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 Penalties In Maine »
DUI drivers are required to concede breath, blood, or urine test for blood alcohol content if caught by police is called “implied consent laws”. Refusal carries penalties, which includes mandatory suspension of a driving license for up to a year.
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
If any driver in Maine will be having blood alcohol concentration above than 0.08 percent then he/she will measured as “per se intoxicated” under this law. According to this law that is all which is needed for a driver to be convicted for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI).
Zero Tolerance Blood Alcohol Concentration
All states “zero tolerance laws” mainly focus on the drivers not of legal drinking age. Drivers under the age of 21 if will be operating any motor vehicle with blood alcohol level 0.02 percent or above will be subject to DUI penalties in Maine.
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Top Ten Drunkest Cities In United States »
The list of top ten drunkest cities in America has been released. This list is compiled by various available DUI/DWI statistics, alcohol related car accidents, and breath rates from alcoholic live disease.
In the top ten, California and Arizona cities are cracked to top. Number one city on list is Fresno, California. California is having several cities in top ten list. But in the list there is no city of northeast states which are having trouble with alcohol.
Here is the list of top ten drunkest cities in United States:
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Fresno, California
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Reno, Nevada
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Billings, Montana
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Riverside, California Click here to read more »
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Nas, the Rapper, Charged with DUI In Georgia »
In September Nas was apparently arrested for a DUI charge and was then later released.
Charged with DUI in September
In September Nas, the rapper whose real name is Nasir Jones, was riding with his brother in Georgia.
He was pulled over after police spotted his Cadillac Escalade truck driving erratically on the interstate.
Police smelled marijuana from inside the vehicle
Police smelled marijuana from inside the vehicle during the routine stop, and then they have asked Nas to step out of the vehicle.
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Breathalyzers: Why Aren’t They Warranted to Measure Alcohol? »
If you are facing drunk driving charges, then you must have taken (unless that you refuse) a chemical test for checking a blood alcohol concentration (BAC). It has been noted that the test will be done with a breath machine in the great majority of cases. When you face the trial in a court then you will come to know that you have been charged with not just one, but with two crimes.
First Charge:
The first crime with which you have been charged is the so-called "per se" offense: driving while having a BAC of .08% or greater. It doesn’t matter and no one actually cares whether you were intoxicated or not. It would be proved by all of the evidence that without question you were sober: your condition is not the crime, instead of that the crime is your chemical composition. And what is the sole source of evidence used by the police officers upon which you will be either convicted or acquitted? Just a machine.
Second Charge:
The second charge that you have to face is "driving under the influence of alcohol" ("DUI"), or in some states, it is referred to as "driving while intoxicated" ("DWI") or "operating under the influence" ("OUI"). All of them are basically the same thing. However in each case, it can be proved by the prosecution that you were under the influence of alcohol by offering the results of the same breath test into evidence and the jury will be instructed that it should be refutably believed that the defendant is guilty unless he can prove otherwise.
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DUI Arrests: Surge in DUI Arrest Among Women »
It is a happening of a recent Friday night in Lowell, Mass., just outside Boston, the state police were out there to look out any drunken drivers.
Officers regularly stop drivers and ask them that have they drunk tonight. They also ask some drivers to take sobriety tests; they have also arrested some of those drivers for Driving Under the Influence of alcohol.
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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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