The Elements of DWI

• Author: Deandra M. Grant/Kimberly Griffin Tucker
• Pages: 807-824

THE ELEMENTS

OF DWI

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CHAPTER 13

THE ELEMENTS OF DWI

I. INTRODUCTION

§13:01 DWIs Are Highly Litigated and Fact-Dependent

§13:02 The DWI Statute

§13:03 Culpable Mental State Not Required

§13:04 Involuntary Intoxication Is Not a Defense to DWI

§13:05 Voluntary Act Defense?

§13:06 Checklist for Involuntary Act Defense

II. OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE

§13:20 Operating Def‌ined

§13:21 No Proof of Movement Is Needed

§13:22 When No One Has Observed Your Client Driving

§13:23 Circumstantial Evidence Can Prove Time and Fact of Operation

§13:24 When the Client Confesses to Driving

§13:25 The Defense of Necessity to Operate

III. MOTOR VEHICLE AND WATERCRAFT DEFINED

§13:30 Motor Vehicle Def‌ined

§13:31 Watercraft Def‌ined

IV. IN A PUBLIC PLACE

§13:40 Public Place Def‌ined

§13:41 Areas Determined to Be Public

§13:42 Areas Determined Not to Be Public

V. WHILE INTOXICATED

§13:50 Intoxication Def‌ined

§13:51 Entitlement to Use Is Not a Defense

§13:52 Loss of Normal Faculties—Whose Normal?

§13:53 When the Intoxicant Is Alcohol

§13:54 When the Intoxicant Is Not Alcohol

§13:55 Challenging the Qualif‌ications of the State’s Expert

§13:56 Per se at 0.08 or Greater at Time of Driving

§13:57 0.15: Element or Enchancement?

§13:58 Prior DWI Conviction: Element or Enhancement?

§13:59 Use of Circumstantial Evidence to Establish Temporal Link

§13:60 Use of Retrograde Extrapolation to Establish Temporal Link

THE ELEMENTS

OF DWI

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