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The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the conviction of an African-American man arrested on drug charges after cops pulled him over for allegedly driving while chatting on his cell phone.
His lawyer had argued the traffic stop was predicated on a more trivial offense: driving while black.
According to court documents, in February 2007, four cops [...]

I had quite a lot of time to think about my new personal ban on cell phone use while driving as I inched along the Beltway this morning on my way to the office.
I decided to take that step the other day after reading the New York Times' extensive story on the subject, Driven to [...]