April 2010 - Posts

• The Blue Wall Continues

  Following up Monday’s "Who-will-guard-the-guardians?" story from New Jersey, this one from Chicago: Judge Tosses Out Officer’s DUI Arrest   Chicago, IL.  April 27 – For more than two years, the families of two young men killed in a Thanksgiving Day collision with an off-duty Chicago police officer have fought to prove the officer was drunk and responsible for the deaths. But [...] Posted Apr 28 2010, 10:21 AM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog

• The Thin Blue Line

  The latest from the "Who guards the guardians?" department: N.J. Police Looks the Other Way After Fellow Trooper Drinks and Drives Trenton, NJ.  April 25 — It had all the makings of a routine motor vehicle stop. Police officer Ronald Gorneau spotted a silver Toyota swerving and pulled it over. The driver, Sheila McKaig, admitted she had [...] Posted Apr 25 2010, 09:56 AM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog

• The MADDness Continues….

  In today’s I-don’t-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry department: Drunk Driving in Barbie Car Costs Man Licence London, England.  April 20  –  A Briton caught drunk while driving a toy Barbie car, whose top speed is barely four miles per hour, has been banned from driving.  Forty-year-old Paul Hutton received a three-year ban as he had received another drink-drive ban within the past [...] Posted Apr 20 2010, 11:10 AM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog

• Cops with Needles

  I’ve posted repeatedly in the past about a disturbing trend in DUI law enforcement: allowing cops to administer blood draws along the side of a road.  See, for example, Forced Blood Draws in Back Seats, Would You Want a Cop Taking Blood from You? and DUI Cops Now Armed with Guns, Batons and…Needles.  To be more graphic, [...] Posted Apr 15 2010, 12:10 PM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog

• Judges Have “Different Role” in DUI Cases?

  Most of you out there probably thought that citizens accused of drunk driving were afforded the same constitutional rights as citizens accused of any other crime.  Included in this, presumably, is the right to have a fair and impartial judge hearing your case. Wrong.  The "DUI Exception to the Constitution" applies to judges as [...] Posted Apr 10 2010, 10:46 AM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog

• Can Your Body Manufacture Alcohol?….The “Auto-Brewery Syndrome”

  Can alcohol be created by the human body itself — without any drinking? Apparently so. In an interesting scientific article, two physicians at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore reported that they detected the odor of beer in three of their patients. This was in an isolated hospital setting; there was no access to alcoholic [...] Posted Apr 03 2010, 10:59 AM by DUI BLOG Filed under: Duiblog