A Routine Crash Turned Into an Overnight Jail Stay | Fresh Off The Press

Sober Guy Jailed Anyway – Body Cam Tells All

A breathalyzer reading of 0.00 is not a gray area, and passing every field sobriety test is not a matter of interpretation — yet a Kentucky man was arrested for DUI anyway, held overnight, and only cleared seven months later when prosecutors finally watched the body-camera footage themselves. Key Points Nathaniel Stephens of Grayson, Kentucky, registered a 0.00 breath-alcohol result and passed every field sobriety test after a minor collision, …

A Routine Crash Turned Into an Overnight Jail Stay | Fresh Off The Press

Probable cause is supposed to be a floor for government power, not a substitute for evidence—yet modern DUI enforcement too often treats subjective hunches as destiny even when objective tests say otherwise. The Short Version A Kentucky DUI arrest of Nathaniel Stephens despite a 0.00 breath test and apparently clean field tests spotlights a recurrent gap between suspicion and evidence. Prosecutors later dismissed the DUI after reviewing body-ca…