My good friend and National College for DUI Defense, Inc. colleague Jay Ruane of Connecticut is hosting a DUI/OUI seminar this Friday, December 4, 2009 entitled: "Defending OUI cases in CT Training & Seminar". It will be held at the Legislative Office Building – Hearing Room 2C in Hartford, CT It is presented by the Division…
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Pennsylvania DUI hypocrisy-BAC worse than being impaired
I just got off the phone with someone from Harrisburg who was accused of a Harrisburg DUI. They were wondering why they were charged with two counts of DUI. It is a question I get a lot. There are two theories of criminal liability that the Government can advance under when they charge someone with…
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Get a Pennsylvania DUI and lose your wife? Not far fetched. Florida Prosecutor marries DUI Defendant’s ex-wife
In the category of it always could be worse, I have found THE DUI case that if the newspaper accounts are true, really takes the cake. The story comes out of the St. Petersburg Times and was written by Curtis Krueger. The article is entitled "Prosecutor in DUI case marries the suspect’s ex" (Imagine being…
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Pennsylvania DUI Roadblocks
It is Thanksgiving. I am most thankful for our laws and the constitutions (both federal and state). Thanksgiving time always highlights to me how far away we may have gotten from our constitutions. Maybe because I am a Pennsylvania DUI Attorney and I do what I do every day I think in these terms. However, with…
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What to Expect if You’re expecting a DUI: Omnibus Pretrial Motion
We have been examining the steps in the process that a good Pennsylvania DUI Attorney would take in professionally and aggressively handling a Pennsylvania DUI. The next step you can expect to face is the preparing and filing of the Omnibus Pretrial Motion. In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this must be filed within 30 days…
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Pennsylvania DUI Attorney talks about the DUI Statistics Game
It is that time of the year again in Harrisburg and all of Pennsylvania where we celebrate Thanksgiving by setting up roadblocks and by doing so to allow the Government to quasi-invade and violate our personal liberties and freedoms by stopping us along our lawful way. It seems that Pennsylvania DUI roadblocks are being announced…
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Pennsylvania DUI Attorney has the video that will forever prove that SFSTs are not valid
As a Pennsylvania DUI Attorney, I get asked a lot of questions when I meet people socially. I was just at the Harrisburg International Airport where my flight was delayed and I struck up a conversation with another modern day refugee who was now stranded with me as we cycled through what seemed like endless 15 minute…
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Pennsylvania DUI Attorney Stands Up with New Zealand DUI Barrister who is Forced to Take Down his Website
I make no bones about the fact that I am a Pennsylvania DUI Attorney. In fact I am proud of it. Very proud it. I am proud of the fact that I use forensic science to represent the citizen among us who is accused of a DUI. I advertise it. I blog about it. I believe that what…
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Gas Chromatography and why is it is so important to Pennsylvania DUI arrests
First off what is Chromatography? Chromatography is strictly and simply speaking "separation science". It is the study of how an analyst can take a complex matrix (compound) and separate it out into its component parts. It is a relatively "new" form of analytical chemistry in that the first true use of modern chromatography is usually…
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What to Expect if You’re Expecting… a DUI: The Discovery Phase
The Discovery Phase In my experience of representing thousands of DUI cases in Pennsylvania, I have found the discovery phase to be where the case is won or lost. An informal request for discovery must be made within 14 days after the formal arraignment. In many Pennsylvania counties, judges are not very particular about enforcing…
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