Drunk Driving DUI Law

According to court documents, a Phoenix Police Officer that was arrested for drunk driving in Gilbert, has been arrested for DUI before.
FOX 10 has obtained court records that show the officer was arrested 8 years ago for driving while intoxicated, when he was 19 years of age.
Records show he plead guilty to the charge back [...]

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The governor has awarded the Southeastern Arizona DUI Task Force more funds to ensure it has the resources to be on the road when they are most needed.
The $150,700 grant was awarded to the task force by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety and will go toward paying for overtime and benefits for task force [...]

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The Arizona Legislature is hard at work this year trying to make Arizona DUI Law, which is already the nation’s most punitive, a little tougher. This is the first in a series of articles examining the proposed legislation and discussing how it will impact the prosecution and defense of drunk driving in Arizona.
One thing is [...]

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Police officers in the Tucson Police Department received a large state grant in order to better enforce DUI laws in the coming year.
The funds will be allocated to enforcement of existing traffic laws through selective enforcement efforts, often called saturation patrols. Part of this enforcement includes a DUI checkpoint scheduled in the area this Friday.
DUI [...]

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A DUI suspect who is accused of crashing a Lexus into a block wall told Mesa police he knew he wasn’t supposed to be driving on a suspended license, but that he wanted to test drive the uninsured car because he was thinking of buying it.
The suspect, 37, of Gilbert, was found a block and [...]

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Nearly $40,000 in state grant money has been awarded to the Tucson Police Department to help enforce traffic laws and prevent drunk driving, including a sobriety checkpoint scheduled for Friday.
The $39,690 grant from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will help TPD with selective traffic enforcement efforts through September, according to a news release.
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While the number of DUI arrests in 2009 significantly increased in Arizona from the previous year, Graham County bucked the trend and had fewer DUI arrests over the New Year’s holiday than last year.
The Eastern Arizona DUI Task Force conducted saturation patrols New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and reported a total of nine [...]

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A task force targeting Arizona drunken drivers has netted 1053 arrests in the last two weeks.
The statewide task force Labor Day enforcement started August 21st and ends late tonight.
In a news release, the task force reported 359 people face extreme driving-under-the-influence charges, meaning they had a blood-alcohol content above 0.15.
The task force also reported 119 [...]

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The Arizona State Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Tuesday requiring either consent from the accused or a warrant to permit a DUI blood test.
Consent to blood test does not fall under the “implied consent” doctrine according to the courts. Rather, a suspect must clearly consent to having the blood drawn. A lack [...]

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Officers from the Southern Arizona DUI Task Force were deployed in the Tucson area over the Independence Day weekend, resulting in 55 DUI arrests from nearly 900 stops.
Of the 55 arrests, 18 of those were extreme DUIs, which constitute a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 or above.
Three of those arrested were younger than 21.
The average blood-alcohol [...]

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