Everyone should be aware by now that it is not only alcohol that can cause you to be charged with a DUI. Everything from prescription drugs to cannabis can land you in jail for a night to be followed up by costly and perhaps lengthy court proceedings.A recent "Drug DUI" in California saw an individual receive a sentence of 10 years for accidentally killing a...

Alcohol can not only get you a DUI when abused, it can also do a lot of other nasty things to your body. Alcohol is composed of small methanol molecules, 20% of which don't even get metabolized and go right into the bloodstream. This is also why "chugging" is a really bad idea. It basically overloads your system by putting too much in, too quickly....

Your window tint may be cause for you to be stopped by a patrol officer. If in the course of that stop, he believes and/or finds that you are intoxicated you will be charged with a DUI.There have been a few cases recently where the defense argued that since their clients' window tint wasn't actually illegal, the stop for the tint resulting in the DUI...

A case in Washington state gave defense attorneys access to the source code of the Alcotest 9510 breathalyzer - the industry standard. The device is made by the German company Draeger and evaluates the BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) of breath based on two sensors. One is an infrared beam that measures how much light goes through a breath sample and the other is a fuel...

f you are a licensed professional, such as a doctor, dentist or engineer, being convicted of a DUI can bring with it disastrous career consequences. Such was the case for a Texas neurosurgeon.Dr. Patrick Rhoten was driving his Tesla "to work" when he crashed it into a grove of trees. When police arrived on the scene they suspected intoxication. Dr. Rhoten failed his field sobriety...