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Truck Injury Lawyer Blog
92,500 Commercial Drivers DUI Daily and 2,210,750 CDL Drivers and Tractor Trailers Violating Safety Laws Every Day
By Morgan Adams
For years, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has been reporting that fewer violations have been found during annual road checks. This year 23.9% of all inspected trucks were found to…
EvidenceProf Blog
Legislature Under The Influence: Kentucky Court Finds That Driver Lacks Standing To Raise Separation Of Powers Claim In DUI Case
By Colin Miller
The recent opinion of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky in Veltrop v. Commonwealth, 2008 WL 2940790 (Ky.App. 2008), found that a driver lacked standing to challenge a portion of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
When you got to go (to sentencing), you got to go
Main June 11, 2008When you got to go (to sentencing), you got to goThis local story, headlined "25 miles from court and in want of a ride, man puts sole…
Frisco DWI Lawyer and Attorney Blog
Alcohol Awareness Courses in Collin County
If you are place on deferred probation for a DUI charge, you were probably ordered to attend an Alcohol Awareness Course. The program is 6 hours long. This course, as…
Frisco DWI Lawyer and Attorney Blog
DWI Attorneys certifited in SFST’s (Standardized Field Sobriety Tests)
I spent this past weekend at a certification course to gain the same certification the police officers have in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing. I was going to attempt a daily…
EvidenceProf Blog
Seattle’s Best?: Seattle Judges Rule That Breath Test Results Will Be Inadmissible Until Accuracy Problems Are Fixed
By Colin Miller
Last week, I wrote about the ruling by a Tucson judge questioning the reliability of the alcohol breath test used in Arizona since December 1, 2006 and thus jeopardizing countless…
Texas Injury Law Blog
Drunk Driver Indicted on Murder Charges
Fort Worth News Reports, A Fort Worth man, convicted three times of drunken driving, was indicted Thursday on a charge of murder, accused of driving drunk and killing a 4-year-old…
Austin DWI Lawyer
On DUI / DWI Blogging: No Need to Overstate Your Case
You can click the topics and tags in this blog to see my various thoughts on the over-punishment of DWI convictions in Texas. For ‘just a class B misdemeanor’ it’s inarguably…
EvidenceProf Blog
Tucson Judge Sends Breath Test Results To The Drunk Tank; Judges Statewide Might Follow Suit
By Colin Miller
A ruling by a City Court judge in Tucson could affect every alcohol breath test conducted in Arizona since December 1, 2006. That was the date when Arizona adopted the…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Getting Tough on DWI
Folks often suggest stories to me that they think I ought to blog about. For some reason, this seems to primarily consist of advice like “Did you see that [Paris Hilton/Lindsay…