Idaho Sen. Crapo’s DUI report provides new details on 2012 arrest [View all]
WASHINGTON -- Nearly four years after Sen. Mike Crapo’s conviction for drunken-driving, the Idaho Republican got a chance to see the police report in his case on Thursday.
Police officials and the city attorney in Alexandria had kept the report under wraps since Crapo’s arrest, citing a Virginia state law that allows prosecutors to withhold police records, even from defendants.
But after the city denied a request by the Idaho Statesman and McClatchy to gain access to the report under the Freedom of Information Act, Crapo intervened, asking the prosecutor who handled the case to release the report to him.
He then shared it with McClatchy.
It didn’t paint a pretty picture of Crapo, describing how he struggled to walk and hold his head still as a police officer conducted sobriety tests on Dec. 23, 2012, in Alexandria, Va.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article111062872.html
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