Drunk Driving DUI Law

Riverside police will participate with other Missouri law enforcement agencies this weekend in a statewide crackdown on drunken driving.
Law enforcement agencies across the state will increase their enforcement of the state’s DUI laws beginning Friday and ending Sunday.
“It’s never worth the risk to drive while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Drivers could lose [...]

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Law enforcement will be on the lookout for drunken drivers during the coming Cinco de Mayo and Memorial Day weekends.
Avoid the 21, Alameda county’s multijurisdictional crackdown on impaired drivers, joins 40 other similar campaigns in the state in the effort to crack down on drunken drivers during the holiday weekends.
Ninety-eight people were arrested during a [...]

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Recently Lance Platt, a certified NHTSA SFST practitioner, instructor and trainer, published a paper in the DWI Journal: Law & Science that examined the differences between the manner in which officer are trained to perform field sobriety tests and the manner in which they actually administer them.
For the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test, Mr. Platt recognized [...]

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“Going out this week to party?” a press release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s office asks.
If so, be forewarned that law enforcement officers throughout Missouri will crack down on drunken driving this weekend with increased enforcement.
The enforcement will take place sometime between Friday and Sunday. No location was disclosed or the type of enforcement — [...]

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A Denver Post analysis has found that about 10,000 drunken drivers arrested in Colorado each year are repeat offenders.
Police arrest roughly 31,000 drunken drivers a year, so about one in three has at least one previous DUI.
The Post examined records of arrests made from 2005 to 2007.
From 2005 to 2007, an average of 31,011 suspected [...]

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North Carolina reported that six police officers were arrested on charges related to changing DWI records and charges.
Each of the officers faces multiple felony charges. One officer is facing 65 felong counts!
So what does this mean for your DUI trial? It means that there may be challenge to the evidence in your DUI case. There [...]

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A Northwest Side man was charged with a DUI after rear-ending a Chicago Police officer Saturday night.
Emergency crews responded to the accident on the 3800 block of West Lawrence Avenue about 8 p.m., according to Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford.
Stefan Gherguta, 33, of the 3900 block of West Argyle Street, was charged with a [...]

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A teenager who pleaded guilty to hitting and killing a Clarke County woman as she walked along a road with her 3-year-old son has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
At Thursday’s sentencing, prosecutors said Abel Gonzalez-Perez will be held in a youth detention facility until he turns 17 in September, then will be transferred [...]

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Sobriety checkpoints challenged as a waste of tax dollars.
The holidays are a time of year when law enforcement agencies increasingly target drunk drivers. In keeping with that effort, the federal government, along with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, launched a new anti-DUI campaign this week. During a joint news conference, it was stated that one in [...]

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a probable cause case where the defendant was unconscious, and therefore it was not possible for the officers to make any physical observations of his balance, coordination, or to do field sobriety testing.
The honest officers involved in this case admitted that they didn’t smell an odor of alcohol (a [...]

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