Drunk Driving DUI Law

A Colorado Springs teenager was sentenced Friday on charges relating to the death of a popular local athlete, David Mueller, in a tragic DUI accident last year.
Dylan Salazar may not spend a day in jail. Though a 4th Judicial District Court Judge sentenced him to 12 years in prison, a deal was worked out with [...]

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A bill to make a third drunken-driving offense a felony in Colorado was killed Monday by a House committee that questioned the potential prison costs.
The bill’s sponsor, State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said the estimated $22 million cost could be covered by state agencies cutting less than 1 percent of their spending. His bill drew [...]

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More than 7,000 Colorado drivers would face mandatory jail sentences each year if legislators carry out their promises to get tough with people who repeatedly drink and drive.
It will not be an easy promise to keep when the state legislature convenes Wednesday. The price of confining that many drivers even for a month or two [...]

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Is your license suspended or revoked because of a DUI in Southern Colorado? Some may get it back.
An error found in Colorado Springs DUI blood testing now has at least 82 test results being sent to an independent lab because they may have tested higher than the actual result.
Now, police, the district attorney’s office and [...]

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People who are repeatedly caught drinking and driving will not face mandatory jail time after a Colorado commission studying the issue rejected the proposed penalty.
The decision Friday prompted Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to declare it “a banner day for traffic offenders.”
The commission had supported a similar proposal in October but members decided to retry [...]

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Denver Daily News Reports:
Lakewood Police and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a mobile DUI checkpoint in the city of Lakewood on Saturday night. The approximate locations of the checkpoints are Alameda Avenue between South Kipling St. and South Hoyt St., Wadsworth Boulevard north of West 10th Ave., and the 2000 block of [...]

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Boulder police will step up enforcement Saturday in an effort to get Boulder, CO DUI offenders off the road.
The department plans on placing an additional officer on University Hill to look out for DUI drivers and another in the downtown area Saturday, both patrolling throughout the night.
The extra staffing is being funded by a $50,000 [...]

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An analysis of four years of sentencing data by The Denver Post found cases of people with as many as seven drunken-driving arrests who avoided going to jail and were allowed, instead, to serve alternative sentences. Sometimes that meant hanging out at home — a reality that perplexes Adams County District Attorney Don Quick.
“You shouldn’t [...]

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Colorado DUI Checkpoints Being Conducted
Nineteen arrests were made at an overnight DUI checkpoint on N. Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs.
The checkpoint ran from 10 PM Saturday night and to 2:30 AM Sunday morning on the 2700 block of N. Academy Boulevard.
48 evaluations were made out of the 898 drivers that were contacted. 19 of those [...]

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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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