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If you have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, you were likely given a blood alcohol test using a device called the Alcotest 7110 MK-111. The Alcotest is a device that measures the amount of alcohol in the breath...more
If you’ve been recently arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) in Tennessee, your case may be helped by a decision of United States Supreme Court rendered last month on April 17. The case of Missouri v. McNeely is...more
While the recreational use of marijuana was recently approved in Colorado, this does not give users carte blanche to get behind the wheel of a vehicle while stoned. Driving after having ingested drugs or medication is as...more
At approximately 1:38 a.m. on March 31, 2013, 20-year-old Raelene Martinez was driving with three others in Pomona, California. Martinez lost control of the vehicle and crashed into several parked cars. One passenger was...more
Drunk driving is a scourge across the nation. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 30 people die every day in drunk driving crashes. In fact, drunk driving crashes account for about one-third of all motor...more
The terms DUI, OVI, DWI, – however you spell it, drunk driving can mean big trouble in Ohio. ...more
The issue in Johnson v. American United Life Insurance Co., decided last week by the Fourth Circuit. was whether the Plaintiff's husband's death from a car wreck while driving intoxicated was an "accident" under his life...more
Here are tips about what works and does not work - What does not work: When you wake up, you are shocked to discover your car windows bashed in...more
The consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI) in New Jersey are quite severe for every convicted offender. Commercial drivers such as bus and truck drivers face additional penalties including...more
At Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco last week, they announced their plans to make internet search a little more conversational. With a little inspiration from Star Trek, Google wants users to search with casual verbal...more
A school bus driver with numerous DUI convictions. A nursing home attendant with several arrests for violent assault. An accountant who served time in jail for banking fraud. You are more likely to read a news story about a...more
A fatal accident is not what usually comes to mind when one hears "wrongful death." The term wrongful death often conjures up the image of someone being killed on purpose and with malice....more
A fatal accident resulted in the death of a bike rider, and now a young man is facing criminal charges for at least the third time. The Mobile, Alabama area man was arrested on suspected DUI and vehicular manslaughter after...more
A Massachusetts bishop and leader of a Roman Catholic diocese has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run accident in Rhode Island and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, according to police sources....more
Michael Wayne Upton is a serial DUI offender. The North Carolina man faces his ninth DUI charge after he was pulled over in Cramerton. According to police reports, Upton ran a red light and drove in the wrong lane. Police...more
Here are tips about what does and doesn't work in our legal system and why...more
Overview: The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream did not necessarily create an exigent circumstance justifying a warrantless blood test in all DUI cases. Missouri...more
We’ve discussed before the various forms of OVI cases in Ohio. But here’s a quick refresher. There are two general types—impaired and per se. An impaired offense means just that. The prosecutor has to prove that the driver...more
At Carlton Fields, Greg Cesarano focuses his practice on defense of corporations and manufacturers in products liability and commercial claims. He also leads Carlton Fields’ products and toxic tort liability practice group,...more
The former police chief of Truro, MA faces charges of driving under the influence of alcohol following an incident in January in Palm Beach County, FL. John Lundborn was police chief in Truro for just five months. He left...more
Everyone has heard of DUI. Most have some idea what those letters stand for—“Driving Under the Influence.” But that is a generic term. Ohio law has its own terminology. Years ago, we called it OMVI in Ohio (Operating Motor...more
An Oregon man learned that the best way to get caught committing a crime is to talk about it on Facebook. On New Year's Day police showed up at his door after they were alerted to a Facebook post he wrote about driving drunk....more
We talked earlier about narcotics and harsh Ohio penalties for distribution and possession of drugs. Drugs are illegal on the street and in your body when driving a car....more
Recent New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) regulations are some of the toughest laws in the United States against drivers who repeatedly drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Because of the new rules, about...more
Steven Davis will collect as much as $47.5 million following a jury trial which concluded in February. Davis was driving his motorcycle on State Road 434 in October 2006 when a pair of teens plowed into him head-on with their...more
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