Drunk Driving DUI Law

Former TV host Gary Collins will be serving four months of hard time – in the comfort of his own home.
Collins pleaded no contest to DUI following his drunk driving arrest Jan. 31 in Santa Barbara County, Calif.
Collins, sentenced in March for his third DUI conviction, was fitted with a GPS ankle bracelet Wednesday, Santa [...]

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Emmy winner and 30 Rock guest star Rip Torn has been sentenced to probation in a drunken-driving case stemming from his December 2008 arrest.
A Connecticut judge approved the actor’s admission into an alcohol-education program on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Torn, 78, must also retake his driver’s test because of his severe hearing impairment, but [...]

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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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Former Phoenix Sun and current TNT broadcaster Charles Barkley pleaded guilty today to two counts of DUI stemming from his New Year’s Eve arrest in Scottsdale.
He also pleaded responsible to a third charge of running a red light.
Barkley was sentenced to five days in jail, more than $2,000 in fines [...]

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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 the comments [...]

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Actor-playwright Sam Shepard has pleaded guilty to speeding and drunken driving charges in central Illinois.
Shepard apologized to McLean County Associate Judge Casey Costigan during Wednesday’s hearing and said he never intends to drive under the influence again.
He was fined $600 and court costs and has been placed on 24 months’ supervision. He also has to [...]

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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 to the [...]

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chargers defensive tackle Jamal Williams was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, the team’s second such arrest in less than a month.
Williams was pulled over for speeding early Sunday on a freeway outside downtown, the California Highway Patrol said. Williams gave a blood sample for a blood-alcohol test, but the results [...]

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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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