Perhaps police stopped you for DUI in Los Angeles at Wilshire and Rodeo, right after you closed a sweet deal with an international advertising client. Or maybe police arrested you at a checkpoint and hit you with your second DUI in 10 months. In either case, you’re in a bit…
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What’s the Appropriate Punishment for 5 Los Angeles DUI Convictions in Less Than a Year?
If you’ve received a Los Angeles DUI, take note of the following cautionary tale. Even though it took place thousands of miles away, it contains important lessons for defendants and their familes. In 2011, a driver named Joseph Lawless, who had been stopped for DUI driving four times prior in…
DUI Driver Fatally Strikes Motorized Bicyclist in Huntington Beach
Receiving a Los Angeles DUI can be a life-changing event, even if you hurt no one and avoid getting arrested on multiple charges. But the consequences become even more severe when the other party sustains serious or fatal injuries. A Huntington Beach motorist is now learning that lesson the hard…
Will Robot Drivers Solve the Problem of Los Angeles DUI?
The problem of Los Angeles DUI, on some level, seems intractable. After all, even if we collectively could reduce DUI incidences as low as possible, we’re never going to eliminate the problem completely. Even the very definition of the problem changes over time. How much marijuana do you have to…
Los Angeles DUI Arrests Can Have Long Term Consequences: Just Ask Cardinals Linebacker John Abraham
Police arrested you for DUI in Los Angeles last week or last month. In either case, you might be laboring under the assumption that you can quickly put the DUI behind you. Even if you didn’t hurt anybody, and you were just barely over the legal limit of 0.08%, you…
Los Angeles DUI Disasters: What Happens When Double-Decker Buses and Ambulances Crash?
Picture a “standard” Los Angeles DUI arrest in your mind’s eye. You might imagine a driver in a Honda Accord getting escorted into a squad car after a nasty wreck on the 405 or the 101. Or you might picture a Hollywood exec in a BMW stopped at a checkpoint…
The One Thing You Absolutely Must Know about Your Los Angeles DUI Charge
Your Los Angeles DUI charge has thrown your world way out of balance. For the first time, you probably feel oddly connected to Lindsay Lohan and Nick Nolte – you know how humiliating, frustrating and scary it can be to stand accused of violating California Vehicle Code Section 23152 (or…
Fatal Las Vegas Crash Results in Plea Deal for Exotic Dancer
Los Angeles DUIs often cause unintended and tragic consequences. Consider, for instance, a horrible recent Las Vegas collision that caused the death of a man and injuries to his 2-year-old son. On the morning of March 23, 2013, exotic dancer Shauna Miller left her job at the Spearmint Rhino strip…
Breaking Through the Inertia of Your Los Angeles DUI Case
You may be at the beginning of the end of the worst part of your Los Angeles DUI arrest. How so? After all, you feel downright miserable and scared about what’s happened to you, and you haven’t even found a lawyer yet. You have so much to do – and…
Justin Bieber in Court for DUI Charges
Few Los Angeles DUI drivers face charges as complex or extensive as Justin Bieber. The 20-year-old singer’s Florida court case began on Monday, July 7 for a litany of charges he received on January 23. Allegedly, Bieber had been drag racing with Khalil Amir Sharieff, a fellow performer, when authorities…