Prosecuting/Investigating the Drugged Driver Webinar Series

We have a new webinar series coming up focusing on DUI-drugs. This will go over the DRE matrix and the seven drug categories. We have submitted this for CLE credit from WSBA. You’ll need to register for each session separately. If you cannot attend at the live webinar timing, register for the course; after it has aired, you will receive a link to watch it at your convenience.

Series: Prosecuting/Investigating the Drugged Driver: 10 Week Webinar Series (November- January)- 2 hours/week: Total of 10 Weeks

Course Description & Registration Links for the Entire 10 week Course:

Best Practices and Tips for Prosecuting a DUI-D case- How to Prepare, Trial Tips (2 hours): This course is designed to increase competency in prosecuting/investigating DUI-D cases. What is a drug, What is the matrix, best evidence in a drugged driving case, history of the DRE program, how to become a DRE, DRE validation studies (3 legged stool); type of Drugged Driving DUIs & how each is unique (Rx, Cannabis, Illegal, Poly).

Please register for WA: Best Practices and Tips for Prosecuting/Investigating a DUI-Drugs Case on Nov 6, 2020 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7496722476317382413

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Intro to DRE Matrix & Using Your DRE/DRE Matrix in Trial (2 hours): This course is designed to walk a prosecutor through a DUI-drugs report, evaluate evidence in the report, introduce the prosecutor to the DRE Matrix, and prepare this case for trial, using the DRE matrix. In addition to covering standards for filing and trial, this course will discuss necessary pretrial investigative steps that should be taken before trying a DUI-drugs case. This course will also familiarize prosecutors with other tests that might be used to evaluate an impaired driver, and things to look for to prove your case. This course will also cover admitting the DRE matrix as an exhibit in trial; what objections to anticipate, and how to overcome them.

Handout: Prosecuting a Drugged Driver.

Please register for WA: Intro to DRE Matrix & Using Your DRE/DRE Matrix in Trial  on Nov 20, 2020 2:00 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6653988595069191181

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Drug Categories (CNS Depressants, CNS Stimulants, Hallucinogens, Inhalants, Dissociative Anesthetic, Cannabis, Narcotic Analgesics) & Impairment, Poly-Drug Case Review and Evaluation: (16 hours)– These eight courses in two hour increments will review the entire 7 drug categories and then common signs of poly-drug and what to expect. These courses will introduce a prosecutor to the 7 drug categories and the common observable signs and effects of those drugs. These courses are designed to increase prosecutor competency in using their expert witnesses in DUI cases. In a typical blood DUI case, a WSP forensic analyst will be the State’s expert witness. This will walk the prosecutors through how to use their expert in the best way possible in trial. This will familiarize prosecutors with how alcohol and marijuana effects the human body and how this might be presented in trial. This will also cover how the testing is conducted and how to explain this to your jury. By the end of this training, the prosecutors present will have a better and broader understanding of how to introduce this evidence in trial and how to understand this evidence in reviewing their cases for charging and in preparation for trial.

The presenter will talk at length about effects, duration, ingestion, etc. This course will focus on the most commonly detected drugs by our WSP toxicology lab. This course will familiarize prosecutors with common signs, symptoms, and observable effects of these drugs. This course is designed to increase a prosecutor’s competency in understanding the evidence in a DUI-drugs case, and the weight to give it when evaluating a case. A prosecutor must know and understand common signs and effects or else there will be no basis on which to evaluate his/her cases. Each course will focus on the named drug category; so, for example, the CNS Depressants training will be two hours all about CNS Depressants.

Please register for WA: CNS Depressants  on Dec 4, 2020 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3737908935858624781

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: CNS Stimulants  on Dec 11, 2020 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5789396422660824077

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Hallucinogens on Dec 18, 2020 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3084052460564570893

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Dissociative Anesthetics  on Dec 29, 2020 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2601689012877926669

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Narcotic Analgesics  on Jan 8, 2021 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2399817578506730765

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Inhalants on Jan 15, 2021 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7852021962252694285

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Cannabis (and Synthetic Cannabinoids)  on Jan 22, 2021 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/71326828784269069

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please register for WA: Poly-Drug Case Review and Evaluation on Jan 29, 2021 12:30 PM PST at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4261320451145693197

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

These webinars are being conducted by the Washington TSRP Program and the National TSRP Program utilizing the National TSRP Program webinar account. The account is funded through the NAPC/NHTSA Cooperative Agreement Project Number 693JJ92050011 (webinars conducted/recorded after October 1, 2020).