Sober drivers arrested for DUI often have one thing in common: Medical problems

(InvestigateTV) — David Dutton is used to the jokes around the pool hall about what he does and doesn’t drink.

The 75-year-old Rutherford County man said tea is his usual pick, even while being surrounded by people drinking alcohol.

“They kid me about being drunk, and they all know that I don’t drink,” Dutton said.

So, when he was pulled over on August 18, 2023, after driving with a headlight out and drifting on the shoulder, body camera footage showed him telling deputies that he wasn’t drunk or on drugs.

However, Dutton would be arrested, booked and jailed on suspicion of DUI.

Investigative reporter Jeremy Finley takes an in-depth look at this arrest and other similar cases, as well as the training legal experts say some of law enforcement lack.

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