Dallas DWI Lawyer Blog

I wanted to write about a very concerning trend in municipal courts.  Over the past few months I have had several clients faced with alarming situations.  The typical situation is as follows:  you get arreseted for a class C offense whether that be assualt, drug paraphernalia, or dui; you go in front of a municipal […]

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Bloggers Note:  Ok I admit it.  This post has nothing to do with the law or drunk driving.  However, the novels that are part of the series “a story of ice and fire” by George R.R. Martin are excellent.  The novels are gripping, and full of suspense.  The characters are almost all fundementally flawed, and just when you think you know […]

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Federally-supported research by professors at the University of Chicago and Harvard indicate that the most effective way to decrease overall auto fatalities is to punish the “relatively small fraction of hard-core drunk drivers.” Although the punishments don’t reduce the numbers of drunk drivers, those who are drunk drive more carefully and have fewer accidents.
Using an […]

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Legislators in Illinois are preparing to consider a new law to lower the maximum legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) for driving from .08 down to .06.
Almost one-half of all fatally injured drinking drivers have a BAC of .20 or over. That’s three and one-third times higher than the proposed maximum BAC. Supporters insist that the […]

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Posted by Erica Ogg
Is having a cell phone pressed to your ear while behind the wheel the equivalent of driving while intoxicated? According to a study by University of Utah psychologists, the answer is, unfortunately, yes.
“Just like you put yourself and other people at risk when you drive drunk, you put yourself and others at […]

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