Showing posts with label alcohol concentration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol concentration. 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, 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 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...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Feds seeking to lower legal limit to .05

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The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that the per se  limit for drunk driving should be lowered to .05 . Such a move would l...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Something's rotten up in Conroe

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Texas DPS Standard Operating Guidelines for Technical Supervisors   1.1 An official inspection by a Technical Supervisor can only be ...
Monday, April 29, 2013

High court says no to warrantless blood draws - or does it?

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Tyler McNeely was heading home from a local watering hole one evening when a police officer stopped him for speeding and crossing the center...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Irish county votes to allow elderly residents to drink more

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County Kerry is in the southwest of Ireland. The rural county on the Irish coast is known for its mountains and winding roads. And now it...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Judge throws curve ball regarding Pennsylvania's breath test machines

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The DWI statute in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania establishes three levels of DWI offenses. There is a "loss of normal use" DWI ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

NTSB calls for mandatory ignition interlocks

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In 1928 Herbert Hoover promised that if he were elected there would be a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. Things, of course, ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Assuming that was his real purpose

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The other day I was in county court handling a client's DWI case. The judge was calling the trial docket and trying to figure out if any...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

A breath tester in every car

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It's one thing to punish motorists for exercising their Constitutional right to give up evidence that could be used against them. The co...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Maryland court finds DRE to be unreliable

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In 1979 two sergeants with the Los Angeles Police Department cooked up the Drug Recognition and Classification Program (DEC). The National H...
Friday, December 16, 2011

I'll have a fifth, please

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On Thursday morning, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer appeared before a grand jury looking into the troubled HPD mob...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

'Tis the season to give

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If you're planning on drinking and driving over the holidays, you might seriously think twice. More and more counties will be conducing ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Blood or breath?

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Is a blood test more accurate than a breath test? Is either one reliable when it comes to proving whether a motorist had an alcohol concentr...
Monday, October 31, 2011

You can call it what you will, but it's still illegal

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You may remember Ruben Trejo , he's the former HPD sergeant who collided with a school bus on his way to work -- with an alcohol concent...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Isn't it ironic? (Don't you think?)

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Sgt. Roy Marquez of the Houston Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Division (the guys in charge of the DWI task force) found himsel...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

HPD officers disciplined for role in cover up

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The other shoe fell on Tuesday as seven police officers, including an assistant chief, were disciplined for their role in attempting to cov...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What's the point?

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To secure a defendant's attendance at trial, a magistrate may impose any reasonable condition of bond related to the safety of a victim...
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