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Vehicular Homicide, a fifteen year felony, can be based on reckless driving even if you beat the DUI
Friday, 11 August 2006
Guilty plea in fatal crash
By Amanda Kramer

The man accused of driving drunk and killing a teenager in a car crash in November was sentenced to serve eight years in prison after pleading guilty to the charges this week. Carroll County Superior Court Judge Dennis Blackmon ordered Stanley Keith Benton, 29, of Newnan to serve eight years in prison followed by seven years on probation in the death of Charles Joshua Story, 19, in 2005.

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Another politician pleads guilty
Friday, 11 August 2006

It would be best for the City [revenue] not to spotlight the weaknesses and apparent absurdity of the Georgia DUI laws and the junk science underlying them

Peachtree City manager pleads guilty to golf cart DUI
Thu, 08/10/2006 - 4:30pm
By: John Munford

Gets 24 hours in jail, $800 fine, license suspension; can seek work permit to drive

Peachtree City Manager Bernie McMullen pled guilty Thursday morning to charges stemming from his DUI arrest June 2 while operating a golf cart in the parking lot of the city’s amphitheater.

McMullen pled guilty to DUI and possession of an open container of alcohol. He was sentenced to spend 24 hours in jail as required by Georgia law, an $800 fine, a year’s probation, 40 hours of community service and several other conditions such as a ban on alcohol consumption with random drug and alcohol screening.

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If the Judge is too just, get rid of him.
Wednesday, 02 August 2006

D.A. must remove judge from all DUI cases

By PHIL STRICKLAND - For The Californian

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Why do off-duty police officers refuse the breath test?
Sunday, 23 July 2006

It is very hard to prove a "less safe" dui because the per se limit is ridiculously low:

Officer charged with DUI refused breathalyzer
Courtesy of news-journalonline.com: July 22, 2006

By JIM HAUG Staff Writer PORT ORANGE -- Several local police officers charged with drunken driving in recent years share something else in common, as well. They all refused to take a breathalyzer, thus depriving prosecutors of a blood-alcohol reading that could be used against them in court."If you have been drinking, refusing the breathalyzer is the only way to go," said Brian Toung, a Daytona Beach defense lawyer.

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What if the human body could produce alcohol?
Sunday, 23 July 2006

Endogenous or Auto Brewery Syndrome as a result of intestinal disorders

Candidiasis is a yeast infection which plagues the intestine when good bacteria are killed as a result of long term use of antibotics. Some candidiasis sufferers will feel, and appear to be, intoxicated. An unsual symptom of certain people with severe candidiasis is the presence of alcohol in the blood stream even when none has been consumed. First discovered in Japan, and called "drunk disease," this condition creates strains of candida albicans which turn acetaldehyde (which is the chemical created by sugar and yeast fermentation) into ethanol. This is a process well understood by distillers of homemade brew. These candidiasis patients whose yeast turns sugar into alcohol are chronically drunk. They have developed what is only half-jokingly called "auto-brewery syndrome".

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How does the Intox 5000 work? Nobody knows...
Sunday, 23 July 2006

...except that wizard in Kentucky and he won’t tell!

State appeals court decision in breathalyzer case 
07/23/06
courtesy of sun-herald.com

(Florida) — The state is appealing a recent plaintiff’s victory in the controversial breathalyzer cases.

“The appeal goes to the district court (Second District Court of Appeal) instead of local circuit court,” plaintiff’s attorney Robert Harrison said. “The district court of appeal gets first bite, but they do not have to take it.”

Harrison said the usual procedure is for an appeal to a county court decision to be bumped up to the circuit courts.

“But if you have hot issue, an issue of great public importance,” Harrison said, “they can bypass the first level and go right to the district.”

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You don’t have to be rich or famous to beat a DUI
Thursday, 20 July 2006

McCready Beats DUI Rap
by Natalie Finn
Jul 19, 2006, 4:55 PM PT
courtesy of http://www.Eonline.com

Mindy McCready won’t be staying the night in jail–and she’s got some new song fodder to boot.

The oft-troubled country singer was found not guilty Wednesday of a DUI charge stemming from a May 2005 arrest, although a Nashville jury did convict her of driving with a suspended license.

McCready, 30, was pulled over last spring for speeding and refused to take a breath test after police smelled alcohol. Kenneth Dixon, the arresting officer, testified Monday that the “If I Don’t Stay the Night” artist had been wobbly on her feet and that her eyes were watery and bloodshot that night.

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They really mean DUI is murder on our roads
Wednesday, 19 July 2006

NBC10.com: Man Charged With Murder for Alleged DUI Fatal Crash
July 18, 2006 8:26 am EDT

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man involved in a fatal two-car crash while he was allegedly driving under the influence is facing a murder charge.Police said they have charged James McClinton, 22, with murder, involuntary manslaughter, driving under the influence, aggravated assault and related offenses.Police said McClinton ran a red light and collided with a Honda Accord, killing the driver....

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Was he drunk, impaired or a less safe driver? A good case study.
Sunday, 16 July 2006
Defense raps DUI probe

Bonner County Daily Bee - Sandpoint,ID,USA
Friday, Jul 14, 2006 - 09:56:46 am PDT

By KEITH KINNAIRD, News editor

SANDPOINT -- The investigation into a lethal vehicle crash near Garfield Bay two years ago went on trial on Wednesday.

Defense attorney Doug Phelps stepped up his shelling of the case against Dustin Paul Trevino, calling into question just about every aspect of the vehicular manslaughter and drunken-driving investigation.Phelps called an expert defense witness who testified Bonner County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Deal improperly administered field sobriety tests. Phelps also argued the scene where the agility tests were conducted was awash in chaos, with ambulances driving up and down the road and even a rogue motorist who drove through the middle of the scene without any lights on, coming close to where Trevino and Deal were standing.
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Tough on Crime ‘cept when I got mine in Gwinnett County
Friday, 14 July 2006

DUI becomes campaign issue in solicitor race

07/13/2006 — Jonathon Aurelia says his opponent in the solicitor race, Rosanna Szabo, is soft on crime. But Szabo says she finds that an odd argument coming from a man who has a record of driving under the influence.

Aurelia was arrested in June of 1994, when he was 19, for driving while intoxicated, according to records. He pleaded nolo contendre, or no contest, to the top charge and a charge of minor in possession of alcohol was dropped, the records show.

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