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Tips for Protecting Your Rights if you are Arrested

By Patrick Adams
Learn your rights. The actions a person takes and the statements a person makes prior to and following an arrest can have a huge impact on your case!
Most importantly: Remain Silent! If you are being questioned chances are good you are a suspect and they are gathering evidence against you. Law enforcement will [...]

Your Right to Remain Silent When Pulled Over: Self-Incrimination

As a drinking driver, you must be aware that as the number of accidents and fatalities due to drunk driving increases, so will your chances of being pulled over. Police officers are cracking down on drinking and driving and will use any lawful justification to pull you over in order to probe further whether you [...]

Avoid DUI Arrest: Use Turn Signal When Changing Lanes

The next time you’re driving on the road in Michigan after having consumed alcoholic beverages, make sure you signal each time you change lanes. The Michigan Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Michigan statute, MCL 257.648, requires drivers to use a turn signal when changing lanes on a highway and is not unconstitutionally vague.
In [...]

The Controversy Over Roadside Field Sobriety Tests

By: Lance Knowlton
Roadside field sobriety tests (FSTs), developed at the behest of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), are commonly employed by police officers during DUI stops to determine whether a driver is under the influence of alcohol.
FSTs generally consist of a battery of three to five exercises, such as walking and turning in [...]

Some Sobering Information about Drunk Driving

By: Denny Soinski
Mandatory alcoholism treatment for people incarcerated for alcohol-related offenses and significant changes in our attitudes toward drinking alcohol, when added to the current anti-drunk driving campaigns and laws, are likely to make a major impact on reducing the number of people in our society who die in alcohol-related traffic accidents.
Three Sobering Facts
An article [...]

Liquor Store’s Liability for Drunk Drivers

By: Atty Gabriel Cosh
In the United States, many people lose their lives each year due to car accidents caused by intoxicated drivers. California is one of the states in the country with the most number of bars, restaurants and other establishments serving liquors to patrons. Consequently, there are a growing number of car accidents caused [...]

The Marriage of Alcohol and Driving

By: Atty. Gabriel Cosh
They say that there are always certain things that would not and could never be put together, and despite efforts of having them in the same boat, an inevitable result would be the sinking therefore. A classic example is the marriage of drinking and driving. Alcohol has always been the easy culprit [...]

DUI Defense

By: Douglas R.lipton
A number of people charged with this offense are not always guilty. Scholarly research shows that most of the sobriety tests performed are inconclusive. In many cases, chemical tests, breath analyzers (Intoxilyzer 5000), or infrared breath machines are not considered valid. Many of the field sobriety tests performed to judge whether the driver’s [...]

Court Denies DUI Defendant’s Request to Withdraw Guilty Plea to Operating While Intoxicated

On October 30, 2007, the Michigan Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion in the case People v. Bach, affirmed the trial court’s decision to deny the DUI defendant’s request to withdraw her guilty plea to a third offense of operating while intoxicated (OWI) with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher under M.C.L. [...]

DUI Defendant’s Ineffective Counsel Argument Not Enough to Overturn Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) Conviction

On October 25, 2007, in an unpublished opinion in the case People v. Joslin, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the DUI defendant’s guilty conviction for operating while intoxicated (OWI) with an occupant under the age of 16, a violation of M.C.L. 257.625(7)(a)(ii). After the jury found the DUI defendant guilty, the trial court trial [...]

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