{"id":221,"date":"2013-12-12T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2013\/12\/appeals-court-upholds-oui-conv.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T05:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:03:59","slug":"appeals-court-upholds-oui-conv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/appeals-court-upholds-oui-conv\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court upholds Massachusetts OUI conviction despite improper police testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building on the state high court&#8217;s recent decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-limits-opini\/\">Commonwealth v. Canty<\/a>, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals held a booking officer&#8217;s testimony in an OUI trial inadmissible to the extent that the officer stated his opinion about a defendant&#8217;s inability to safely operate a vehicle. This decision affirms the restrictions on police testimony in OUI trials, while also reminding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\">Massachusetts OUI attorneys<\/a> of their duty to take proper procedural measures to raise objections and claims on behalf of their clients. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the matter of Commonwealth v. Saulnier, No. 12-P-931 (Mass. App. Dec. 6, 2013), the Appeals Court heard the case of a driver who was arrested on OUI charges after totaling a vehicle that was travelling in another lane. One of the witnesses to the accident was the owner and a passenger in the vehicle totaled by the defendant. The witness allegedly saw Saulnier pull out of a liquor store and travel diagonally across traffic lanes colliding into her own vehicle. The officer responding to the scene subsequently arrested Saulnier after detecting evidence of alcohol intoxication. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/appeals-court-upholds-oui-conv\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Appeals Court upholds Massachusetts OUI conviction despite improper police testimony\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on the state high court&#8217;s recent decision in Commonwealth v. Canty, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals held a booking officer&#8217;s testimony in an OUI trial inadmissible to the extent that the officer stated his opinion about a defendant&#8217;s inability to safely operate a vehicle. This decision affirms the restrictions on police testimony in OUI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-offense-oui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appeals Court upholds Massachusetts OUI conviction despite improper police testimony &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; December 12, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Building on the state high court&#039;s recent decision in Commonwealth v. 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