Drunk Driving DUI Law

Four months after South Carolina stiffened the penalty for drinking and driving, law enforcement says it’s still too early to gauge its impact. Aiken County South Carolina DUI So far, the South Carolina Highway Patrol says it has seen a few more DUI arrests in Aiken County compared to the same period last year. Since [...]

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Victor Pellegrino, a Tampa DUI attorney, was an expert on DUI law. Pellegrino died Friday after succumbing to bladder and lung cancer. He was 60. For much of his professional life, Pellegrino defended Florida DUI cases. He was the lead attorney on more than 1,000 cases and successfully challenged portions of the state driving under [...]

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A northern Illinois mother has been sentenced to 45 days in jail and 4 years of probation for a fatal DUI crash that killed her infant daughter and injured three other children. She sobbed as the sentence was handed down in LaSalle County court Friday. She’s scheduled to begin her jail sentence next week. She’ll [...]

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Dwayne beach was just a teenager when he died in a car crash on a Stafford County road. His family’s grief will not go away. And so far, neither have the legal troubles of the young man who was behind the wheel that night. The driver– then 17-year-old Arkee Hall was found guilty of improper [...]

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A Hawaii judge sentenced a man with 12 prior drunken-driving convictions and one for being a habitual DUI offender to five years in prison yesterday for his second habitual DUI conviction. What is a Habitual DUI Conviction? A person is a habitual DUI offender if he is caught operating a vehicle while under the influence [...]

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The man who runs Sonoma County’s program that combats drunken driving has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, police said. The California DUI suspect, 53, was arrested in Santa Rosa about 3 p.m. Friday after an off-duty firefighter spotted a Mercedes-Benz driving recklessly on Bodega Highway, according to the California [...]

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A Florida man faces a multitude of charges, including Florida DUI, after being stopped by the Niceville Police Department in the middle of the road, according to authorities. The Florida DUI suspect, 49, allegedly told the police officers who pulled him over that he was having car trouble, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports. The [...]

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A western Pennsylvania couple are both charged with drunken driving in connection with the same vehicle crash and will enter a special probation program for first time offenders. Police charged 45-year-old Robert Kotoff Sr. and his wife, 42-year-old Tina Kotoff, after their vehicle hit a tree in Daugherty Township on April 5. When police found [...]

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Leon Hall gets off DUI, pleads guilty to reckless operation of a vehicle. Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Leon Hall escaped charges of drunken driving on Monday when he pleaded guilty to a less serious charge of reckless operation of a vehicle. Judge James A. Shriver handed down a 30-day jail sentence, but suspended all but three [...]

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A DUI conviction in Florida for someone who holds a commercial drivers license (CDL) and of course wants to keep their CDL can mean REAL BAD NEWS. Florida DUI Law states: BAC limit for commercial drivers is .04 or higher, or refusal to take breath test. One-year license revocation for 1st offense. Permanent disqualification of [...]

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