Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Montana DUI Penalties »
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- Implied consent laws are the laws that require suspected DUI drivers to submit to breath, blood, or urine test for blood alcohol content. Refusal to that carries penalties including mandatory suspension of driving license for up to a year.
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
If any driver in Montana will be having the blood alcohol concentration above 0.08 percent then he/she will be considered “per se intoxicated”. According to this law only this evidence is enough to be convicted for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI).
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Central Florida Police charged US Rep. John Mica’s daughter with DUI »
It has been said by the police in central Florida that the blood-alcohol content for U.S. Rep. John Mica’s daughter was more than twice the legal limit.
D’Anne Leigh Mica was arrested on a charge of DUI on Early Friday morning
It has been shown by a Maitland police report that early Friday morning a 34-year-old D’Anne Leigh Mica was arrested on a charge of DUI. She was stopped by a DUI officer as he spotted her car drifting back and forth.
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Why every DUI suspect is considered as “Average”? »
One of the greatest sources of error in breath-alcohol testing is the consistently recurring fallacy that the individual tested is perfectly average in certain critical physiological traits.
Explaining this in other way, there are a number of assumptions on the validity of which an accurate blood-alcohol reading is obtained and its accuracy is completely dependent on the validity of those assumptions.
Unluckily, these assumptions are usually incorrect for the person being tested: It rarely happens that the person tested is “average” in even one of these critical characteristics.
‘Average’ Factor in Breath Testing Machine
For instance, it is assumed that the ratio between alcohol in the exhaled breath and alcohol in the blood is 1 to 2100. All breath testing devices depend on this assumption. The fact is that, the machine is designed such that it produce a reading based on that assumption; the accuracy of the reading is directly connected to the accuracy of the presumption.
Variation in Actual Ratio from person to person
Yet, there is a variation in the actual ratio in any given individual.
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Sen. John Kerry’s Daughter Will not Be Prosecuted for DUI »
Los Angeles prosecutors told that on Monday that Alexandra Kerry is off the hook in her DUI case and there won’t be having any criminal charges.
Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan in Los Angeles City said that they had reviewed the arrest report and have declined to file criminal charges due to lack of evidence.
Sen. John Kerry’s spokesman said that Alexandra Kerry was pulled over in Hollywood on Nov.19 for an expired registration and there the officers conducted a DUI investigation but Alexandra’s test results were under the legal limit.
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New Technology to Fight DUI in Pennsylvania »
Although law enforcement forces are very much successful in catching those who drive under the influence of drug or alcohol in Pennsylvania. Although DUI detection tools are not much available. The Lycoming County DUI Task Force has introduced a new device to catch DUI cases. 
A new device called Pupillometer is being introduced that enable an officer to check a PA DUI suspect for impairment from a written page. This handy device is helpful in finding out the cause for DUI investigation. The device work by scanning the pupils and compare it to a database having more than 3 million images of the drug user. A Drug Recognition Expert certified officer can operate the device well.
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Habitual DUI Conviction Leads to Year in Jail »
On Thursday, a Kahului man was sentenced to a one-year jail term and ordered not to drive for five years for his fourth drunken-driving conviction in 10 years.
Neal Suda, 48,has also been placed on five years’ probation and he was ordered to pay $1,419 in fines and fees by the court.
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Truth, Justice…and DUI Politics »
It is known by any experienced criminal attorney that when dealing with a drunk driving offense truth, justice and fairness can be rare commodities in our courts. This thing has has become such a common phenomena that now a label has been acquired by it and that is: "The DUI exception to the Constitution". When it comes to cases that involves driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, it looks like there is a distinct bias in favor of "streamlining" procedures and facilitating convictions.
It might be suggested by the cynics that this may have something to do with political considerations with the desire of some judges to get reelected. We will discuss that about that in a moment….. Right now, let’s take a look at an example of what kind of thinking goes on in a DUI case in the judicial mind. In fact, let us take example from the highest court of the most populated state in the country: the Supreme Court of California.
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How do I know the blood they tested was mine? »
Let me tell you about a case that I have handled. I had a young client, I’ll call him "John", who had been arrested for drunk driving by the Los Angeles Police Department and they had drawn a blood sample from his arm. He repeatedly told me that he was innocent, and I believed him.
Problem: The sample that was drawn from his arm had the blood alcohol content of .15% which is almost twice the drunk driving limit.
Now what?
At that time I obtained a portion of the sample from the LAPD crime lab and then I sent it to a private lab that I use for reanalyzing blood of all my DUI clients. It waqs reported by the lab that the blood alcohol level was .13% though it was lower, but it was still much higher than to be under .08%. As I requested them so they also tested for preservative and anticoagulant (either fermentation or coagulation can raise the alcohol level in the sample), but they found everything in order. John still insisted that he was not driving under the influence of alcohol.
The only other possibility in this case was a faulty "chain of custody". Explaining this in other words, LAPD lab got the vial mixed up and someone else’s blood was tested by them. So I had the sample blood-typed to find out if it was that of another arrestee.
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Woman Hits Bicyclist, Accused of DUI »
As said by authorities, On Saturday an Oakland woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI after she had a collision with a bicyclist and as a result of this collision a bicyclist in Fairfield was injured.
After that April Rooks, 19, was booked into Solano County Jail.
It has been said by police that Rooks had just turned onto Kidder Avenue from East Travis Boulevard around 9 a.m. when she lost her control over her 1991 Ford Mustang and then she struck a curb.
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Two Men Hurt in DUI Rollover Crash »
Mason Pedotto, 26, has been charged by the police with driving under the influence of alcohol. He was driving the car too fast, when he struck a curb, he lost control on the vehicle and rolled over several times on Palmer Park Boulevard, a block west of Union Boulevard. The accident occurred on Friday around 1:45 a.m.
One of the passenger Daniel Vanderhoef, 29, was ejected from the vehicle, and it has been told by the police that he was not wearing a seat belt. Pedotto crawled from the wreckage and called for help.
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