Read the DUI search order for Sabrina Cervantes Senator

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This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

California’s senator had a thick blurry speech, looked sleepy and was unstable on their feet when the officers interacted with her at a hospital in Sacramento after a car accident last month, according to a search order, which the judge authorized by police to perform a DUI blood test.

Senator Sabrina Cervantes will later show evidence of intoxicants, and prosecutors of Sacramento County refused to charge.

Cervantes is now threatening to sue the Sacramento police station, claiming that officers are directed to a Democrat representing Riverside because of her race and sexual orientation.

Her lawyer James Squadra said Calmatters search order received Late Monday by police in Sacramento, by requesting the Public Records Act in California, it only helps their case.

“There will be many witnesses who will contradict everything this officer put an oath there,” Quadra said today.

But on May 19, on the day of the crash, officer Kevin Lucas managed to persuade a deputy prosecutor and judge from the Sacramental Supreme Court in Sacramento that employees have a probable reason to believe that Cervantes, 37 -year

Cervantes was quoted according to the California Statute, which prohibits driving under the influence of “every medicine”. This includes a recipe or even over -the -counter medicines.

The document, which includes Lucas’s swearing, is the first police record published in the case. So far, the police department has refused to provide Calmatters with body camera or other reports. Officers cited the other driver to manage a braking sign and prosecutors cleared Cervantes. Police said the crash remained investigating.

Lucas writes in his statement that employees meet with Cervantes in the Emergency Department of the hospital in Sacramento after the early afternoon of several blocks from Capitol.

Last month, police said the State Fleet manager called to report the clash and that the Cervante headquarters was taken to the hospital.

Appears claim that Cervantes appears to be intoxicated

When officers arrived, they met Cervantes in the waiting area in the emergency room. Lucas writes that Cervantes is sitting and dressed in a black face mask and sunglasses.
Lucas writes that Cervantes “seems to be difficult to get into a permanent position” and she had an “unstable gait” while walking 75 feet to a private security room.

“When she removed the mask and sunglasses, she looked sleepy while talking,” Lucas wrote. Cervantes had a “thick blurry speech and sometimes came across the pronunciation of the words during his statement.”

She denied drinking anything, but when employees wanted to test for sobriety in the field, she refused and said that “she would have to talk to the Senate Legal Council first,” Lucas writes.

Employees suspected that this was “a tactic to delay an attempt to delay the Dui investigation,” Lucas wrote. Cervantes told the employees that he would not provide a blood sample unless the police received a search order, Lucas said.

A deputy prosecutor examined the documents before Judge Carlton Davis signed him at 17:41, more than four hours after the crash.

Later, police will tell reporters that Cervantes eventually agreed to the blood test before the order was allowed, but they decided to wait until they were released from the judge before taking a blood sample.

Cervantes’ lawyer claims that employees have lied

“The employees remained professional all the time, taking the time to explain the process and answer all the questions of the Senator,” a police statement said last month.

A square, a Cervantes lawyer, said it was no wonder that his client was unstable on his feet. She was just in a wreck that was off her car. She also talked with a law enforcement officer, who advised her to go to the hospital to be checked, he said.

After reaching there, the police began to treat her, “as if she did something wrong when she was a victim,” Quadra said. He added that, given their suspicion, it was no wonder that she exercised her right to seek legal advice. Quadra said that no other Cervantes had talked to that day, that he had noted that he had blurred a speech.

“I am not guilty of the judge for issuing an order when a police officer is hiding,” said Squadra. “And this one (a search order is) full of lies.”

The police spokesman in Sacramento SGT. Dan Wisman declined to comment.

Ed Shayashi, a law enforcement officer, lawyer and consultant who gives state police training courses, including how to prepare search orders, reviewed Lucas’ application at the request of Calmatters.

He said this was not the most strong statement he saw, but it corresponds to the “minimum threshold” of the probable cause. Shayashi noted that both a prosecutor and a judge feel the same.

He said the document could not see evidence that the police were prejudiced against Cervantes. They may have noted her Spanish ethnicity in the report, as well as the standard police practice, but employees would not have an idea of ​​being a member of the LGBTQ community, Shayashi said.

“I want to say she has a sign around her neck that says this?” he said. “How would they know?”

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