DUI test: Cooper at twice legal limit

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Results released as senator surrenders, is released on bond

By BILL POOVEY
Associated Press

CHATTANOOGA — State Sen. Jerry Cooper surrendered Monday on a drunken-driving warrant that shows his blood-alcohol level was over twice the legal limit in a Feb. 7 wreck.

The accident left the senator injured and delayed his federal land fraud trial.

The Morrison Democrat surrendered in Rutherford County and was released on bond pending a May 11 court hearing, said his attorney, Jack Mitchell, of Murfreesboro.

Arrest records released Monday show that Cooper's blood-alcohol level was 0.18 percent. Tennessee's drunken-driving laws define intoxication as 0.08 percent. The result of the DUI test had been withheld until he surrendered Monday.

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