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156 DUI Cases Linked to Illinois Officer Dropped
Posted: April 18th, 2008 10:48 AM EDT

ERIC HERMAN
Chicago Sun Times

The Cook County state's attorney's office has dropped more than 150 DUI cases in which indicted Chicago cop John Haleas was the arresting officer, officials said.

In all, 156 misdemeanor DUI cases have been dropped, said John Gorman, a spokesman for the state's attorney. In some of the cases, non-DUI charges against the defendants remain, he said.

Haleas, 37, faces felony charges of perjury, official misconduct and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying and falsifying reports about a DUI arrest in April 2005. According to a grand jury indictment, Haleas falsely reported he gave a defendant various field sobriety tests.

Haleas also has been sued in federal court by a man he arrested.

Haleas worked out of the Grand Central District. When questions about his arrests arose last year, the state's attorney's office dropped about 50 cases and said about 500 were being reviewed.

The Schaumburg-based Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists honored Haleas three times as the police officer with the most DUI arrests in Illinois. He has been stripped of his police powers and is scheduled to appear in court April 25.

I just read something about cases closer to home where the officers were using some kind of expired solution? And then I also heard something about cases being dropped the manufacture won’t release its software? Crazy stuff…

Yup, the "patented secrets" fight over the Intoxilizer 5000.

It's my understanding that Cass County (Walker) has discontinued using the intoxilyzer over the "source code" debate. Now every DWI is only offered blood/urine tests.