Drunk driving across state lines = Two DUIs
August 20th, 2009
The Washington State Supreme Court issued an opinion on August 20, 2009, regarding a driver who drove drunk from Washington State into Oregon and was convicted of DUI in both states based upon this single act of driving. (State v. Rivera-Santos, 8144…
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"Hard" license suspension for Seattle DUI?
August 12th, 2009
A “hard” license suspension is a license suspension for which there is no driving of any sort allowed. By way of background, under the 2009 amendments to Washington state’s DUI laws, a driver whose license is suspended for an alcoho…
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Failing a DUI Field Sobriety Test but not drunk
August 8th, 2009
One of the “standardized” field sobriety tests routinely given in a Seattle DUI arrest is the “eye test” otherwise known as the test for Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus. In this test, the DUI arresting officer looks for “bounc…
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Seafair 2009 Boating Under the Influence Emphasis Patrols Slated
July 31st, 2009
As has happened every year recently at Seafair, the Washington State Patrol is joining with other law enforcement agencies to aggressively enforce Washington state’s Boating Under the Influence (BUI) law. These agencies will be making arrests o…
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Seattle DUI Alcohol Evaluation Explained
July 29th, 2009
A conviction for DUI arising out of a Seattle DUI arrest or a DUI arrest anywhere in Washington State will result in the court ordering the accused to obtain an alcohol evaluation. The purpose of the evaluation is to determine whether an alcohol prob…
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Washington State DUI arrests by the numbers
July 24th, 2009
The Washington State Patrol DUI section has released a report analyzing statistics for DUI arrests occurring in 2008. The statistics were compiled from the database aggregated from data kept on the BAC Verifier DataMaster breath testing machines loca…
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Punched Hole in License Violates Due Process?
July 17th, 2009
Whether it is a Seattle DUI arrest or a DUI arrest anywhere in Washington State, it will include the DUI officer punching a hole in your driver’s license if your breath test is over the legal limit, or if you refuse to take the test. Washington Sta…
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Seattle DUI Arrest - Portable Breath Test Discussed
July 11th, 2009
If you are stopped on suspicion of DUI by a Seattle DUI police officer or a Washington State Patrol DUI Trooper you will probably be asked to submit to field sobriety tests and then you will be asked to submit to a test of your breath on the “porta…
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DUI Breath Test - How you Blow Determines Guilt?
July 7th, 2009
Washington State’s DUI law includes a “per se” law with a DUI “legal limit” of .08. The breath test protocol used in Seattle and Washington State DUI arrests requires that the accused provide two separate breath samples.…
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Washington State DUI Arrests Compared
July 5th, 2009
Most Washington state DUI arrests are not felony DUI arrests. As discussed in a previous felony DUI article, a Seattle DUI or a DUI anywhere in Washington State can be charged as a felony if certain predicate facts exist, such as a prior conviction f…
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