Chicago DUI Lawyers Reveal Double Standard When DA Arrested For DUI

Our Chicago DUI Lawyers found this interesting story about Randy Saavedra, the director of the administrative office of New Mexico’s district attorneys association. It appears that Mr. Saavedra, who by the way, has received dozens of traffic citations in the last 20 years, and had been cited 36 times since 1989 but has never paid a fine or received a jail sentence, was stopped for suspicion of DUI.

Saaverda was given a Breathalyzer exam that reveled his BAC to be .08 – legally intoxicated – until someone decided that the machine must be broke. When given a second Breathalyzer exam, Saaverda’s BAC was only .07. Our Chicago DUI Attorneys have NEVER heard of anyone getting a second crack at a failed Breathalyzer exam. We guess it pays to be friends with the DA’s office. Full story follows below.

In an ironic twist, top staffer for state DAs arrested for DWI…

By Heath Haussamen

The top staffer for the state’s district attorneys was arrested last weekend on suspicion of drunken driving, The Albuquerque Journal is reporting.

Randy Saavedra, director of the administrative office of the state’s district attorneys association, was stopped at a DWI checkpoint near Bernalillo over the weekend and arrested, but he says he wasn’t intoxicated and will fight the charges.

“I am very upset about this,” the Journal quoted him as saying.

Saavedra, the newspaper reported, has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving before, in 2001, but the charge was dismissed by the district attorney in Bernalillo County. That was before Saavedra became head of the state-funded office in 2006.

He was appointed to the job by a board made up of the state’s district attorneys.

Saavedra has also received dozens of traffic citations in the last 20 years, according to the Journal. As of the 2001 arrest, the Journal reported, Saavedra had been cited 36 times since 1989 and had never paid a fine or received a jail sentence.

Saavedra is the son of state Rep. Henry “Kiki” Saavedra, D-Albuquerque.

At the time of his Saturday arrest, Randy Saavedra had bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech and a “strong odor” of alcohol, the criminal complaint states. It also says that sobriety tests showed “several signs of impairment.” But the report doesn’t include a blood-alcohol level, according to the Journal.

Saavedra was quoted by the Journal as saying he had been drinking some champagne and his blood-alcohol level tested at 0.08 percent — which is the legal level of intoxication — but was tested again because the breathalyzer wasn’t working and came back at 0.07 percent, just below the legal level.

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