Authors: Dale A. Hayes Jr. and James Nesci
ISBN 10: 1-936360-18-5
ISBN 13: 978-1-936360-18-7
Copyright Date Ed: October 1, 2024
Pages: 688
Binding Information: Casebound with DVD
Size: 8.5 x 11 Inches (US)

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Book Topics Include:

Chapter 1: Lawyer Advertising
Chapter 2: Basic Client Relations
Chapter 3: Collateral Consequences
Chapter 4: Driver’s License Actions Nevada Department of Revenue Motor Vehicle Division
Chapter 5: Driving, Boating, & Flying Under the Influence
Chapter 6: Pre-Trial Investigations
Chapter 7: Pre-Trial Motions Practice
Chapter 8: Jury Selection, Trial, Sentencing, and Plea Deals
Chapter 9: Police DUI Investigations: Driving, Boating, and Field Sobriety Testing
Chapter 10: Drug Evaluation Classification Protocols
Chapter 11: Breath Testing for Alcohol
Chapter 12: Blood & Urine Testing for Alcohol & Drugs
Chapter 13: Blood Alcohol Calculations for Attorneys
Chapter 14: DUI Jury Trial Warpack

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· Marijuana-Impaired Driving, A Report to Congress

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· Drivers

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· BACs, 2000

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· Survey of DWI Courts

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· Traffic Safety Facts for Motorcycles 2004

· Use of Warrants for Breath Test Refusal

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· DWI

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Table of Contents
Dedication
How to Use This Book
Contents
Table of Cases
Preface

Chapter 1: Lawyer Advertising
Co-Authored by James O. Ruane, Esq.
1.1 Ethical Issues in Advertising

NV ST RPC Rule 7.1 Communications concerning a lawyer’s services

NV ST RPC Rule 7.2 Advertising

NV ST RPC Rule 7.2A Advertising filing requirements

NV ST RPC Rule 7.2B Volunteer advisory committees; pre-dissemination review

NV ST RPC Rule 7.3 Communications with prospective clients

NV ST RPC Rule 7.4 Communication of fields of practice and specialization

NV ST RPC Rule 7.4A State Bar approval of organizations that certify lawyers as specialists

NV ST RPC Rule 7.5 Firm names and letterheads

NV ST RPC Rule 7.5A Registration of multijurisdictional law firms

1.2 Advertising Resources

A. Internet Advertising

B. Phone Book Advertising

C. Giveaways

D. Television and Radio

E. Print Advertising

1.3 Marketing Advice

A. Tiftickjian’s Ten Marketing Tips to Build a Better Practice and Life

1.4 Social Media

A. Ethical Concerns

B. Confidentiality vs. Privilege

C. The 3 Tenets of Social Media: Timeliness, Honesty, and Transparency

D. Facebook

E. Twitter

F. Social Media as a Research Tool

G. Final Thoughts on Social Media

Chapter 2: Basic Client Relations
2.1 Meeting the Prospective Client
2.2 Client Intake Questions
2.3 Client Intake Interview
2.4 Fee Agreements
2.5 Fees
2.6 Trust Accounts
2.7 Communication
2.8 Client File Retention

Chapter 3: Collateral Consequences
3.1 Canadian Travel

3.2 Military Personnel

A. Overview and Applicable Law

B. Jurisdiction

C. On Base/Military

D. Non-Judicial Punishment

E. Federal Prosecution

F. Double Jeopardy

G. Court Martial

H. Off-Base/Civilian and Military Punishments

I. Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

J. Summary

3.3 Pilots

3.4 Merchant Mariners

3.5 Immigration and Deportation

A. The Attorney’s Obligation

B. Federal Law

C. Crimes of Moral Turpitude

3.6 Licensed Practitioners of Medicine & Other Healthcare Workers

3.7 Concealed Carrying Weapons Permit

3.8 Miscellaneous Intoxication, Impairment and Alcohol Laws

Appendix 3.1 Overcoming Criminal Inadmissibility to Canada
Chapter 4: Driver's License Actions: Motor Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division
4.1 Overview

