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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By: John Luke Matthews
Oh yes, DUI. You’ve heard it all before. In almost every car accident case you will hear, it’s most likely another drunk driver who’s driving late from a party and who got too much alcohol on his system that he speed and ran onto a pedestrian. Fear got into him and away [...]
By: Carson Danfield
As long as there are human police officers, injustices always will occur. A great many police officers feel they have done their job when they arrest a person for “mere suspicion” of DUI. In some instances, the arrest may be warranted, but sometimes it isn’t. As long as there are human police officers, [...]
Though some find it tempting to represent themselves in a drunk driving legal case, having a competent attorney, familiar with drunk driving cases is really a necessity. There’s often a chance the case may be dismissed depending on the circumstances.
If searching for a particular attorney for this situation there are state-wide, country-wide, city-wide and zip-code [...]
By: Denny Soinski
An Issue of Mixed Messages
How can something as prevalent, accepted, and accessible in our society as drinking alcohol be so harmful, unhealthy, AND illegal when consumed at or slightly above moderate intake levels? The simple asking of this question immediately uncovers a number of issues, one of which is the mixed messages that [...]
By: Lance Knowlton
Technically, Breathalyzer is a proprietary name for piece of testing equipment that determines blood alcohol concentration (BAC). There are two other types of devices that measure BAC, Intoxilyzer and Alcosensor, and they work differently than the Breathalyzer. This article will explain how each one works.
All three devices require a person to exhale into [...]
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