{"id":24550,"date":"2014-08-09T01:27:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/maine-dui-seminar-defense-training\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:34:46","slug":"maine-dui-seminar-defense-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/maine-dui-seminar-defense-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine DUI Seminar \u2013 Defense training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dui_seminar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dui_seminar-300x225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is putting on a seminar to train lawyers to defend DUI cases.\u00a0 It will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, Maine, on August 22, 2014.\u00a0 (In Maine that is OUI \u2013 Operating Under the Influence.)\u00a0 I have the honor to be one of the instructors.\u00a0 I am teaching Field Sobriety Testing.\u00a0 Other speakers are Jan Semenoff, Matt Nichols, John Webb and Ed Folsom.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Semenoff is coming from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.\u00a0 He was a police officer for the City of Saskatoon Police Department where he was specially trained in breath testing.\u00a0 During his service with the SPD, and after retiring from that department, he was a factory trained breath test technician on many models of breath testing device.\u00a0 He has published papers on breath testing and other subjects related to alcohol the science of alcohol measurement.\u00a0 He is recognized as one of North America\u2019s leading experts on the subject of breath testing.\u00a0 On a personal note,\u00a0 Jan trained me on the Intoxilyzer 8000, the machine used by police in Maine.\u00a0 Jan will spend two hours training Maine lawyers about the 8000.<\/p>\n<p>I went to law school with Matt Nichols.\u00a0 That was a long time ago.\u00a0 Matt is one of the <a class=\"broken_link\" title=\"Maine Attorney Matt Nichols\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/southern-maine-oui-dui-attorneys-near-me-under-influence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very top OUI trial lawyers in Maine<\/a>.\u00a0 He is perhaps the most innovative OUI defense lawyer I know.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, Matt will teach Creative OUI Defenses.\u00a0 His approaches to exposing the attempts of the Intoxilyzer 8000 manufacturers to hide information about the machine make for some of the best and most entertaining cross-examination.\u00a0 After the witness says \u201ci don\u2019t know\u201d for the fifteenth or twentieth time, jurors start to catch on that the machine may not be as good as the State of Maine and the manufacturer claim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/maine-dui-seminar-defense-training\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Maine DUI Seminar \u2013 Defense training\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is putting on a seminar to train lawyers to defend DUI cases.\u00a0 It will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, Maine, on August 22, 2014.\u00a0 (In Maine that is OUI \u2013 Operating Under the Influence.)\u00a0 I have the honor to be one of the instructors.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-defense"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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