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Checkpoint Strikeforce is a zero-tolerance program designed to arrest individuals driving impaired. Sobriety checkpoints through this program are taking place in 5 states including, Virginia, Washington DC, Delaware, West Virginia, and Maryland. You may have seen some of the advertising campaign for Checkpoint Strikeforce. Their campaign consists of TV commercials with the motto “over the [...]
Obviously not “step up” like Step Up 3 (but if you aren’t traveling this weekend, maybe you should go see that in 3D) though 75% of Virginia State Police troopers will be on patrol statewide. Virginia experienced a sharp rise in traffic deaths over Labor Day weekend last year, with 14 deaths during the 4-day [...]
We know that field sobriety tests can be administered improperly, and that in some cases, it’s possible to get chemical tests thrown out, but that can require in-depth experience on behalf of your attorney. For some, it just got a lot easier. Since fall 2008, almost 400 people have been convicted of driving while intoxicated [...]
Oregon State Police arrested an 18-year-old teenager after Marion County sheriffs found him unconscious in a Ford Mustang parked on the shoulder of a highway. We know that it’s possible to be convicted of DUI/DWI charges even if the car is not in motion, but that issue wasn’t the biggest of 18-year-old Nikita N. Efimov’s [...]
“But I wasn’t driving, the car was just running and I was sitting in it.” A popular excuse, but not always valid or accepted. We may refer to the charge as driving while under the influence, but Virginia law actually states you may not operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated. What does operating entail? It [...]
According to a recent University of California at San Diego study, more and more fatal car accidents in the United States are caused by young women driving while intoxicated. According to colloquial wisdom, young male drivers are most prone to drink and drive in the US. Dr. Virginia W. Tsai and her colleagues decided to [...]
