Rhode Island DUI Lawyer

A debate arose recently in front of the State Supreme Court over whether new, harsher penalties for drivers who refuse Breathalyzer tests are valid of if they were actually made void when the governor signed a budget bill containing the law’s old language.
The new law, signed by the General Assembly in 2006, doubled the minimum […]

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A 2006 Rhode Island law that applies harsher penalties to drivers who refuse the Breathalyzer test was recently backed by the courts.   Before the law passed, an estimated 85% of drunken drivers refused the test.  However, the law doubled the license suspension of those who refused the test to 6 months and added prison time […]

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Operation Zero Tolerance, a police enforcement movement in Georgia, is a statewide effort to combat drivers under the influence of alcohol and drugs from June 20th through July 6th.  In Dalton, Georgia, the city’s Traffic Enforcement Unit, Situational Response Unit, and Patrol Unit will be performing concentrated patrols and random road checks at strategic locations […]

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Marcus Vick, a former football star, was recently arrested for DUI, driving on the wrong side of the road, reckless driving, eluding police, and driving with a suspended license.  After a bicycle police officer noticed Vick and the passenger in his vehicle having an apparent altercation, the police officer approached the car.  After asking to […]

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Recently, a lawyer denied a motion to overturn a man’s ninth DUI charge, instead choosing to sentence him to up to five years in prison.  Robert Kent Vandyke was arrested for driving under the influence in September.  He had recently completed his sentence for killing a woman while driving drunk.  For that crime of vehicular […]

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