4.2 The Implied Consent Law

4.3 Order of Revocation: Notice

4.4 Administrative per se Revocation N.R.S. § 484C.210

4.5 Administrative Revocation Statutes (per se and refusals) N.R.S. § 484C.210 - N.R.S. § 484C.230

4.6 Administrative Revocation (Refusals) N.R.S. § 484C.210

4.7 Refusals – Expanded Law - 4.7(a) – 4.7(f)

4.8 Right to Attorney Prior to Taking Chemical Test

4.9 Administrative (DMV) Hearing

4.10 Time Computations

4.11 License Revocations (Mail), Surrender of License and Reinstatement

4.12 Reinstatement – SR-22 Insurance & Breath Ignition Interlock Devices

4.13 Underage DUI – Minors (18 to 20 years old)

4.14 Underage DUI – Juveniles (under 18 years of age)

4.15 Revocation for Out-Of-State Violations

4.16 Nevada DUI and of Out-of-State Licenses

4.17 Reporting Serious Driving Infractions/Crimes—Driver License Compact

4.18 Rehearing of DMV Hearings

4.19 Appeals from the DMV

4.20 Nevada DMV Demerit Point System

4.21 Commercial Driver License Disqualification

4.22 Commercial Driver License Notification Requirements

4.23 Breath Ignition Interlock Devices & The “Y” License Restriction

4.24 Mandatory Revocation of Driver Licenses
Appendix 4.1: Nevada Administrative Hearings
Chapter 5: Driving, Boating, & Flying Under the Influence
5.1 The Elements of Nevada DUI

5.2 Aggravated & Elevated BAC DUI

5.3 Prior Offenses in Misdemeanor Cases

5.4 Breath Ignition Interlock Devices

5.5 DUI Resulting in Death & DUI Homicide

5.6 Reckless Driving

5.7 Underage DUI

5.8 Impoundment of Vehicles

5.9 Sentencing: Statutory Scheme

5.10 Special DUI, BUI and FUI Penalty Assessments

5.11 Probation and House Arrest

5.12 Costs of Incarceration

5.13 Restitution

5.14 Misdemeanor Boating Under the Influence (BUI): Overview

5.15 Misdemeanor BUI

5.16 Aggravated BUI

5.17 Underage (Juvenile & Minor) BUI

5.18 Flying Under the Influence (FUI)

5.19 Nevada FUI Laws

5.20 Federal Court Jurisdiction

Appendix 5.1 Under the Influence Mandatory Sentencing Chart
Chapter 6: Pre-Trial Investigations
6.1 Overview

6.2 Proper Filing Techniques

6.3 Visiting the Scene

6.4 Photography and Videos

6.5 Diagrams and Aerial Photography

6.6 Accident Reconstruction

6.7 Event Data Recorders (Black Boxes)

6.8 Speed, Time and Distance Calculations

6.9 Roadblock (a.k.a. “DUI Checkpoint”) Investigations

6.10 Pre-Trial Interviews
Appendix 6.1 An attorney’s guide to accident investigation
Chapter 7: Pre-Trial Motions Practice
7.1 Overview

7.2 Pretrial Procedure & Disclosures

Notice of Appearance & Confirmation of Counsel

Invocation of Right to Speedy Trial

Notice of Defenses

Pretrial Disclosures

7.3 Pretrial Motions

Motion for Own Recognizance Release

Motion to Reduce Bail and/or Modify Non-Monetary Release Terms

a. Bail

b. Non-monetary Release Terms

Motion to Continue Trial

Opposing the Prosecution's Motion for Continuance (Hill & Bustos)

Motion for Discovery

Motion to Withdraw as Counsel

7.4 Substantive Motions

Challenge to Grand Jury Proceedings

Reasonable suspicion

Probable cause

Motion to Suppress (Anonymous Caller)

Motion to Dismiss (Double Jeopardy)

Motion to Suppress Statements Taken in Violation of Miranda Rights

Motion to Suppress Involuntarily Made Statements

Violation of the Right to an Independent Test (does the defense have an argument?)

Motion to Suppress for Lack of Consent

Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea

7.5 Motions in Limine

Improper Testimony or Argument (Societal Risks Associated with DUI)

Improper Correlation of Field Sobriety Testing and BAC

Improper Comparison of Number of DUI Investigations to Number of Arrests

Instruction on Proper Burden of Proof (Keeping Open Mind)

Limiting the Scope of Rebuttal to its Proper Purpose

Mimicking FST Performance is Inadmissible

Improper Use of Field Sobriety Testing

Preclusion of Officer’s Improper Opinion of Impairment

Reasonable Doubt Pre-Instruction

Suppression of Evidence for Non-Disclosure of Evidence (NRS § 174.295/Brady)

Tolerance to the Effects of Alcohol or Drugs (Speculation: Expert and Lay Witnesses)

Preclusion of Irrelevant Evidence (Age of the Accused)

Preclusion of Irrelevant Evidence (Birth Control Medication)

Preclusion of Irrelevant and/or Speculative Evidence (“One-to-Ten-Scale”)

