Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Ignition Interlock Bill in Kentucky »
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- On Tuesday, a House committee has passed a bill for DUI conviction. According to that bill the DUI convicted people might have to pass a Breathalyzer test each time they start their vehicle.
This House Bill 58 will allow the judge to order for a breath alcohol-monitoring device for a person’s first DUI conviction. This ignition interlock device requires a person to go under a breath test before starting the vehicle; if the person will be too dunk to drive then the car will not start.
Democratic Rep. Dennis who had sponsored this bill told that the person who will be charged for this penalty would pay $2 to $3 a day for the device and that can continue for up to a year.
Keene said that he is sponsoring this bill because his daughter was injured by a drunk driver in 2002 and she have to go under three operations. He said that cost is not the issue if they can buy liquor then $3 a day is nothing, its almost equal to the cost of a beer in a bar.
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DUI Conviction Can Affect or Kill Your Car Insurance Policy »
Its rare that the people may know about that a DUI conviction can affect on car insurance rates. But its reality if you gotten a DUI and insurance carrier find out that then insurance premium will be doubled and in some cases it can be triple. The DUI conviction can have horrible affect on the car insurance.
There are few necessary things, which one should know that what could happen to car insurance after being convicted for DUI.
Those things are:
Is a Car Insurance rate will Increase After a DUI?
When you are convicted for DUI, then for car insurance company you become a risk and they will prefer to increase the premium rates. Simple reason for car insurance company for increasing rates for you is that they will consider you as a financial risk. Because a drunk driver is having more chances to have accident, and insurance company will lose money for any car accident that causes substantial damage.
What is an SR-22 Certificate?
SR-22 is called a Proof of Insurance Certificate that identifies you as a DUI convicted person. You can file SR-22 many times through your car insurance company. But in some cases your insurance carrier may not have an SR-22 policy, it will be because they wont be offering car insurance policies to those who have a DUI on their driving record.
When SR-22 is once filed through car insurance company, the insurance carrier must file it with the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). And one SR-22 is filed at the DMV then any car insurance company can have access to it.
Car insurance companies consider those high-risk drivers who are having SR-22 on file.
Will Car Insurance Company Cancel the Insurance Policy?
If they find out your DUI conviction they can cancel your car insurance policy. You can be forced to find another car insurance carrier to insure you with high-risk driver status or you car insurance provider may not renew your policy at the end of its term.
Finding new car insurance policy after being convicted for DUI is a big problem also. May be some companies will insure your car but many wont because DUI may imply greater financial risk to them.
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How Can You Defend Drunk Drivers »
Most people are outraged about the fact that lawyers defend drunk drivers. But according to most of the lawyers, they don’t defend drunk drivers: they only defend citizens who have been accused of being drunk drivers.
Defending someone who has been accused by the police of a crime, especially when it’s DUI, causes the image of criminal defense attorneys to deteriorate. And no doubt, every defense attorney gets tired of the question that he is asked at every party: “How can you defend guilty people?”
The answer to this question is quite complex, as it involves the issues of possible innocence of the driver, inaccurate or false evidence against the offender, overcharging by the prosecutor, ensuring a fair trial, protection from unfair laws and harsh or illegal punishment.
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Labor Day DWI Arrests Total 191 »
According to the district attorney’s office, the Harris County’s “no refusal” drunk driving program show nearly 200 arrests made over the weekend.
On Wednesday, the District Attorney Patricia Lykos made the announcement that nearly 20 percent of those facing charges also have previous DWI convictions.
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“The Death Penalty for DUI” Is it Justified? »
Yes, here I am talking about the death penalty. In a drunk driving case. Here in United States. For murder…… No, that is not for an involuntary manslaughter. Not for vehicular homicide. Murder. And that is a first-degree murder. Likewise someone has pointed a gun at someone and pulled the trigger. MADD has achieved so much success in their political pressure campaigns that they’ve actually gotten some courts and legislatures to create a new type of crime which is referred to as “DUI murder”.
Just hold on for a minute, you say. I thought if you want to kill a person then you had to intend to kill him or her. You have to "premeditate" and such kinds of other things, right? Well, yes and no. Of course, each state is a little different, but most od the states follow similar laws. And by those laws generally a homicide ("the killing of another human being") has been broken into different categories. The first one is excusable homicide that is such a homicide where, due to the self-defense or other justification, the death is not considered as a crime. Next one is "manslaughter" — basically, which is considered as a killing but that is not murder. Usually there are two kinds of manslaughter: voluntary and involuntary.
Voluntary manslaughter is sometimes referred to as a killing in the "heat of passion"; means that you lacked the time or ability to reflect on the act.
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Have a Close look at DUI Fatality Statistics »
The numbers of deaths on the highways caused by drunk drivers has justified the "DUI crackdown", along with the loss of constitutional rights. As it has been said by the U.S. Supreme Court in Michigan v. Sitz, for instance, DUI "sobriety checkpoints" seems to be violating our Fourth Amendment right to be free of suspicion less stops by the police but this illegal intrusion on our privacy is "outweighed" by the "carnage" on our highways of 25,000 deaths that occur due to drunk driving each year.
What is the source of these statistics? Several years ago, the statistics that had been kept on traffic fatalities by law enforcement agencies included a category for "alcohol-caused" deaths. However, these statistics were subtly changed to "alcohol-related" in order to justify such things as sobriety checkpoints, lowered blood alcohol levels and automatic at-the-scene DUI license suspensions. Here you must note that they changed it to “DUI related", but not “DUI caused”.
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