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Show MOVIES CLINCH CASE AGAINST TIPSY DRIVERS Bv ROBERT WILCOX FRESNO, Cal., Ul.Hl California district attorneys are studying a fool-proof sobriety test for motorists motor-ists one which makes the ability of drunken drivers to pronounce tongue twisters and talk themselves them-selves out of arrest useless. Inescapable in the conclusion it presents, the new test has outmoded out-moded in courts of law the testimony testi-mony of arresting officers and the alibi of the drunken driver, whose every action is shown with a movie projector and a silver screen. Movie making, with the principal princi-pal role in each film played by the suspected drunken driver, was 1 strongly endorsed by District Attorney At-torney Dan F. Conway of Fresno county, in letters mailed to his fellow1 officials throughout the state after a lengthy experiment here. Taking pictures of drunken drivers, inaugurated in Fresno, has proved so successful other major ma-jor California cities, including Los Angeles and Sacramento, are planning plan-ning to adopt the system, Conway said. Film records, he declared, have resulted in guilty pleas by 86 of the first 100 arrests. Three drivers driv-ers who pleaded innocent were convicted with the aid of the films. On the other hand three cases were dismissed because the movies showed the defendants to be not intoxicated. "It cost us $7.50 to film each driver," Conway said. "This compares com-pares with the $200 it would cost jury fee and deputy district attorney's at-torney's time included to prosecute prose-cute a driver who has not been filmed and decides to take a chance and stand trial." |