Drunk Driving DUI Law

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 related.
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We’ve seen the DUI checkpoints which are aimed to keep drunk drivers off the streets. Now, the state wants one more preventive measure: this time for convicted DUI offenders. The Transportation and Judiciary Committees are looking into a bill that would require first time offenders to install breathalyzers in their cars. The interlock device would [...]

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Chicago DUI Attorney Michael Pasquinelli prosecuted hundreds of DUI cases as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, and knows from experience what you’re up against. After agreeing to represent an individual, Mr. Pasquinelli looks at the facts and circumstances surrounding the offense and advises the client on a case [...]

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A Chicago alderman charged with DUI early Wednesday morning says she wasn’t drunk.
As proof of her sobriety, Ald. Sharon Dixon (24th Ward) said she never used the bathroom once during her seven hours at a North Side police station. She also said she believes officers arrested her because she was “going to write them up” [...]

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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.
Rosemary Newell, [...]

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The “Avoid the 14″ holiday drunk driving campaign in San Luis Obispo County is now over.
County law enforcement says the Avoid the 14 campaign netted 275 DUI arrests from the end of November to January 1.
The number of DUI arrests made is down compared to the 2007 campaign, but it is up from two years [...]

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The California Highway Patrol is reporting that the driver of a vehicle that crossed into oncoming traffic and smashed head-on into another car, causing five injuries, was arrested for alleged drunken driving.
The crash took place around 7:15 p.m. Saturday on Willow Glen Drive east of Steele Canyon Road, the dispatcher said.
She said the driver of [...]

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It was only a matter of time until Charles Barkley’s DUI arrest had serious repercussions for the NBA star.
Barkley will take a leave of absence from TNT for a minimum of several weeks with no return date set, a source told the AP. David Levy, president of TNT Sports, released a statement that reads in [...]

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Despite his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence early yesterday, Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson will play in Sunday’s AFC divisional playoff game at Pittsburgh.

Jackson, 25, was driving east on state Route 52 near Interstate 805 just after 2:30 a.m. when he was pulled over for an observed traffic [...]

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Arrests of allegedly intoxicated drivers over the holiday period ending Jan. 1 were up in most north state communities compared to 2007.
In Tehama County, where a grant-funded “Avoid the 5″ campaign began Dec. 14, officers from five law enforcement agencies made 36 arrests.
There were 26 arrests for the same period in 2007.
In Glenn County, where [...]

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