Drunk Driving DUI Law

A lawyer for Grammy award nominated rapper Nas refutes reports of the rapper’s DUI charges from a Sept. 10 arrest. John C. Mayoue represents the New York native. “Nas has not been charged with any offense whatsoever, including DUI,” said Mayoue. “The state’s own lab results were negative for any drugs, including marijuana.” According to [...]

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“I hate drunk driving,” Richard Essen once told The Wall Street Journal. Yet he was also one of the nation’s leading defenders of those accused of it. Mr. Essen, who died Nov. 30 at age 70, was among a handful of lawyers who in the early 1980s developed what became a legal specialty with practitioners [...]

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Police in central Pennsylvania say they arrested an Amish man on drunk driving charges over the weekend after he was found asleep in his moving buggy. East Lampeter Township Police say 22-year-old Elmer Stoltzfoos Fisher, of Paradise, was slumped over and asleep in a slow-moving buggy on Sunday night. An off-duty officer from nearby Quarryville [...]

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After days of speculation over whether U.S. Attorney Gerard Sullivan received preferred treatment when he was pulled over on Thanksgiving, Police Chief Stephen McCartney announced Sullivan will be charged with drunk driving. The public figure was arrested Thanksgiving morning when officers noted him driving erratically. They had received reports of a drunken driver in a [...]

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Vermont state Auditor Tom Salmon says he wants to move forward after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. During a Thursday court appearance in Barre, Salmon entered the plea and agreed to pay a fine of $500 and $376 in court costs. His license also has been suspended. Salmon [...]

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Driving records show the 19-year-old who plowed into a minivan in Sonoma County, killing a family of four, previously had his license suspended for drunken driving. The state Department of Motor Vehicles says Steven Culbertson of Lakeport also was involved in a crash in Lake County in June 2007. Details of the crash are not [...]

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tandout Florida defensive end Carlos Dunlap has been suspended from Saturday’s SEC Championship Game after his DUI arrest early Tuesday morning, UF coach Urban Meyer announced after practice Tuesday. There is no timetable for Dunlap’s possible return. “Carlos obviously made a very poor decision,” Meyer said. “I have not spoken to him or his family [...]

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