Month: June 2026

In a DWI case built on a breath test, the number is the State's key evidence, but it isn't self-proving. Arkansas lets the result in only if the test followed Department of Health rules: an approved instrument with a current certificate, a certified operator, and at...

Sobriety checkpoints are legal in Arkansas, but only when they're run under a plan set in advance by someone above the officers in the field, with neutral rules that keep those officers from deciding for themselves whom to stop or how. The State has to prove that plan...