As someone who has been recently stopped and arrested for Burbank DUI at a checkpoint (or elsewhere), your mind is obviously focused on your urgent situation and not on national news involvements. But you should try to understand the context of your arrest on a broader level, since that context…
The act of driving under the influence in Glendale (or wherever) is a fundamentally dangerous and potentially destructive act. It’s often the tip of a more disturbing iceberg. But DUI defendants are a diverse lot. Some suspects just make simple “dumb” errors of judgment and wind up sitting in the…
Our Beverly Hills DUI blog has catalogued numerous instances of “golf cart DUI.” At first blush, this crime sounds funny – like something out of a Caddyshack outtake. But it can actually be a quite dangerous situation. Consider, for instance, a recent scary case out of Charlotte County, Florida, where…
You just got arrested for DUI in Long Beach. You’re not happy about it. But you’re brave enough to acknowledge the difficulty of your reality. Although you fear going to jail, losing your license, paying thousands of dollars in court costs and fees, and having to attend alcohol classes for…
Stories about celebrity DUIs in Los Angeles typically focus on the drivers who wreak havoc, hurt people, or say or do dumb things at checkpoints. But that’s not always the case. Consider the fascinating DUI arrest of CAA agent, Jim Toth, husband of actress Reese Witherspoon. On April 19th (as…
Perhaps you wrote off your first DUI in Burbank as “bad luck” or “bad karma” or whatever. But now that you’re facing your second charge, you’re deeply worried that prosecutors will not take kindly to the recidivism. You are right to fear that. The Southern California justice system does not…
Was your Los Angeles DUI this bad? After consuming 15 beers, 28-year-old Kile Wygle, of Newark, Ohio, hopped onto a motorized bar stool that he had made himself out of a deconstructed lawnmower. Unsurprisingly, he crashed. Wygle’s friend called 911 and told police “I got a friend who wrecked a…
Imagine getting arrested for driving under the influence in Pasadena three times within ten years. You know what happened to you if that occurred? Prosecutors could throw the book at you. In fact, punishments for “just” a misdemeanor DUI can be pretty astonishingly diverse: • a year’s suspension of your…
In this Los Angeles DUI blog’s last homage to Funny Or Die’s October 5, 2010 article, “The 6 Weirdest DUI Arrests Ever Made,” we’re going to take a look at two more crazy cases and extract general lessons from them. Weird DUI #5: Russian soldier, under the influence, smashes a…
Getting caught for driving DUI in Los Angeles is no fun. But it is somewhat amusing – or at least educational – to read about “weird DUI stories.” Here are two more stories culled from a Funny or Die article (“the Six Weirdest DUI Arrests Ever Made,” published October 5,…