A Sarasota County music teacher was arrested Sunday for the fourth time since 2001 on drunk driving charges. Ronald Jodwalis has been convicted twice on DUI charges and has now been arrested for DUI on two other occasions. The Venice Middle School music teacher had a blood-alcohol level of 0.30 and is now in Sarasota […]
Drunk Driver Runs In To Five Cadillacs At Venice Car Dealership
A woman has been charged with DUI in Venice, careless driving and DUI with property damage after she ran into five Cadillacs at a Florida car dealership. According to ABC Action News, Susan Barnes’s 1992 Buick went airborne and came to rest on the hood of one of the five cars she hit. Florida Highway […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
