{"id":4017,"date":"2014-12-01T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:15:06","slug":"impaired-driving-charges-police-wrestle-with-exacting-steps-quarter-of-all-cases-in-northeastern-ontario-last-year-were-dismissed-acquitted-stayed-or-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/impaired-driving-charges-police-wrestle-with-exacting-steps-quarter-of-all-cases-in-northeastern-ontario-last-year-were-dismissed-acquitted-stayed-or-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Impaired driving charges: police wrestle with &#8216;exacting steps&#8217; &#8211; Quarter of all cases in northeastern Ontario last year were dismissed, acquitted, stayed or withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News (SUDBURY, ONTARIO)<\/p>\n<p>A provincial police officer says proving impaired driving cases is increasingly difficult and time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are twelve specific steps we must prove before we can even lay a charge in impaired ... and each one must be proved perfectly,\u201d said OPP Inspector Mark Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, because of this, the court procedure has become more a test of process than an actual test of whether that person's impaired or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/impaired-driving-charges-police-wrestle-with-exacting-steps-1.2855937\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News (SUDBURY, ONTARIO) A provincial police officer says proving impaired driving cases is increasingly difficult and time-consuming. \u201cThere are twelve specific steps we must prove before we can even lay a charge in impaired &#8230; and each one must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-road-safety-news-digest","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}