A Pinellas County judge has sentenced a Clearwater man to 15 years for a drunk driving accident that claimed the life of an elderly man crossing a street on a mobility scooter. Angus T. Davis III pled guilty to DUI manslaughter,which is second DUI conviction. He received his first DUI in 1992. The DUI manslaughter charges stem from […]
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 […]
Florida Man Pleads Guilty To DUI Manslaughter And Gets 15 Years In Jail Plus Lifetime Driving Ban
A week after being arrested on charges of driving with a suspended license and carrying a bag of marijuana, Renee Rodriguez caused a fatal accident on a Lake Worth, Florida road. Now Rodriguez has plead guilty to DUI Manslaughter in that case and will spend the next 15 years in jail. He also had drivers […]
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. […]
St. Petersburg Man Crashes Into Police Car While Driving Drunk
Pinellas Park police are reporting a St. Petersburg man crashed into one of their police cruisers while driving drunk Wednesday evening. According to Bay News 9, Steven Jason Roberts, ran into the police car and then left the scene of the accident. He was later apprehended after abandoning his Jeep Cherokee and fleeing the scene of […]
DUI Manslaughter Trial In South Florida Set To Begin
It has been more than three years since two young women were killed by a man police believe was a drunk driver. The state of Florida will try to prove that to a south Florida jury this week. The trial of Edwin Perez on the charge of DUI manslaughter gets under way in a West Palm […]
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 […]
North Port Woman Spends Christmas Day In A Sarasota Jail After DUI, Hit And Run And Bribery Charges Filed
Most of us spent Christmas Day with our families but Lynn Marie Pierce spent her Christmas in a Sarasota County jail. The North Port woman was arrested on charges of DUI, hit-and-run and driving with an expired license on Christmas Eve. She then compounded it all by trying to bribe her way out of trouble. That led […]
Pasco Woman Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison After Killing A Man Following Her Second DUI
Heather Dinson pled guilty to DUI manslaughter last month and left her fate in the hands of a Pasco County judge following her second DUI, which resulted in a man’s death. The judge sentenced the 35-year-old to 12 years in prison as he took into account her previous DUI conviction from 1995 as he contemplated […]
St. Pete Cop Charged With DUI And Hit-And-Run Following Friday Night Crash
Anthony Matthew Green, who has been a St. Petersburg patrol officer since 2005, has been charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident following a Friday night car crash. The 30-year-old alleged blew more than twice the legal limit as his blood alcohol level registered at .179 and .173 when police located him […]
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