Things were already rocky between you and your spouse, before you got arrested for driving under the influence in Long Beach. Now things are worse. What can you do? First of all, you need to address the realities of your arrest and all the legal implications. According to California Vehicle…
Your Pasadena DUI arrest has caused you to rethink a lot of your fundamental ideas about yourself, your future, your relationships, and your ability to succeed in general. Whether the DUI caused serious bodily injury to someone, or whether it was “just” a misdemeanor charge that landed you in jail…
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…
If you got stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Pasadena, hopefully you had a better excuse than 50-year-old Steve Gosa, of Buford, Georgia. According to local reports from the Gwinnett County Police, Gosa awoke in the middle of the night on April 15 with a hankering for Waffle House. He…
Even a first time Beverly Hills DUI misdemeanor conviction can lead to substantial jail time, hundreds of dollars in fees, required installation of an IID device in your vehicle, and mandatory alcohol classes. Your insurance rates may also go up precipitously. (Imagine if you had to pay $2,000 or $3,000…
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…
If you’re a multimillion dollar entrepreneur, who can afford a 2010 Porsche Panamera, you’d probably be able to handle a Los Angeles DUI arrest with a fair amount of grace. Right? Not necessarily. Being rich, famous and well-connected does not inoculate you from behaving like a raving toddler. When those…
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…
As our regular Glendale DUI blog readers know, the system by which DUI suspects get pulled over, investigated, arrested, and prosecuted is – shall we say – less than perfect. We all collectively assume that the situation isn’t “that” out of control. Sure, perhaps breathalyzer tests aren’t perfectly calibrated. Perhaps…