Drunk Driving DUI Law

As with the odor of alcohol on the breath, few police reports will fail to include an observation by the arresting officer that the arrestee exhibited “slurred speech”. (See post, “Alcohol on the Breath: Evidence of DUI?”). The officer fully expects to hear slurred speech in a person he suspects is intoxicated, particularly after [...]

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Now we’ve seen just about everything.  A man in Whitehall, New York was recently arrested for DUI after he was seen swerving around while driving his “Cruzin Cooler” – a beer cooler with three wheels, a handlebar and an electric motor.
Since when can you get arrested for DUI without the benefit of a car?  Well, [...]

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It is an unfortunate fact that law and politics repeatedly trump science when it comes to prosecuting citizens accused of drunk driving…..  
In People v. Bransford, to cite one notable example, the California Supreme Court was confronted with a defendant who was challenging his DUI conviction on the grounds that he was not permitted to offer [...]

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Phoenix, AZ. May 29 – Heather Squires was the designated driver. Never exactly a fun thing, but a college buddy of her husband’s was driving up from Tucson to celebrate his acceptance into law school. So when her husband, Jason, asked, Heather said yes.
At Chuy’s in Tempe, Heather’s brother and her husband and the [...]

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