Certain holidays seem to “breed” Los Angeles DUI driving behavior. These include the big summer weekends – Memorial Day and Labor Day – as well as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, Cinco De Mayo and the 4th of July. Whether police busted you over Memorial Day weekend at a checkpoint…
Thirty eight-year-old Haitham Gamal died on April 29th in a Southern California DUI accident, according to the Orange County register. Gamal had literally just pled guilty to a 2013 DUI charge at the Orange County Superior Court the previous day. He was “on the road to recovery,” according to his…
For years, our Los Angeles DUI defense blog has reported on strange cases of DUI recidivists. These people — for one reason or another — keep getting arrested for DUI, despite harsh punishments, license suspensions, increasingly heavy fines, and so forth. To wit, consider the outlandish case of a Delaware…
What lessons do celebrities learn after getting arrested for DUI in Los Angeles? TV personality Chelsea Handler and actor Jason Priestley (of Beverly Hills 90210 fame) discussed their respective DUI arrests recently on Handler’s talk show, Chelsea Lately. Priestley got arrested in 1999, as a young actor. Handler also got…
Quick quiz: let’s say an officer stops you on suspicion of driving under the influence in Los Angeles and asks to see your license and registration. Should you: A) Give him or her your license and registration? B) Give him or her a receipt for a bottle of vodka that…
Most Los Angeles DUI stories that get serious play in the media are often tinged with irony somehow. For instance, as we covered several months ago, authorities recently stopped one unfortunate young man and busted him for DUI while he wore a t-shirt proclaiming that he was “Drunk As Sh*t.”…
Getting a DUI in Los Angeles – and announcing it to the world – is a lot like getting pregnant or going on a diet. Everyone seems to have tons of advice for you, even if they have never experienced the situation themselves. Think about all the ridiculous advice non-parents…
A competent, motivated Los Angeles DUI defense lawyer can do a lot to help you fight your charges and help you get your life back together. For instance, he or she can: • Contest evidence in your case; • Challenge the Constitutionality of your stop or arrest; • Nitpick (to…
Drivers arrested for DUI in Los Angeles (and elsewhere) often engage in bizarre actions that make them fodder for mockery in the blogosphere and, occasionally, the late night talk shows. To wit, consider a rather bizarre case out of Chicago, where 26-year-old Maria E. Segura was arrested for two DUI,…
As someone who’s been arrested for the crime of driving under the influence in Los Angeles, you’ve already spent a quite a lot of mental energy figuring out how you’re “going to deal with this” in a constructive fashion. You’ve potentially imagined worst case scenarios – i.e. massive jail sentences,…