Showing posts with label DWI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DWI. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2018

Think long and hard about that second drink

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Beginning yesterday, the State of Utah has enacted the strictest drunk driving laws in the country . From this day forward, anyone who cause...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Drugged driving in Tornado Alley

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I saw a tweet on Twitter yesterday about a six-state initiative to cut down on drugged driving. This weekend in Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Miss...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

A misconception of justice

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One of the most common misconceptions of our criminal (in)justice system is that it's designed to mete out justice to both the citizen a...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Calls to lower the legal limit to .05

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In the latest step in the never-ending quest to criminalize everything, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have cal...
Friday, September 9, 2016

And the hits just keep coming

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Well, that certainly didn't take long. Already ankle deep in an evidence destruction scheme in Precinct 4, Harris County DA Devon Ande...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

More breath test shenanigans

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If you have been a long time follower of this blog the name Dee Wallace should ring a bell. She was the technical supervisor in charge of b...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Just looking for an excuse to affirm

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In 2012, Milton Kay was driving in Orange, Texas without wearing his seatbelt and without having a current registration sticker on his winds...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Where it's worse to smoke a joint than beat up your wife

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Last week Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended for two games without pay for an incident in which he knocked his (now) wife...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Sleeping is not necessarily operating

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In every DWI case a defense attorney must assess two issues - first, was the client intoxicated and second, was the client operating a motor...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth (or not)

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Yesterday the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association carried on a tradition born four years ago with the annual reading of the Declar...
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Friday, May 16, 2014

McNeely strikes again

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The State urges that we balance the public and private interests that are implicated in serious DWI cases and find that Texas’s mandatory b...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SCOTUS has one more for the road

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Lorenzo and Jose Navarette were minding their own business driving a truck down the highway with 30 pounds of marijuana in the bed of the tr...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Passing along the costs of blood testing

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As if the costs associated with a DWI arrest aren't high enough, prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney's Office are ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Invalidating the Fourth Amendment, Texas style

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In Missouri v. McNeely , the US Supreme Court held that the natural dissipation of alcohol in blood is not in and of itself an exigent circu...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Open mouth. Insert foot.

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And while we're on the topic of poisoning the jury pool, Jerry Ray, a visiting district judge in Travis County, takes the grand prize. ...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

When driving the speed limit is breaking the law

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If, on a highway having more than one lane with vehicles traveling in the same direction, the Texas Department of Transportation or a loca...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Vacuum at the top

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Earlier this month, after less than a year in office, Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson died from cancer. He had been out of the...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Everything you need to know about DWI

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I'm waiting for the special "No Refusal" edition that includes a rubber hose, needle and syringe for conducting forcible bl...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Neutral and detached? Whatever

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Sign belonging to Judge Bill Harmon sitting just outside the courtroom in the entrance way from chambers. If you examine the photo of ...
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