Blog Posts in April, 2011
Posted on Apr 29, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A few weeks ago, we posted an entry about a Dallas police officer that was arrested for DWI in November. The officer had pulled over onto the side of the road and fell asleep. During a search of her ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
State Representative Stefani Carter filed a bill that would prevent a person who has multiple DWI convictions from being able to have a license. The bill states that upon a persons fifth DWI ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Wow, it happened . . . again. It seems that the theme for the last few entries is when it rains, it pours. When there is a DWI , there is a second in the same night. Last Friday, we had an entry that ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Rachel Oberlin, one of Charlie Sheen's ex-girlfriends, pleaded guilty to DWI in Indiana. As we detailed in an earlier post , she was arrested in February after she crashed her car into a pole. ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A Fort Worth Police officer was arrested for DWI earlier this month. The police officer was spotted driving erratically on Northeast Loop 820. Around 2:15 a.m., Haltom City police officers spotted the ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Two different police agencies arrested the same man in one night for DWI . At 4:30 in the morning, Connecticut State Police Troop stopped a car for failing to have his rear light properly illuminated. ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Two San Antonio Police Officers were injured after a firefighter slammed his truck into their squad cars. The Police Officers were out of their car because of a dog house that was on the highway. The ...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A few months ago the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reviewed a case where the defendant was charged with DWI . An Austin police officer saw the defendant around 1:30 a.m. around Austin's Sixth Street ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Texas remains one of the few states that have stood its ground in protecting the Fourth Amendment from the inevitable onslaught of proponents who argue for DWI checkpoints. A bill currently in the ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
The day that Texas Lawmakers were holding hearings concerning DWI checkpoints and mandatory interlocks for first-time offenders, a DWI victim was advocating for tougher punishment for DWI offenders. ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In a recently released opinion by the Court of Criminals of Texas they upheld the DWI conviction for a Fort Worth man. The defendant drove his car off the road and then walked away from the car. An ...
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Posted on Apr 14, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Men's Health published an interesting article ranking America's Drunkest Cities. The magazine use very interesting criteria to establish its rankings. These are (1) Deaths from liver disease; (2) ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
On October 23, 2010, someone called the police in Greenwood, Indiana after being hit by a beer bottle. The police found the defendant driving (riding?) along with his wife on a scooter. The police ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
An Arlington man was convicted for the fifth time for DWI . On August 2, 2009, Jose Isabel Lopez ran a stop sign and was pulled over by the police. The officer smelled alcohol on Lopez, observed beer ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
As we noted in an earlier post, a former San Antonio police officer was on trial for DWI . In the morning of November 2009, he crashed his car into a traffic barrier. This trial garnered attention ...
Continue reading "Update: Police Officer Found Guilty For DWI" »
Posted on Apr 8, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Recently, we posted about an Albany police department spokesman who was arrested for DWI . Detective Miller was a well-known police officer and was very well decorated. As noted previously, he had two ...
Continue reading "Update: Albany Detective Refused And Failed Several Tests During DWI Stop" »
Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
What is the legal definition of intoxication in Texas? The legal definition of intoxication in Texas is: (1) Not having the normal use of mental faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
State Representative Todd Smith, a Republican from Euless, Texas, has filed a bill that will allow first-time DWI offenders to receive deferred-adjudication . As of right now, a first-time DWI ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Winder Morales, a former San Antonio police officer, accidentally killed a civilian in 2006. A Bexar County grand jury did not indict him in that accident because he was on-duty at the time. However, ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A Dallas police officer was arrested for DWI in Fort Worth last November. Around 11 p.m. on November 25, Fort Worth police officer spotted a black Honda on the side of the service road. The car was ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
99 years--or at least, 10 to 15 years before he is eligible for parole--for man in Conroe, Texas on his 16th DWI . In August, 52 year old James Steven Corley was pulled over for a broken taillight and ...
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