Drunk Driving DUI Law

Even the blizzard warning didn’t keep people away from the MADD Colorado kick-off of the 2009 Walk Like MADD campaign at the Pepsi Center today. Denver’s 4th Annual Walk Like MADD event helps raise money and awareness to support MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, which calls for lifesaving alcohol ignition interlocks for all drunk [...]

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Lawmakers in Harrisburg are trying again to change DUI laws so first-time offenders would have ignition-interlock devices installed in their vehicles.
Ignition-interlock devices require a driver to blow into an alcohol sensor when starting the car. If the device senses the driver’s blood-alcohol content is too high, the car won’t start.
State law says interlocks can be [...]

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Miami-Dade Circuit judge refuses bail of drunk truck driver who killed two.
Miami, FL (JusticeNewsFlash.com)–Thomas D. Cypress, the 54 year-old brother of Miccosukee Indian tribe Chairman Billy Cypress and a former Everglades airboat driver, was ordered to stay behind bars by a Miami judge on Thursday for two driving under the influence (DUI) manslaughter charges. As [...]

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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Miss Montana Jennifer Hepner has been charged with driving under the influence and has been suspended from her duties with the pageant.
The 23-year-old University of Montana graduate student had been pulled over Jan. 3 and refused to submit to alcohol screening, breath or blood tests. Her license was seized and suspended.
The [...]

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A judge dropped charges in a DUI case after a police officer’s report didn’t match video from the squad car camera.
On July 7, 2008, a Chicago Police Department squad car camera captured video of a traffic stop on Lake Shore Drive. The driver of the vehicle, Raymond Bell, was arrested for allegedly driving under the [...]

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Salinas police plan a sobriety checkpoint and saturation patrols, said Sgt. John Lynn of the Salinas Police Dept., coordinator of Avoid the 18, the cooperative law enforcement DUI crackdown.
Marina Lieutenant Thomas Melendy is sending out a DUI unit on Tuesday. “We will also be directing the beat units to make frequent stops at local bars [...]

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Arizona Athlete arrested on suspicion of extreme Arizona DUI
Former UA quarterback Willie Tuitama was arrested Saturday on an extreme DUI charge, police said today.
The University of Arizona senior, 21, was pulled over in the area of North Campbell Avenue and East Hedrick Drive at 2:20 a.m., said Officer Chuck Rydzak, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. [...]

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Nevada DUI Lawmakers
Legislators were urged Monday to tighten Nevada laws to ensure that people convicted of drunken driving in urban areas attend meetings with victims or family or close friends of DUI victims.
Assembly Judiciary members were told the victim-impact sessions must be part of the process, along with fines, possible jail time and other penalties, [...]

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From the Denver Police Department Operations Manual:
205.07.  Violations by Colorado Legislators.
(1)   Pursuant to Article 5, section 16 of the Colorado Constitution, no member of the Colorado General Assembly may be arrested while in route to or from legislative sessions, except for treason or felony violations..
(4)  In the absence of felony violations, should an officer have [...]

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On March 2, 2009, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a new Georgia DUI opinion reversing the granting of a general demurrer. The court explained that, based on the wording of the charging documents, there could not be any confusion as to what the Defendant was charged with despite the fact that the prosecutor forgot [...]

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