Invasion of the Province of the Jury

Improper Correlation of HGN in the Absence of a Chemical Test

Improper Comment on Post-Arrest Silence

Preclusion of Unreliable Evidence (Vertical Gaze Nystagmus)

Preclusion of Inadmissible Hearsay

Preclusion of Reference to Officer as “Expert”

Suppression of Preliminary Breath Test

No Burden Shifting (Independent Test)

No Burden Shifting (Referee Testing)

Improper Claim of “Expert Status” (DRE)

Improper Comment on Invocation of Right to Counsel

Improper Impeachment of a Witness

Improper Comment on Passenger’s Status

Prosecutor May Not Ask Witnesses to Speculate

Improper Comment on Alleged Prior DUI

Notice to Prosecution

7.6 Evidentiary Hearings
Chapter 8: Jury Selection, Trial Sentencing and Plea Deals
8.1 Overview: Jury Trials

8.2 Jury Selection

A. The Jury Insight Project

B. Voir Dire

C. Jury Instructions

8.3 Opening Statements

8.4 Confronting the Prosecution’s Case

A. Overview

B. Cross-Examination: Police Officers

C. Cross-Examination: Victims

D. Cross-Examination: State’s Expert Witness

8.5 Presenting The Defense Case

A. Direct Examination of the accused

B. Direct Examination of the Passenger(s)

C. Choosing the Defense Expert Witness

D. Preparing the Defense Expert

E. Direct Examination of the Defense Expert Witness

F. Notice Requirements and Disclosure

E. Presenting the State’s Expert as a Defense Witness

8.6 Closing Argument

A. Words and Inferences

B. Reasonable Doubt

C. Power Point Closing Argument

D. Surrebuttal Argument

8.7 Sentencing

A. The Four Reasons for Sentencing

B. Mitigation

C. House Arrest

D. Letters to the judge

E. Prior Offenses

F. Pre-Sentence Investigation Report (PSI)

8.8 Plea Offers

A. Overview

B. Duty to Communicate Plea Offer

C. Waiver of Rights at a Plea Hearing

D. Exposure of Prior Offenses Advisement

E. Out of State (Prior), Timing of Offenses, and Juvenile (Prior) Offenses Advisement

F. Misdemeanor Plea Offers

G. Felony Plea Offers

H. Statutory Options with DUI Plea Negotiations

Appendix 8.1 DUI Offender Screening and Treatment
Chapter 9: Police DUI Investigations: Driving, Boating, and Field Sobriety Testing
9.1 Introduction

9.2 Driving Behavior

9.3 Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST)—Six Validation Studies

9.4 Standardized Field Sobriety Test Battery

9.5 Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN)

9.6 Walk and Turn

9.7 One-Leg-Stand

9.8 Commonly Used Non-Standardized/Non-Validated Field Sobriety Tests

9.9 Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE)

9.10 Field Sobriety Testing in the Marine Environment

9.11Video Recording the Driving and Investigation

Appendix 9.1 The Aging Process and Field Sobriety Tests

Appendix 9.2 DWI: Modern Day Salem Witch Hunts

Appendix 9.3 Fear and the DWI Field Sobriety Tests

Appendix 9.4 The Fallacy of the Police Administered ‘Finger to Nose’ Test to Determine Alcoholic Sobriety
Chapter 10: Drug Evaluation Classification
10.1 Overview

10.2 DRE Nationwide Law Comparison

10.3 DRE Admissibility Case Law

10.4 The 12-Step DRE Protocol

10.5 Deconstruction and Analysis of the 12-Step DRE Protocol

10.6 Effects of Various Drugs

10.7 Drug Evaluation Classification Protocol (DECP) Training Program

10.8 Nevada Drugged Driving Statutes

Chapter 11: Chemical Testing
11.1 Henry’s Law and the Blood-to-Breath Ratio

11.2 Federal Register

11.3 Preliminary Breath Testing

A. Overview

B. Statutory Law on Preliminary Breath Testing

C. PBT Safeguards

D. Common Portable Breath Testing Devices

11.4 Evidential Breath Testing

11.5 Infrared Light Absorption

11.6 Basic Operation

11.7 Intoxilyzer® Test Sequence

11.8 Breath Testing: Methods of Attack

A. Device-based Attacks

B. Operator-based Attacks

C. Subject-based Attacks

11.9 Calibration Checks: Wet-Bath and Dry-Gas

A. Federal Register

B. Wet-Bath Simulators

C. Dry-Gas Standards

11.10 Nevada Administrative Code, Chapter 484C

11.11 Statutory Requirements for Admissibility of Breath Test Results

Chapter 12: Blood and Urine testing for Alcohol and Drugs
and Admissibility
12.1 Phlebotomy: From the Vein to the Lab

