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Austin DWI Lawyer
How Long Have You Been a Certified Peace Officer?
There are certain boring yet inevitable questions that often begin an examination of a police officer in a DWI (by a prosecutor) or an administrative license revocation ALR case (by…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Legal News – LexBlogosphere : 9/24/08
Once again, there was no major story dominating the legal conversation. As with most days, we do focus on the best entries on current events and recent legal decisions. Today…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
Submit Your DWI Posts for Next Week’s Blawg Review
I’ll be following up fellow Austin lawyer Todd Smith’s latest Blawg Review with one of my own over at my DWI blog, so please… all you criminal defense lawyers out…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
The $100 Six Pack
…or “How To Not Get Arrested for DWI” Background for the Post I went to see Steanso and his band play some excellent tunes from the 80’s a few months…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Austin Reacts To Forced Blood Draws In DWI Cases
Austin is the only Austin in Texas. Or, as the saying goes, “When you leave Austin, you enter Texas”. And Austin has reacted – albeit in a non-statistically significant way –…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Forced Blood Draws Coming To Austin in DWI Cases
KXAN ran a story tonight about Austin Chief of Police Art Acevedo’s plan to do away with breath test refusals in Austin DWI cases: "My intent in the future is…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Bill Mange wins a .12 DWI Breath Test Trial
I’m at the Rusty Duncan seminar in San Antonio, and news comes by way of the Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association listserv that Austin DWI lawyer Bill Mange just got…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Best Use of a Lewis Carroll Quote in a DWI Context
On the differences between what most people mean by intoxicated vs. what the Texas Penal Code, and what police officers mean, Dallas DWI lawyer Robert Guest starts his post with…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Out of State DWI Suspension and Texas Driver’s License Question
From an email: I was arrested in 2005 while in the military in North Carolina for a DWI. My license is suspended in North Carolina but is it suspended in…
Austin DWI Lawyer
Pleading ‘No Contest’ to DWI Tx and Preparing the Witness
Perusing my recent stats, courtesy of Mint, and I see someone has Googled the title of this post. Maybe I’m feeling overly suspicious tonight, but I’m tempted to suspect that…