Drunk Driving DUI Law

The colourful head of Germany’s 25 million Protestants, dubbed by the media as a mixture of Mother Teresa and Demi Moore, resigned after being caught drunk-driving.
“Last Saturday, I made a big mistake,” Margot Kaessmann, 51, told reporters. “My heart tells me quite clearly that I cannot stay in office with the necessary authority . . [...]

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A traffic stop of a suspected drunken driver led to the arrest of a murder suspect Saturday night.
About 10 p.m. Saturday, Merced area California Highway Patrol officers Collin Lowry and Scott Woodring made a traffic stop on a suspected drunk driver on Hillside Drive in the Delhi area.
During the course of the investigation, the officers [...]

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An East Tennessee grandfather has been charged with endangerment after police say they stopped him while he was driving, drinking and holding his grandson in his arms.
WRCB in Chattanooga reports that the suspect of Collegedale was stopped because his van had a broken tail light. The station says surveillance video then shows the driver exit [...]

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An arrest report says a Sullivan County deputy had to be placed in a K-9 cage after he became belligerent during a DUI arrest.
The Kingsport Times-News reports 47-year-old Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was fired from the sheriff’s office on Monday following an internal investigation of the incident.
The Tennessee State Highway patrol report says Trooper David Osborne [...]

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Jury awards ex-Stripper $100K for DUI wreck
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A Jefferson County jury has awarded a former stripper $100,000 in a lawsuit in which she claimed the club that employed her failed to stop her from driving home after her on-the-job drinking. Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer was injured in a wreck after leaving work [...]

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Nearly five months after he was released from prison after serving time for his fourth DUI and for fleeing a law enforcement officer, a 36-year-old Ocala man was taken into custody early Saturday morning on several charges — including DUI and possession of cocaine, according to authorities.
At 12:19 a.m. Saturday, Deputy Frank Porcelli was dispatched [...]

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Knoxville police have arrested a man they said assaulted an officer and then changed into women’s clothing in an attempt to disguise himself. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported a 19-year-old man was arrested Monday night on charges including DUI, assault on an officer, resisting arrest and burglary. He also has four outstanding warrants.
Knoxville Police Department [...]

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A Jefferson Circuit Court judge has denied the request of a for shock probation in the 2007 death of a Canadian truck driver.
22-year-old Emily Hall was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Abe Reimer on November 29, 2007. Hall was driving under the influence at the time of the crash on the Watterson Expressway [...]

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An Ohio man is due in court Friday to face DUI charges for the third time after serving 10 years in prison and losing his license for life in the 1994 death of a police officer, Fox 8 reported.
Police say they received a call Sunday night from a Green, Ohio convenience store customer regarding a [...]

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A motorized bar stool that got an Ohio man arrested for drunken driving goes up for auction this week on eBay.
Twenty-nine-year-old Kile Wygle was charged with driving under the influence after he crashed the contraption in March in the central Ohio city of Newark. He pleaded guilty the following month and spent three days in [...]

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