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Don’t Drink (Coffee) and Drive

Ok, you’ve had two glasses of wine with dinner and it’s time to head home. You feel fine, but throw down a couple of cups of coffee to clear your head just to be sure. Then you pay the bill, walk out to your car, get behind the wheel — and one [...]

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-10-2010
Whatever Happened to “Drunk Driving”?

Drunk driving is bad. It’s potentially dangerous to human life. It should be punished. So, many years ago a law was passed: "Thou shalt not drive drunk". It was a fair law and it addressed the problem. So…what happened? Why do today’s laws...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-05-2010
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Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-02-2010
Drunk Driving Laws Trump Science Again

It is an unfortunate fact that law and politics repeatedly trump science when it comes to prosecuting citizens accused of drunk driving….. In People v. Bransford, to cite one notable example, the California Supreme Court was confronted with a defendant who was challenging his DUI conviction on...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-02-2010
Double Punishment in DUI Cases

When a person is arrested for DUI, his driver’s license is confiscated by the arresting officer and he is given a notice of "administrative suspension". He is also given a citation to appear in court to face criminal drunk driving charges. These are usually two very different procedures...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-26-2010
Due Process and DUI License Suspensions

So you got stopped last night and arrested for drunk driving. And right after the Breathalyzer showed a blood-alcohol reading of .09%, the officer confiscated your driver’s license and gave you an official notice of immediate suspension. "What happened?", you ask. Can they do that? I thought...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-19-2010
The New “Highway Robbery”: Money-Making DUI Roadblocks Growing

I’ve commented repeatedly in the past about how DUI roadblocks (MADD prefers the less oppressive term "sobriety checkpoints") are inefficient at apprehending drunk drivers. See Do DUI Roadblocks Work?, Do DUI Roadblocks Work (Part II), As a means of apprehending drunk...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-14-2010
Red Bull and Driving Don’t Mix

A recent university study confirms earlier research indicating that consuming energy drinks while drinking alcohol can reduce the symptoms and sensations of intoxication from the alcohol. Study Links Alcoholic Energy Drinks to Intoxication, Drunk Driving Feb. 11 — Bar patrons who consumed energy...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-12-2010
Latest Breathalyzer Proves No More Reliable Than Others

As readers of this blog are aware, one of my pet peeves is the public’s blind trust in the little metal boxes that analyze a DUI suspect’s breath and spit out a number that supposedly represents the amount of alcohol in his blood. The simple, scientifically proven fact is that all the...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-08-2010
More False Blood-Alcohol Tests

I wrote a couple of months ago about a growing number of false blood-alcohol tests that had been discovered in the Colorado Springs Metro Crime Lab. At the time, about 1,000 tests were suspect, of which 82 had been confirmed as being falsely high. See Hundreds in Denver Possibly Convicted...

Posted to DUI Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-04-2010

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