Senator Paul Campbell Arrested for DUI, Providing False Information (Full Video)

In footage that can only be found on Real World Police, this video presents the shenanigans allegedly attempted by South Carolina Senator Paul Campbell and his wife after they rear-ended another vehicle on November 4, 2017 while driving on I-26 West near mile marker 204.

Senator Campbell was arrested on suspicion of DUI and providing false information to law enforcement. His wife received a citation for providing false information to law enforcement. Remarkably, Campbell was successful at having all charges dropped.

A quick review of how that happened: Prosecutors nixed the false information charge almost immediately, as the cited statute only criminalizes providing false *identification* to law enforcement — and not the providing false information generally.

The ball got rolling on total case dismissal when Judge Elbert O. Duffie III ruled that Campbell's breathalyzer test was inadmissible on the grounds that the arresting officer did not provide "affirmative assistance" to Campbell - as required by state law - when the senator asked for a blood test to be taken. (Campbell can be heard clearly asking for a blood test in the preview portion of this video.)

Judge Duffie wrote that the failure to make arrangements for Campbell to undergo a blood test was a violation of state law, and held that the breath test results were consequently inadmissible as evidence. Duffie's ruling was a major win for Campbell, but the judge stopped short of dismissing the case.

One day before Campbell's trial was to begin Duffie reevaluated his decision and threw the entire case out, ruling that without any hard evidence of Campbell's intoxication there was no reasonable way that a conviction could be achieved, and that by not providing Campbell with the opportunity for a blood test the prosecution had irreparably deprived Campbell of potentially exculpatory evidence.

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