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A man was charged last weekend with driving under the influence after police found him allegedly driving his riding lawnmower while under the influence of alcohol. This is a new one for the blog, which has covered driving cars, trucks and boats while intoxicated,...
The starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, Derek Lowe, was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of driving under the influence. He has been charged with DUI. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lowe was pulled over on Thursday night around 10 p.m....
Rick Springfield was arrested on Sunday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Springfield formerly played Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital" and is also the singer of the hit song "Jessie's Girl." Earlier on that same day, Springfield had...
As discussed in a previous post, faulty breathalyzer devices have led to hundreds of DUI cases to come under scrutiny. Several devices that had been used in traffic stops and DUI arrests since January have been shown to give erratic blood-alcohol readings. Prosecutors...
The discovery of defects in a certain model of breathalyzer has led to the reexamination of hundreds of DUI cases and could also result eventually in the overturning of hundreds of DUI convictions. While these defective breathalyzers were discovered in another state,...
A judge has tossed a DUI case against a 59-year-old woman who was being tried for driving under the influence on the basis of one failed field sobriety test -- one not even appropriate for her age. According to WTAE, the judge dropped the case against the woman...
As discussed in the previous post, a recent article in the Times-Georgian discusses the debate for and against DUI checkpoints in Georgia and around the U.S. Law enforcement officers say that the checkpoints help keep people who are driving under the influence off the...
A recent article in the Times-Georgian discusses the debate around DUI checkpoints in Georgia and around the U.S. Law enforcement agencies generally are in favor of the sobriety checkpoints because they say they result in many DUI arrests, but others wonder question...
An executive and heiress of Ford Motor Co was arrested and charged with DUI last week. She is suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol while her 11-year-old son was a passenger, and so she has also been charged with endangering the life of someone under 16....
Whenever you are behind the wheel of some kind of vehicle, you can be charged with driving that mode of transport while under the influence of alcohol. Even a horse, apparently, as covered in a previous post. This blog has covered the gamut of DUI charges, but never...