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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

A Washington State DUI might be a felony or a misdemeanor, depending upon several factors. How to tell? 1. In which court is the case pending? If your case is already pending in court, then the answer is determined by the type of court where the case… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More