Police notes on the traffic stop data sheet reveal that Caine had received a restricted driving permit for DUI and that his vehicle was equipped with a breath alcohol ignition interlock device, which tests a driver’s alcohol level before allowing the car the start.
Caine said he came in contact with Laird a second time on the night of March 25, when he appeared at Caine’s apartment on a domestic disturbance call. The police report for the incident notes that a neighbor had complained of arguing coming from the apartment, but Caine said there was no dispute and that he and his girlfriend were entertaining guests that night.
“[Laird] said, ‘I’m going to have to come in to see for myself anyway,'” Caine recalled, but his girlfriend assured Laird that no domestic violence had occurred. Satisfied with the explanation, Laird told them to keep the noise down and left.
Laird arrested Caine almost four months later, on the morning of July 15, when police questioned him and friend Marvin Reeves, 53, another exonerated Burge torture victim who spent 21 years in prison after being forced to confess to murdering five people.