The Civil Rights of Alcoholism
Over the years we have heard many attempts to explain DUI arrests. Excuses ranging from faulty testing equipment to over application of mouthwash. In some of these cases the defense held up, no matter how outlandish and unlikely it may have seemed. Howeve...
April Fools
On July 2nd 2016 Cesar Gomez was allegedly driving under the influence when his Volkswagon Jetta struck a passenger vehicle going 80 miles an hour. The 80 year old driver was killed on impact. The passengers, a 12 year old girl and expecting mother surv...
Breathalyzer Source Code Creates Accuracy Dispute
A decade ago officials in Washington State began to look at replacements for their increasingly obsolete breathalyzer models. The sole company to bid for the contract was Draeger, a German medical technology company. Predictably they won the contract and ...
Vince Vaughn nabbed at DUI checkpoint
Another day, another celebrity in trouble for allegedly driving under the influence. This time it’s Hollywood funnyman Vince Vaughn posing for a mugshot after being arrested at a DUI checkpoint. The 48 year old actor was stopped at a routine checkpo...
Drinking and Driving
Most of the time when you hear about a DUI charge, it involves an incident where a motorist has been found to be driving after having become intoxicated. Earle Stevens Jr. of Indiana River County in Florida had a different idea. He was nabbed after having...
Dram Shop Act cited in Berman Crash
Last month celebrity ESPN anchor Chris Berman received the heartbreaking news that his wife had died following a car accident that involved alcohol. Her BAC was recorded at .26, which is more than three time the legal limit in the state of Connecticut. Sh...
TKO by DUI
UFC Hall of Famer Stephen Bonnar found out the hard way last week that sometimes the hardest hits you take come out of the ring. He was arrested last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was pulled over at 1:15 am after being clocked at over 90 miles an hour. It...
J-E-T-S…..D-U-I
The NY Jets are having a rough season, but not as rough as superfan Christopher Graylock is about to have things following the Jets 41-10 loss against the Buffalo Bills this weekend. He was arrested after rear-ending a vehicle on Route 23 in New Jersey f...