Showing posts with label drunk driving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drunk driving. 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...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas

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As you listen to this, just remember that the best way to avoid a drunk driving conviction is not to drive if you' ve been drinking. So,...
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...
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 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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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, 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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Monday, July 22, 2013

No refusal isn't just for weekends anymore

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No longer must we wait for holidays and three-day weekends to celebrate the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment. Now, in Harris County, we ...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

More problems with breath tests up in Conroe

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Earlier this month I posted an article about how the Montgomery County DA's Office and the Texas DPS were trying to paper over a colossa...
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 ...