Recent Posts in DUI Category
Posted on May 1, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Each year there is an eleven day festival held in San Antonio, Texas. Due to the high number of alcoholic beverages served during that time, there are usually dozens of DWI arrests and even a few ...
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Posted on Mar 13, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Police in the city of Dallas made multiple arrests while investing an auto accident that took place on the North Central Expressway. According to reports, officers on the scene arrested three ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
After a DWI accident, a 7-year-old-boy remains in the hospital in Conroe, Texas. According to reports, the young boy was involved in a collision that caused him to be tossed out of a vehicle's ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In the city of Schertz, officers report that they placed a DWI suspect under arrest after he crashed his KIA into the back of an emergency response vehicle. Instead of stopping after the collision, ...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In San Antonio, Texas, a woman has recently been convicted for her role in a 2007 DWI accident. According to reports, 32-year-old J.Y. caused a collision while driving under the influence. News ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In Mesquite, Texas, news sources say that the family of a DWI accident victim now have a road sign displayed in their living room. The Texas Department of Transportation recently returned the sign to ...
Continue reading "Texas DWI Memorial Markers to Come Down after Two Years" »
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Since 2008, judges in the state of Colorado overseeing driving under the influence (DUI) cases have been able to use their own discretion when imposing ignition interlock devices during sentencing. ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In Houston, Texas, police were on the lookout for a suspect involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. On Tuesday, officers told news sources that a van license plate found at the scene of the ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By Plano DWI Lawyer
This week in San Antonio, Texas, a prosecutor asked jurors during a DWI trial to convict a drunk driver because she had caused the death of a police officer. The defendant, 59-year-old S.B., was ...
Continue reading "Woman Gets 45 Years for DWI Accident that Killed Officer" »
Posted on Aug 19, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Assume that a person has consumed several beers within one hour, for our purposes. The liver is absorbed into the blood stream and is then transported into the liver. The liver will then metabolize ...
Continue reading "How Alcohol Travels To The Brain." »
Posted on Aug 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
As we have noted, there are myriad of things that can affect alcohol absorption rate in a person's body. We can spend weeks detailing what can and cannot affect absorption rate. However, ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
There are some key, basic concepts relating the rate of blood alcohol concentration. Common sense mandates this principle: if a person consumes alcohol in a greater amount than what the liver can ...
Continue reading "How Does A Person's Blood Alcohol Concentration Increase Or Decrease? Continued." »
Posted on Aug 16, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
As we noted yesterday, alcohol will travel down the esophagus and will enter the stomach. Most of it will travel then to the small intestine, however, approximatly 25% of the alcohol will be absorbed ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Over the next several blog entries, we will discuss how alcohol affects driving, how alcohol is distrubuted throughout a person's body, and how law enforcement analyzes a person's blood ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Major League Baseball pitcher, Derek Lowe, was charged with DUI and racing. Lowe was arrested after a police officer saw his car racing another car in Georgia. After the police pulled him over, the ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Police use several tests to investigate whether a potential suspect has committed the offense of DWI . We have consistently argued that the Standard Field Sobriety Tests used in a DWI investigation by ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A 60 year old man was arrested for Boating While Intoxicated on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas this past Friday. Rangers with the Lower Colorado River Authority stopped him for a boat inspection and ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Driving Under the Influence (DUI) The drinking age in Texas is 21 and a minor who drinks alcohol and operates/drives a car commits the offense of DUI. DUI is a Class C misdemeanor in Texas. A person ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
An underage Texas A & M student was arrested for DUI and failure to stop at an accident. The victim called the police and reported that he was struck from behind and then the car fled. The police ...
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