DUI Law News

Experts Testify on BAC Level in Fatal DUI Trial in New Jersey

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Sunday, February 7th 2010 at 6:04pm

Experts believe that the man charged in a fatal DUI from 2006 may have had a BAC four times the legal limit, NJ.com is reporting. On April 20, 2006, a car hit two teenage girls as they walked down the side of a New Jersey road coming back from a movie theater. They were killed, and [...]
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Woman Charged with DUI while Taking her Child to School

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, February 5th 2010 at 12:04pm

A Florida woman’s decision to drink and drive is once again highlighting the unexpected consequences a DUI can have. Tampa Bay Online reports a that a 39-year-old woman is accused of driving an 11-year-old child to school while under the influence of illegal drugs. According to police, she crashed her car into another car, and into [...]
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Actors and Athletes Alike Face DUI Charges

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 12:04pm

From actors to athletes, local police departments show no favoritism to those that drink and drive. Rey Maualuga, a linebacker for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals,- was recently arrested in Covington, Kentucky, for allegedly driving under the influence. The New York Times reported that Maualuga was arrested last Friday morning and held in the Kenton County Jail for [...]
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New Hampshire Woman Gets 3 DUI Arrests in 1 Week

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Monday, February 1st 2010 at 6:04pm

The penalties for a DUI conviction can dramatically increase with multiple convictions. But one woman in New Hampshire pushed these laws to their limits recently. The Associated Press recently reported that a woman in Concord, N. H. was arrested three times in one week for allegedly driving under the influence. Patricia Mondro now faces a $50,000 cash [...]
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Maryland Law Would Require DUI License Plates

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Saturday, January 30th 2010 at 6:04pm

DUI Offenders in Maryland may soon be easy to spot. Delmarvanow.com, the online arm of the Salisbury Daily Times, is report that state legislators have introduced a bill that would require repeat DUI offenders to place a special license plate on their vehicle. Maryland delegate Marvin E. Holmes Jr., of Prince George’s County, has introduced the bill [...]
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Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds DUI of Parked, Sleeping Driver

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Thursday, January 28th 2010 at 6:04pm

In 2007, a Minnesota man was arrested after police found him asleep at the wheel of his car, parked in his designated spot in front of his own apartment building. According to the Star Tribune, Daryl Fleck was drunk, and he was subsequently charged with driving under the influence. Recently, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a [...]
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NFL Hall of Famer Bruce Smith Pleads Guilty to DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Sunday, January 24th 2010 at 12:04pm

National Football League Hall of Fame defensive end Bruce Smith recently pleaded guilty to drunk driving in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Associated Press reports that Smith cited a desire to be a responsible asset to the community in his decision to plead guilty. As a part of the guilty plea, Smith agreed to pay a $1,000 fine [...]
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School Bus Driver Arrested for DUI While on Field Trip

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, January 22nd 2010 at 12:04pm

School bus driver Brian Dunlap faces a litany of charges after he was arrested and charged with DUI while on the job driving teenagers to a field trip destination. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that chaperons on the field trip called 911 when they noticed that Dunlap, their bus driver, was acting strangely. A Pittsburgh Police report [...]
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South Dakota Woman Sets State Blood Alcohol Content Record

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 12:04am

A South Dakota woman received a dubious honor in December when she doubled the state’s previous record for blood alcohol content. On Dec. 1 of last year, state troopers found Marguerite Engle passed out in the driver?s seat of a stolen van on the side of a highway. Engle, 45, was found to have a shocking .708 [...]
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St. Cloud Woman Arrested for DWI with Infant

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 6:04pm

A woman in St. Cloud, Minn. was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of hitting a pedestrian with her car while in a parking lot, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. The woman was allegedly driving drunk, and had an infant in the car with her. Police were dispatched for a verbal disturbance, which escalated to [...]
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Orange County Teenager Suspected of Felony DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Saturday, January 9th 2010 at 12:04pm

After a single-vehicle drunk driving crash that sent one man to a trauma center with severe injuries, an 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI. Danielle Everman of Fountain Valley, Calif. was arrested in December after she crashed her Ford Explorer into a guard rail, severely injuring her passenger, 20-year-old Jacob Dearman. According to a police [...]
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DUI Laws: New York Gets Strict

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 6:04pm

Last year, New York state saw about 12,000 DUI-related deaths, according to local CBS news. As a result, the state has recently enacted strict new DUI laws to help decrease the number of fatal accidents. State Governor David Patterson signed the Child Passenger Protection Act, which outlines some of the toughest DUI laws in the country [...]
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Colorado Springs Crime Lab Botched BAC Tests

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Monday, January 4th 2010 at 6:04pm

The Associated Press is reporting that hundreds of DUI cases could be impacted by the flawed results of blood-alcohol tests coming out of an area crime lab. According to law enforcement, at least 82 blood tests since January 2009 have registered higher blood-alcohol contents than they should have. These flawed tests were exposed as a result [...]
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Did You Get Killed Because You Drove Drunk? Should?ve Signed This Contract

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 30th 2009 at 6:04pm

Stop and think before you get behind the wheel on New Year’s Eve. This is the motto of one Georgia funeral home – a family business that has been running Operation Stop and Think for the past 10 years. According to a CNN report, McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome, Ga. has been offering a [...]
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DUI Fines Pay for New Cruisers, Breathalyzers

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Monday, December 28th 2009 at 6:04pm

If you’re drinking and driving in the state of Illinois this holiday season, keep this in mind: When pulled over for DUI, the money you pay in fines will go in part to funding new cop cars and updated breathalyzer machines. According to a report from the Illinois News Tribune, as much as 20 percent of [...]
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Total DUI?s Top 10 DUIs of the Decade

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, December 18th 2009 at 6:04pm

The first decade of the new millennium came in with a bang – everyone was freaked out about Y2K, and ringing in the year 2000 might have been the biggest party Times Square has ever seen. Along with all the fun to be had in the 2000s, there was also many-a-busted celebrity found to be “under [...]
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Taxi Vouchers for the Holidays ? Helping Curb DUIs?

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, December 15th 2009 at 12:04am

A charity group based in Beverly Hills – the Lev Foundation – has a printable voucher for a $10 cab ride posted on its Web site. The vouchers will be available through the month of December. According to an Associated Press article, the Lev Foundation was created last year by the friends and family of 25-year-old [...]
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DUI Fatality Rate Has Fallen!

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 6:04pm

According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, the number of deaths caused by drunk driving decreased by seven percent between 2007 and 2008. The number of deaths in 2007 was 13,041 and in 2008 it was recorded at 11,773, which is 1,268 fewer deaths than the previous year. This recent decrease mirrors a trend that [...]
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DUI While Asleep in a Buggy

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 6:04pm

An Amish man was arrested for DUI when he was discovered sleeping ‘behind the wheel’ of a moving buggy, according to an Associated Press report. The horse was spotted pulling the buggy at a slow walking pace in the middle of the road on Sunday night. Police discovered a 22-year-old man asleep in the driver’s seat of [...]
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A Day of DUIs on Washington?s Whidbey Island

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 6:04pm

In Oak Harbor, Wash., a small community off the coast of Washington on Whidbey Island, two bizarre incidents occurred on the same day, both allegedly involving driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The first accident involved a 22-year-old woman who was driving her Volkswagen Beetle on Midway Boulevard, a road that travels directly toward [...]
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