A. Overview

B. Blood Draws

C. The blood kit

D. Blood tube recall notices

E. Storage of the unused blood kit

F. Health issues and allergies

G. Proper site selection

H. Subject positioning

I. Site cleansing

J. The blood draw

K. Tube inversion

L. Chain of custody and proper handling of the specimens

M. Preparation of the blood sample for alcohol analysis

12.2 Headspace Gas Chromatography—Blood Alcohol Analysis

A. Chromatography is a separation science

B. The GC Column

C. Separation of volatile substances, retention times and column maintenance

D. Flame Ionization Detector

E. The computer program calculates BAC

F. Co-Elution and Mixed Standards

G. Fronting and Tailing—Asymmetry Factors

H. Contamination: The Dirty Little Secret

I. Gas Flow Issues

J. Software Issues

12.3 Hospital Blood Analysis for Alcohol

12.4 Uncertainty of Measurement

A. Metrology Simplified

12.5 Blood Testing for Drugs: Common Issues and Procedures

A. Analyst Qualifications and Permitting

B. The Two-Step Testing Process

C. Chain of Custody

D. ELISA—Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

12.6 Blood Testing for Drugs other than THC: LCMS

A. LCMS: How it works

B. Electron Multiplier/Detector

C. LCMS Chromatography

12.7 Blood and Urine: Handling and Preparation for THC Testing

A. Blood vs. Urine

B. The First Step: Sample Collection (Blood and Urine)

C. The Urine Collection Kit

D. Proper handling of the urine specimen

E. Transportation and Storage

F. Chain of Custody

G. Urine Sample Preparation: Extraction & Derivatization

H. Urinalysis

12.8 GCMS Analysis for THC in Urine and Blood

A. Preparation of the Sample

B. Internal Standard

C. Trimethylsyliliation

D. Mass-Spectrometry

E. How to Read the Internal Standard Data

F. How to Read the Target Ion Data

G. Total Ion Count vs. Selective Ion Monitoring

12.9 Blood Draws: Statutory Admissibility, Sample Preservation and Independent Testing

12.10 Secondary Blood Testing

Chapter 13: Blood Alcohol Calculations for Attorneys
13.1 Overview: Blood Alcohol Calculations for Attorneys

13.2 Determining the One-Drink Potential

13.3 Elimination and Retrograde Extrapolation

13.4 White’s Retrograde Extrapolation

13.5 Partition Ratio Conversions

13.6 Serum and Plasma Conversions

13.7 Unit of Measure Conversions

13.8 Temperature Conversions
Chapter 14: DUI Jury Trial Warpack
14.2 Aggravated DUI and Elevated BACs

14.3 Appeals and Special Actions: Standards of Review

14.4 Arrest

14.5 Blood Draws

14.6 Breath Testing

14.7 Chain of Custody

14.8 Closing Arguments—Ethical Considerations

14.9 Comment on Defendant’s Silence

14.10 Confrontation

14.11 Corpus Delicti

14.12 Continuances: Trial (Bustos and Hill)

14.13 Credibility of Witnesses

14.14 Discovery

14.15 Double Jeopardy

14.16 Driving with a Drug or Metabolite

14.17 DRE: Drug Recognition Evaluation Admissibility

14.18 Evidence: Destruction, Failure to Preserve & Remedies

14.19 Expert Witnesses

14.20 Foundation for Admission of Scientific Evidence

14.21 Immigration

14.22 Implied Consent

14.23 Jurors and Jury Selection

14.24 Jury Trial Right

14.25 Motions

14.26 Miranda

14.27 Necessity Defense

14.28 Pleas and Plea Agreements

14.29 Preemption

14.30 Prior Convictions

14.31 Prior Testimony

14.32 Probable Cause

14.33 Probation

14.34 Reasonable Suspicion

14.35 Refusal to Submit to Chemical Testing

14.36 Relation Back/Retrograde Extrapolation

14.37 Replicate Testing

14.38 Restitution

14.39 Right to Counsel (Criminal and DMV Proceedings)

14.40 Roadblocks (a.k.a. “DUI Checkpoints”)

14.41 Speedy Trial Right

14.42 Searches

14.43 Sentencing: Credit Against Sentence

14.44 Video Recording

14.45 Voir dire

14.46 Voluntariness of Statements

14.47 Warrants

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About the Author
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