A new DUI breath testing machine for Washington State?
July 5th, 2010
A new DUI breath testing machine for Washington State? Washington State is slowly moving forward with plans to deploy new DUI breath testing machines. The state has already purchased a number of machines, the Draeger 9510, and is in the process of te…
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Snohomish County DUI Emphasis Patrols "Night of a Thousand Stars"
December 13th, 2009
December 11, 2009 was the evening of the annual “Night of a Thousand Stars” kickoff in Snohomish County. The name derives from the badges worn by the reported nearly 1,000 DUI officers who patrolled throughout Washington state on this dat…
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Seattle DUI due to "Drug Dumping?"
September 26th, 2009
A Washington State DUI arrest almost always involves alcohol. Although the legal consequences of a DUI in Seattle and elsewhere in Washington State are fully discussed elsewhere on our blog and within our firm website, recent research has revealed a…
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Forced blood from DUI arrestee results in lawsuit.
September 5th, 2009
WLWT-TV reports that a Lawrenceburg, Indiana man has filed a lawsuit against the police asserting that police forcibly drew blood and urine from his body during a drunk driving arrest. According to the report, a 53-year-old man was arrested on suspic…
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DUI probation violation = 30 days jail?
August 21st, 2009
Washington State DUI probation carries stiff penalties for violations.
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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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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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Washington State DUI Law: Is Your Car Talking to the Police?
June 30th, 2009
Washington State DUI law currently includes a little-known provision that turns your car into a four-wheeled police agent, ready and willing to notify the police when it senses that a DUI probation violation may have occurred. Recall that in several…
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Hard-hitting penalties for violating Washington state DUI probation.
June 27th, 2009
The word is out that the punishment for Washington state DUI laws is among the toughest in the nation. However, what is not well known is that the mandatory minimum confinement penalty for a single violation of DUI probation is harsher than the manda…
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