San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers at www.SanDiegoDUI.com and San Diego drunk driving criminal defense attorneys at www.SAnDiegoDUIlawyer.com hear a secret grand jury has declined to indict two San Jose police officers who were under suspicion of covering up a former cop's drunken driving, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Monday.

The decision not to charge Sgt. Will Manion and officer Patrick D'Arrigo was announced a week after Sandra Woodall, a former San Jose cop who now works as a district attorney's office investigator, pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

The officers did not test Woodall for alcohol after she crashed her Cadillac Escalade into two other cars on March 25, injuring a teenage girl. The cops were investigated months after the accident when the girl's mother complained.

While the decision was met with relief by those close to the well-respected officers, it deeply upset some who believed they clumsily and corruptly tried to cover up for one of their own.

"This is no surprise to us. There were so many conflicts of interest involved that to get a just outcome was impossible from the start," said the mother of the injured girl.

Coming on the heels of Woodall's shock admission, pressure now lands on the police department to decide how to administratively handle the scandal.

Said Sgt. Mike Sullivan, police spokesman: "The San Jose Police Department will now move forward immediately with its own Internal Affairs investigation." Chief Rob Davis will soon have to decide if discipline is warranted. Davis could potentially suspend,