Police say they can tell if you are too high to drive

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Police say they can tell if you are too high to drive. Critics call it ‘utter nonsense’

Haley Butler-Moore sped up to pass a semi on the highway when she suddenly saw the police lights.

She’d left Albuquerque hours earlier, heading to a Halloween party in Denver. Tired from the long drive, she recalled being nervous as she pulled out her paperwork. The trooper asked Butler-Moore to come sit in the patrol car.

“Do you use any recreational drugs?” asked the officer, as captured on the body camera.

“No,” said Butler-Moore.

“OK, because your eyes are saying something completely different. So how much have you used today?”

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Attorney Michael Komorn

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‘Police science’

At the police station, the DRE officer, one of more than 8,000 scattered in departments across the country, asked Butler-Moore to recount everything she did that day.

“If there is no impairment, it will come out here,” the officer told her, the entire evaluation recorded on bodycam.

But the officer had concerns. Butler-Moore had put the wrong date, from the day before. That’s because, Butler-Moore said, she didn’t realize it was already after midnight.

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