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 […]
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 […]
Sarasota Deputies Stop 633 Cars At Checkpoint And Make Just One DUI Arrest
A holiday sobriety checkpoint setup by Sarasota County deputies doesn’t seem to have been the best allocation of the counties resources. The deputies spent four hours stopping every car going south on U.S. 41 but when all was said and done, there was just one DUI arrest made. The results of the Sarasota checkpoint seem […]
Shoppers At New Port Richey Target Store Alert Police To Drunk Driver
Shoppers at a local New Port Richey Target store noticed 59-year-old George Burnosky seemed intoxicated and when he left the store to get behind the wheel of his car people at the store alerted the police to a possible drunk driver. When Pasco County deputies arrived on the scene the Pasco man was asleep at […]
Marion County Elementary School Teacher Charged With DUI
A third-grade teacher from Dunellon, Florida was arrested and charged with DUI, speeding and reckless driving early Saturday morning. According to the website Click Orlando Pamela Jean Weingartner had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit as reported by the Marion County Sheriff’s office. Weingartner is a teacher at Romeo Elementary School and was arrested […]
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 […]
Police Officer Sued By 21 People For False Arrest On DUI Charges
A police officer with advanced training in DUI arrests is under fire for false arrests by more than 20 people who he arrested according to an in-depth story by ABC 7 News. A Chicago police officer is the target of a Federal Civil suit that claims the veteran officer targeted gay men and arrested them […]
No Second Chance For Those Convicted Of DUI In Intoxilyzer 5000 Cases
DUI defense attorneys in Sarasota and Manatee counties have been successful in getting hundreds of breath tests thrown out due to the unreliability of the Intoxilyzer 5000. The breath test machine has been used for two decades in Florida and the results from the machine helped to convict thousands of Florida driver’s charged with DUI. […]
Honor Student At MTI Killed In Crash On U.S. 301 As Alcohol Is Suspected To Have Played A Role
Police in Manatee County believe a drunk driver may be at fault in a car crash that took the life of a Manatee Technical Institute honor student according to a story on the Bradenton Herald’s website. Henrique Romero Graf was killed Sunday when his van was struck from behind on Tallevast Road. The accident took […]
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