Legal Opinion
Pimentel v. City of Methuen
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 26, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17–11921–FDSPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
F. Dennis Saylor IV, United States District Judge
This is a civil rights action arising out of the use of an incorrect Spanish-language *263advice-of-rights form by the Methuen Police. Plaintiff Patricia Pimentel is a citizen of the Dominican Republic who illegally immigrated to the United States in 2003. She was arrested for drunk driving on October 21, 2014. After she was arrested, she was given an advice-of-rights form in Spanish, her native language.
The Spanish version of the form included incorrect information; for example, it stated that the legal limit for blood alcohol content ("BAC")…
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