Chicago DUI lawyer provides update on Alderman Sharon Dixon's Chicago DUI case

Wow! The cliffhanger has ended with a win for Alderman Sharon Dixon.  You may recall, I posted about the peculiar hearing she had regarding her right to keep her driver's license from being suspended based on her arrest for a Chicago DUI.  Ultimately, the Alderman did testify, as permitted by law, after she initially declined based on the advice of her attorney.

May 22, Chicago, Il

Ald. Sharon Dixon (24th) was back behind the wheel Thursday evening after a judge ruled her license was improperly suspended when she was arrested for drunken driving in January.

Dixon allegedly smelled of alcohol and failed sobriety tests after arguing for half an hour with four Chicago police officers on the Far North Side. Her license was suspended when she refused to take a Breathalyzer test.

But at the end of a four-hour hearing at the Daley Center on Thursday, Judge Eileen O'Neill Burke said one officer's claim that Dixon appeared drunk was undermined by his own testimony that he told her to drive home moments before arresting her.

Three other officers told Dixon either to move her car or go home before the arrest, evidence showed.

It "wasn't reasonable" to believe that "four seasoned officers" would have used "their full authority to order her to drive her car" if they believed she was drunk, Burke said.

I think Judge Burke said it all.