A new law set to go into effect in August will require DUI suspects to submit to saliva tests designed to detect drug-impaired driving. The bill, S. B. 258, which was signed into law in May, gives saliva testing implied consent standing under Alabama law. Drivers suspected of DUI who refuse the test would face an automatic suspension of their license. The law currently holds this standing for drivers who refuse to submit to a breathalyzer test.
Caleb Whisnand Sr., 32, stands accused of killing his infant son
According to AL.com, a site run by a collection of newspapers across the state, a detective with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office testified that Whisnand eventually admitted to killing C.J. but insisted that he didn’t intend to do so.
“He said it was an accident, he had hit his head,” Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Investigator
John Shepherd said during an initial hearing before Fifteenth Circuit District Judge
Tiffany McCord.
What’s more, the investigator said, the elder Whisnand was allegedly so ashamed that he craved his own death.
The Alabama man who publicly pleaded for his son’s safety and was then charged with his murder directed authorities to the 5-week-old boy’s dead body, a detective testified Friday.
The Alabama man who publicly pleaded for his son’s safety and was then charged with his murder directed authorities to the 5-week-old boy’s dead body, a detective testified Friday.