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Catherine Amato

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San Antonio Express-News courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala has the latest updates on the ongoing saga involving local business woman Catherine Amato and a now reinstated February DWI charge that has led to the resignation of a Bexar County DA office employee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

San Antonio Express-News courts reporter Elizabeth Zavala has the latest updates on the ongoing saga involving local business woman Catherine Amato and a now reinstated February DWI charge that has led to the resignation of a Bexar County DA office employee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

DWI Case Reinstated Against Catherine Amato

Brian Chasnoff

In February, a magistrate judge ruled that police could use “all reasonable force necessary” to draw the blood of Catherine Amato, who was refusing to submit to any sobriety tests or provide samples of her breath or blood after being pulled over, with the presiding judge finding that a San Antonio police officer had “probable cause” to believe that Amato was driving while intoxicated on NW Loop 410, the second time in less than two years that the prominent local businesswoman had been charged with that offense. But on April 24th, less than two months after Amato’s blood was forcibly drawn, outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood’s office dismissed the DWI charge, and Amato is now seeking to have all records of the case destroyed, with an expunction hearing set for next month. San Antonio Express-News metro columnist Brian Chasnoff discusses his investigation into the what happened that day in February and the story behind how the DWI charge came to be dismissed.

In February, a magistrate judge ruled that police could use “all reasonable force necessary” to draw the blood of Catherine Amato, who was refusing to submit to any sobriety tests or provide samples of her breath or blood after being pulled over, with the presiding judge finding that a San Antonio police officer had “probable cause” to believe that Amato was driving while intoxicated on NW Loop 410, the second time in less than two years that the prominent local businesswoman had been charged with that offense. But on April 24th, less than two months after Amato’s blood was forcibly drawn, outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood’s office dismissed the DWI charge, and Amato is now seeking to have all records of the case destroyed, with an expunction hearing set for next month. San Antonio Express-News metro columnist Brian Chasnoff discusses his investigation into the what happened that day in February and the story behind how the DWI charge came to be dismissed.

Brian Chasnoff | Catherine Amato DWI Charge Dismissed