After Your DUI Arrest, Can Your Life Ever Be Normal Again?
Thursday, November 30th, 2006| Man With 18 DUI Convictions Could Set State Record (Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News) A Barberton man with 18 DUI convictions could be on his way to becoming Ohio’s worst drunken driving offender. |
| Arizona ranks high for DUI deaths (ABC 15 Phoenix) A doctor-led safety group ranks Arizona as one of the 15 deadliest states for DUI accidents. The group, End Needless Death on Our Roadways, said Thursday that 42 percent of the state’s traffic deaths were related to alcohol last year. |
| Public defender faces new DUI arrest (Sun-Sentinel) A Palm Beach County assistant public defender on probation for driving drunk was arrested again on DUI charges this week, this time with her 7-year-old daughter in the car. |
| Police officer’s DUI case continued (The Jackson Sun) The case against a Jackson police sergeant facing a DUI charge in Brownsville has been continued until next year, according to the Haywood County General Sessions Court clerk’s office. |
| More people driving on medication, beating DUI conviction (Channel 2 News Anchorage) Anchorage police are increasingly arresting people for driving under the influence who are not drunk, but under the influence of prescription drugs. Prosecutors say loopholes in DUI laws allow the accused to wiggle out of a conviction. |
| Putting an end to the DUI cycle (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) Pomona resident Jose Sanchez, 28, didn’t stop drinking and driving after paying hundreds of dollars in fines when he received his first DUI. He didn’t change his habits after he spent two months in prison and enrolled in a 30-day alcohol program when he got his second DUI. |
| Editorial: DUI proposal swerves from common sense (The Daily Gamecock) Over at the State House, a plan is being considered to replace South Carolina’s existing DUI laws. Under the new proposal, sentences and fines for drunken driving would be based on a driver’s blood-alcohol level and nothing else. The higher the results of your Breathalyzer test, the more hot water you’ll be in, so to speak. |
| City Commissioner released on bond after DUI arrest (7 News Miami) COOPER CITY, Fla. — Cooper City Commissioner Bartlett Roper was released from jail on $500 bond Wednesday morning following a DUI arrest. |
| Man goes for state DUI record (WKYC Cleveland) Man goes for state DUI record |
| Prosecutors: Previous Soriano DUI Case Had Loopholes (The WBAL Channel) HOWARD CO., Md. — Authorities are reviewing a previous DUI case against the alleged drunken driver that killed two people, including a Marine, Thanksgiving night in Howard County. |