Houston DWI Police Officer Under Investigation - DWI Cases Now in Question
A Houston DWI police officer has been under investigation for months for the mishandling of an intoxication manslaughter investigation. As first reported by Dane Johnson in his February 6, 2009 blog, Officer M.E. Wick has been the subject of an ongoing investigation into possible criminal activity for several months. Despite this ongoing investigation, the Harris County District Attorney's office seems to still want to keep the investiagtion as quiet as possible. Wick participated in all aspects of DWI / DUI / Drunk Driving investigations and was the breath test operator for many breathalyzer tests.
The investigation into Wick's misconduct stems from a fatality crash. Wick conducted the accident investigation and wrongly charged the passenger of a vehicle with intoxication manslaughter. The problem - a passenger can not legally be charged and convicted of intoxication manslaughter because one of the elements in an intoxication manslaughter charge is that the person charged must be "operating" the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Despite a duty to give us this information, the Harris County District Attorney's office has yet to notify me of any of this. Instead, we have had to investigate this unfortunate situation ourselves. Due to our extensive investigation, we have had 3 Houston DWI cases dismissed so far regarding this officer.
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