the right reasons! Kudos! As long as you keep that immortal motto: "To Serve and Protect" close to your heart, you'll be fine.
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Hello, I'd like to respond to Horrde here as he seems to think I'm lying or making stuff up, despite my knowledge of exact names, dates and situations of the parties involved. I also still have my copy of the pink arrest sheet, showing the exact details of my arrest, the conditions I was arrested under and the accusations levied against me. I should note, I was not charged with "DUI", I was charged with the very rarely used: "DUI: Impaired to the slightest degree". You can read the details of this interesting charge here:
"IMPAIRMENT TO THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE
ARS 28-1381(A)(1)
If you are driving and under the influence, even to the slightest degree, you can be charged and convicted of DUI in Arizona regardless of your actual body alcohol content, or the amount of active drugs in your system.
In theory, the prosecution can charge you with an Arizona DUI even if your BAC is under the legal limit. However, for adults, you will rarely be charged if your BAC is under 0.050."
Now that we've cleared up the actual crime I was charged with, let's continue.
Officer Kevin Weeks was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident on the University on-ramp, no one disputes that. During September of 2006, this on-ramp WAS closed due to light-rail construction in the area. I would know, as during 2006 I was attending ASU which guess what, is located on University only a few miles away from where his accident occurred as well as where my arrest occurred. His initial obituary which you quoted even clearly states this:
"Officer Weeks entered the freeway at the University ramp, where he ran into some railroad ties in the roadway and flipped his motorcycle at about 4:15 am. The railroad ties were part of construction debris from an adjoining light rail project. The accident occurred under a bridge where visibility was very limited."
Visibility was limited because the lights under the bridge were off due to light rail construction and the on-ramp being closed due to the aforementioned construction. I must admit my assertion that Officer Weeks committed suicide is only a hypothesis. It certainly could have been an innocent accident, however the circumstances surrounding the accident were never clearly answered. Why was he on a closed on-ramp at 4:15am which was out of his patrol area, while not on a call or chasing a subject? Notice how not a single report addresses this. The debris were not in the middle of the 101 freeway as some reports seem to suggest, many cars would've come into contact with them long before Officer Weeks ever did. The accident was at the end of the on-ramp. I was unfortunate enough to see the aftermath with my own eyes traveling to school the next day however I did not find out it was Officer Weeks until several weeks later. The only reason I ever found out it was Officer Weeks was because I was pursuing legal action against him because of how I was treated by him. In fact, I was not alone in pursuing legal action against Officer Weeks. My lawyer, former Phoenix Prosecutor Jim Tinker who specializes in DUI, knew him well. He told me he had handled and successfully defended many cases brought fourth by Officer Weeks. Successfully defended is interesting, you basically cannot get out of a DUI unless you're innocent. Lets look at some numbers as they can be quite revealing:
Mentioned in this obituary here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eastvalleytribune/obituary.aspx?n=kevin-weeks&pid=19403555
"Mothers Against Drunk Driving honored Weeks in April as the organization’s 2005 outstanding police officer.
Sgt. John Butler, head of Tempe’s DUI task force, nominated Weeks for the honor, giving Weeks credit for 282 arrests and 2,100 citations related to alcohol and drug impairment."
During my time with Mr. Tinker, he mentioned that such numbers were staggering. With only 365 days in a year, 282 arrests is mind bending. The sheer paper work required through such volume would be tremendous, not to mention the fact that nearly everyone he came in contact with was miraculously a criminal and driving drunk. Being a former Prosecutor, Mr. Tinker is acutely aware of these types of details. Given my case information and the curious history of Officer Weeks arrest records, we've started to get an idea of what was going on here.
The final point I'd like to address is something you mentioned early on in your post. You stated I must have done something wrong in order to get his attention in the first place. You are correct, I'll give you a quick synopsis of what happened. I was pulled over for making a wide right turn. This is when you make a right turn into the middle lane instead of the farthest right lane. Listed speed on my pink arrest slip is 15mph in a 35mph zone (I had barely completed the turn was I was pulled over). Many people (including myself at the time), do not even know this is illegal. Police Officers actually use this to tell if someone is drunk... however I would argue 90% of the time people do this is because they don't actually know its illegal; ever since I was arrested over it I've been watching others and I've seen countless Police Officers guilty of making wide rights as well as average people. After I was pulled over I was immediately pulled out of my vehicle and told to take the sobriety test. Being 18 and not knowing my rights, I complied. After completing the tests, I was told I failed because I swayed 1" side to side and back to back after 39 seconds on 1 foot, as well as estimating 30 seconds at 30.5 seconds. I was too slow on the 30 second test and slow means you're drunk. These are clearly stated as reasons for my arrest on my pink arrest form along with the charge, DUI - Impaired to the slightest degree.
In my opinion, Officer Weeks was a very smart police officer. He knew how to do his job and he knew how to do it well. Because of this, I simply do not believe he thought I was drunk. His extensive 7 year history on the force and endless training clearly showed he had the knowledge and skill to determine who was actually intoxicated and who was not. All signs pointed to me being completely sober, including his own sobriety test, breathalyzer and blood test. Instead, I simply became a number, another notch on his belt to boost his arrest count and possible awards. You are free to come to your own conclusion, however I hope I've cleared up any concerns or confusion about my statement earlier.
A little insight on my earlier post to clarify the last issue: No, I don't actually hate LEOs, there are a lot of good ones out there as well. I got fired up earlier because it makes me really angry to think about this. I was a young kid who had his life nearly destroyed for no reason. I was innocent and a good kid trying to get through college. I blew straight .0000's into a breathalyzer and on top of that he said I failed a sobriety test over those reasons? His definition of drunk driving is pretty off if you ask me, or there's something else going on. Take your pick.
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Great write-up. I've often thought about becoming a police officer as a back up career if things don't work out too well in post secondary, and I always enjoy reading about such things. I was very fortunate to take a class in my last year of high school where we had our local police show up several times for Q/A, and thanks to our teacher being a good sport it was basically a no holds barred story of how to become a police officer in Canada.
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Yep, I've done a ride along with my best friend. Hrm.. can't believe he made you sit in the back. I wanted to sit there for a bit just to see how it was and he said you don't wanna know what they do back there sometimes. Same stuff happened during my ride along except my friend is way too nice and gave warnings to all the speeders. We got a domestic disturbance call which a jealous ex (female) beat on her ex-husband then was telling her sob story to me while my buddy was questioning the dude. Got some weird stuff too around his area like some middle easterners play baseball at like 2-3 AM in a parking lot frequently. It's a pretty fun and interesting job, but lots of paperwork involved.
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