POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Perdue campaign manager charged with DUI

Gov. Sonny Perdue’s campaign manager, 24-year-old Nick Ayers, was arrested in Atlanta this week and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and failure to maintain his lane.
According to the the Georgia State Patrol: On Wednesday, a few minutes before 11 p.m., a trooper spotted Ayers driving […]

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue proclaims
May 2006
DRUG AND DUI COURT MONTH

WHEREAS: Drug and DUI courts combine judicial accountability and evidencebased
treatment to effectively intervene against substance abuse
and related crime; and
WHEREAS: Results of more than 100 program evaluations and at least three
experimental studies have yielded definitive evidence that drug and
DUI Courts increase treatment retention and reduce […]

I was a juror in the DUI case held in state court last week. I am also the mother of four and very against drinking and driving. I know that this is murder on our streets and my children have been told time and again that they would be in the worst kind of trouble […]

Lawsuit claims drug killed DUI probationer
By Kim Smith
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
The family of a Tucson man who died while on probation has sued the state and the Pima County probation department, saying a court-ordered drug killed him.
According to court documents, Scott Paul Cody, 34, was placed on probation in May 2005 for driving under […]

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Tifton Police Officer Resigns After DUI
POSTED: 12:33 pm EDT October 5, 2006
TIFTON, Ga. — A Tifton police officer has resigned after being arrested for driving under the influence in his patrol car while on a training trip.Officer Chuck Synder was attending training in traffic accident investigation last week at the State Law Enforcement Training […]

 
Newnan DUI arrests soar From 139 arrests in 2003 to about 300 this year
Published 10/8/06 in The Times-Herald
By ELIZABETH RICHARDSON
erichardson@newnan.com
 
Last year, the Newnan Police Department set a goal to arrest 271 impaired drivers in 2006 — an increase of 10 percent from 2005.
In 2003, the police department was responsible for making 139 arrests involving drivers […]

October 03, 2006
Courtesy of the National Journal
Is Foley This Cycle’s
“DUI?”
In the final days of the 2000 WH race, Pres Bush was confronted with an unexpected revelation from his past. It was disclosed that in 1976 Bush had been pulled over and arrested for DUI. The news threw the otherwise well-oiled Bush campaign and, as described […]

There was a case in State Court last week that went before a jury trial where a man was charged with DUI and two counts of child endangerment with his children in the car, interfering with police and driving without a license. This person refused a breathalyzer and refused to cooperate with law enforcement officers […]

Lawyers see DUI report, grand jury differences
By Kim Smith
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Two local defense attorneys believe hundreds of felony drunken-driving cases could be dismissed because of the way they were presented to Pima County grand jurors.
Prosecutors disagreed with the estimates on affected cases.
Law partners James Nesci and Joe St. Louis recently discovered a handful […]