Mar 27, 2024
Driving Under the Influence (DUI) is a serious offense that can have far-reaching consequences for those involved. Essentially, a DUI charge implies that an individual has been caught operating a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other substances. This impairment can significantly increase the risk of accidents, posing a threat to the safety of the […]
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Feb 27, 2024
When planning a night out, it’s crucial to remember that even a couple of drinks could easily push you over Florida’s legal alcohol limit. With the state’s severe DUI laws, those found over the limit face harsh consequences. Among these is the mandate for an ignition interlock device (IID) for DUI convictions, which prevents a […]
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Feb 08, 2024
OLYMPIA – In a bid to enhance road safety, the Washington State House of Representatives’ Community Safety, Justice, & Reentry Committee has put forward House Bill 2196, a proposal that could significantly change driving under the influence (DUI) laws. Sponsored by Representatives Donaghy, Berry, Ormsby, and Davis, the bill seeks to lower the legal blood […]
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Dec 20, 2023
Case reported in the Flordia Law Weekly Suppement Online Reference: FLWSUPP 3108PLAZ Criminal law — Driving under influence — Search and seizure — Vehicle stop — BOLO report — Continued detention — Arrest — State failed to prove that deputy had rasonable suspicion for detention or probable cause for arrest of driver that was stopped […]
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Dec 20, 2023
Online Reference: FLWSUPP 3108BARC Criminal law — Driving under influence — Evidence — Breath test — Substantial compliance with administrative rules — Twenty-minute observation period — Breath test results are inadmissible where officer stepped outside of police vehicle holding defendant for one and a half minutes during twenty-minute observation period, and officer was not in […]
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Dec 19, 2023
CREDIT – FL LAW WEEKLY SUPPLAMENT 3108MERL Criminal law — Driving under influence — Evidence — Positive test for cannabis metabolite — Reference to cannabis metabolite is excluded — State may move for reconsideration if it can establish, through expert testimony, that metabolite could have affected defendant at relevant time — Cannabis found in vehicle […]
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Dec 17, 2023
U.S. auto safety regulators say they have taken the first step toward requiring devices in vehicles that prevent drunk or impaired driving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Tuesday that it is starting the process to put a new federal safety standard in place requiring the technology in all new passenger vehicles. Read […]
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Dec 16, 2023
Yahoo.com by José Rodríguez Jr. The U.S. is recording alarmingly high cases of false DUI arrests Woman Having Stoke Arrested for DUI; for the last few years, police departments nationwide have conducted more “emphasis patrols” in order to curb drunk driving. But these DUI checkpoints are often federally-funded, and the overtime hours they provide are […]
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Dec 13, 2023
The 12th Judicial circuit in Florida is made up of Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto Counties. If a Client is arrest in any one of these county’s. they may be eligiable to enter a pretrial program known as the Driver Enhanced Treatment Education Rehabilitation. (DETER). The program is difficult to complete, but not impossible and if […]
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Sep 14, 2023
Criminal law — Evidence — Other crimes — Similar fact — Trial court did not abuse its discretion when it admitted evidence of a North Carolina case in which defendant admitted to shooting at a man where state presented testimony from firearms expert who determined the bullets from North Carolina crime and shooting underlying charges […]
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