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Its time to cool the rhetoric now,” Del. Cranwell said.
He fought off four attempts by the bill’s opponents to amend the measure on the House floor.
Dd. Clinton Miller (R-Woodstock), also a lawyer, proposed to amend the per se law, first enacted in 1984, to lower the blood alcohol level to .05, which Del. Cranw.ell dismissed as a political maneuver to gut the intent of the bill.
“I know a shad treatment when I see it,” Del. Cranwell said.
Ihe next attempt to amend the hill jivas made bv Del.'V'/Thpinas Forehand Jr, (D-Chesapeake), a lawyer who tWikd to eliminate the per se concept from state law entirely. He claims it is unfair and possibly unconstitutional because it deprives defendents of the opportunity to present evidence on their own behalf in court.
“We should not take away our judges’ only tool for being just and fair in dealing with drunk drivers . . . ,” Del. Forehand said.
He claimed the law is “politically driven,” and Del. Cranwell didn’t deny it, responding that politics are the tool of popular representation.
House Majority Leader Thomas W. Moss Jr. (D-Norfolk), a lawyer who fought the bill in committee, joined Del. Forehand in opposing the per se concept.
“Either go back to a system of justice that goes back to trying cases on an individual basis or kill the bill,” he said.
After the House killed Del. Forehand’s amendment, Del. William P. Robinson (D-Norfolk), another lawyer, tried to amend the bill to ensure that the police officer who makes the arrest doesn’t administer the test, or the results couldn’t be used as evi
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