DUI News Digest

A Wilmington bankruptcy lawyer has received one year of low-level probation for a September drunk driving crash in Hockessin that left the other driver with neck, rib and facial fractures, bleeding on the brain, a collapsed lung and other serious injuries. Read More »

Veteran Atlanta news anchor Amanda Davis was arrested in Cobb County and charged with driving under the influence early Monday — the same day she was scheduled to make her return to local airwaves. Read More »

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Two Fresno County families were torn apart in a single day in the same fashion, in crashes miles apart. Two drivers on prescription drugs are accused of killing three people. Read More »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —A man was arrested on suspicion of DUI in a multi-vehicle crash early Friday morning on Interstate 5 in Sacramento that killed one person and sent three people to the hospital, officers said. Read More »

Law enforcement DUI investigation techniques depend largely upon the fictitious premise that all humans are physiologically identical. Without that presumption, field sobriety and breath alcohol tests would not be possible. There are, of course, many examples of physiological differences — from person to person and within one person from moment to moment — which will directly alter breath or blood alcohol testing in DUI investigations. A few examples are diabetes, GERD (acid reflux), anemia — even sex and race create ... Read More »

We all make mistakes, but how could a Shelby County, Tennessee (think Memphis, Tennessee) sheriff’s deputy be in uniform and drive his police motorcycle while under the influence?  Either the defendant officer or the arresting officer made a big mistake. Read More »

JANESVILLE, Wis. – A Janesville woman is accused of her tenth drunken driving offense after police say she was too intoxicated to perform a field sobriety test. Read More »

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (WABC) — A Holbrook man was arrested on Long Island for DWI after police chased him Friday night. According to Suffolk County Police Department, Jordan Levent was driving a BMW and failed to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk at North Ocean Avenue and Main Street in Patchogue around 11:55 p.m. Read More »

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was arrested Monday on suspicion of drunken driving after a Santa Fe restaurant’s security complained about a possibly intoxicated driver. The 71-year-old Shepard told a police officer that he had two tequila drinks and was planning to drive home, Santa Fe police Lt. Andrea Dobyns said Tuesday. Read More »

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) — An employee of the state is answering charges of drunk driving and more following an early Tuesday morning arrest. Police say they were conducting a routine check of Beaver Island State Park when they saw a vehicle driving around after hours at 1 a.m. Police stopped the vehicle, and say the driver identified himself as Andrew Hillman, 40, the parks manager of the park. Read More »