Michael Mulligan has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a two-year-old boy in a drunk driving collision while on probation for two DUI convictions and awaiting trial on two other DUI arrests. Mulligan was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs when he ran through a red light and crashed into […]
New Port Richey Man Arrested For First DUI Despite Driving Drunk For Past 20 Years
A New Port Richey man made quite the exclamation to police Saturday night. According to Florida Highway Patrol troopers and the St. Pete Times Daniel Joseph Mahoney admitted to cops that he had never been caught driving drunk despite drinking and driving for the past 20 years. Well now he has. Mahoney was charged with […]
Gainesville Woman Charged With DUI After Hitting A Police Car And Then Leaving The Scene
Pasco detectives trekked to Troy, N.Y. to bring Deborah Terrero back to Florida to face charges of DUI, vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter. She is being held in Land O’Lakes jail and her bail was set at $450,000. TBO.com reports the woman’s arrest warrant states she was under the influence of alcohol or a controlled […]
Florida Gator Carlos Dunlap Pleads Guilty To A DUI Charge In A Gainesville Courtroom, Gets Probation
Former Florida Gator defensive end Carlos Dunlap has pled guilty to DUI in a Gainesville court and received the minimum mandatory sentence according to a story at GatorSports.com. Dunlap’s drunk driving incident will land him on probation for one year and he will also face a six-month driver’s license suspension. On top of that there […]
New Drunk Driving Laws Now Some Of The Toughest In The Nation
In a response to two tragic DUI crashes involving mothers and children, New York State enacted some of the nation’s toughest drunk driving laws this week. The bill in New York makes it an automatic felony to drive drunk with a child under 16 in the car. Violators will be subject to a sentence of up to […]
Same DUI, Different Rules? Seems So If You Are A Federal Prosecutor.
A federal prosecutor in Rhode Island had drunk driving charges against him dismissed by a judge on Monday according to the Associated Press. A lawyer for the city of Warwick asked that the charges be dropped against Gerard Sullivan, an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Sullivan was not initially charged with DUI following a Thanksgiving weekend stop. […]
Intoxilyzer 8000 Under Fire Once Again In DUI Cases Inside Florida Courtrooms
The battle lines are being drawn for a crucial fight over breath tests in about 300 drunk driving cases in Palm Beach County. At the heart of the matter is the controversial Intoxilyzer 8000 breath test machine. The machine has already faced stiff legal challenges in courtrooms in Sarasota and Manatee counties which resulted in hundreds of […]
Sarasota Judge Selected To Lead The State’s DUI Adjudication Lab
There is no bigger hot spot for the issues surrounding breath tests in DUI cases than Sarasota, Florida. Defense Attorneys in this part of the state have had great success in having 100’s of breath tests excluded due to the Intoxilyzer machines utilized in the area. It has been very frustrating for prosecutors in these […]
St. Petersburg Woman Crashes Into Neighbor’s House And Is Charged With DUI
A St. Petersburg woman won’t be popular among neighbors after driving her SUV into a near-by house. Gail Ann Kay has been charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident after she crashed her 2008 Jeep SUV into a neighbor’s home leaving a four-foot hole in a Snell Island home worth nearly $300,000. The […]
Schwarzenegger Signs Law Requiring Ignition Locks In Cars For First Time DUI Offenders
Yesterday California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law requiring first-time DUI offenders be required to have breathalyzer ignition locks installed in their cars as detailed in an article in the Sacramento Bee. The law affects four California counties and will require the driver to have the device installed for five months following his […]
