Drunk Driving DUI Law

Charles Barkley usually doesn’t pull any punches. And that is also true in the way he’s handling his latest embarrassment: his arrest for drunken driving. The Leeds, Ala. native and ex-Auburn basketball standout says he will “never get behind the wheel” when he’s drunk and is encouraging other people to do the same. Barley made [...]

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A former postal worker lost both her legs, her eyesight and normal brain function when a New York drunken driver slammed into her, pinning her between her mail truck and his vehicle. Maureen DePrince’s independence was gone. Not long afterward, so was her marriage. On Thursday, the man who admitted driving drunk and sleepy before [...]

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The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday that the only survivor of a car crash that killed six people in 2001 should not have been convicted as an accomplice to drunken driving. Teresa Hedlund, who was seriously injured in the one-car wreck on July 21, 2001, near the SuperMall in Auburn, was convicted in 2003. [...]

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A four-year legal battle over a DUI defendant’s right to examine the computer code inside the breathalyzer machines used in Florida resulted in a series of rulings in January that could prevent prosecutors in Manatee and Sarasota counties from using alcohol breath tests as evidence. Whether the rulings will stand remains a question. Prosecutors are [...]

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According to the Kansas state board that studied how the Sunflower State prosecuted and punished drunk drivers, the Wichita Eagle reports: The report, which was distributed to state legislators last month, criticized the state for: Having laws that carry the same maximum penalty — a year in jail — for a fourth-, fifth- or 10th-time [...]

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Tennessee Titans’ defensive end Jevon Kearse pled guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving Thursday morning after a DUI arrest last June. Kearse offered a quick apology Thursday as he left the courtroom. “Obviously, he’s upset and distressed that this incident caused adverse publicity for the Titans,” his lawyer, Roger May, said.  “He apologizes [...]

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LOS ANGELES—Rocker Tommy Lee’s helicopter pilot has been detained on suspicion of DUI after flying too close to a police helicopter and ignoring direction from a flight tower.Los Angeles police spokeswoman Officer Karen Smith says a helicopter buzzed the police chopper near Van Nuys Sunday morning. Smith says the pilot then failed to follow directions [...]

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The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Larimer County DUI Task Force, will be conducting a DUI Saturation Patrol from Saturday through Monday due to the Super Bowl. Current data shows that in the last five years, 63 percent of the fatal crashes that occurred over Super Bowl weekend in Colorado were alcohol [...]

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A DUI driver struck a Rocklin Police car at approximately 10:20 p.m. on Jan. 14 in the drive-thru lane of a local McDonald’s. The officer was rear-ended at a slow speed. Upon making contact with the driver of the vehicle, officers noticed symptoms of intoxication. She was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. [...]

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A Nevada woman employed to test drunk drivers has been charged with driving under the influence herself. She was arrested by authorities with the Carson City Sheriff’s Department after she allegedly drove drunk to the city jail to perform a blood alcohol content test on a suspect. She was arrested on suspicion misdemeanor drunken driving [...]

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