Tag Archives: Pennsylvania DUI News

Permalink to DUI Hypocrisy: Guilty Before Being Proven Innocent

DUI Hypocrisy: Guilty Before Being Proven Innocent

Drunk driving is a serious problem in Pennsylvania and across the country.  Like most of us, I also wish that people would not make the choice of getting behind the wheel while they are drunk.  To battle this, many people are willing to adopt "any means necessary" to eliminate the DUI problem.  However, sometimes these [...]

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Permalink to Media Bias When Covering Pennsylvania DUI

Media Bias When Covering Pennsylvania DUI

I have often lamented that DUI is one of the most politically charged crimes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  There are a number of lobbies like MADD and the PA DUI Association that exert inordinate amounts of pressure on politicians to enact stricter Pennsylvania DUI Laws.  In my opinion, as Pennsylvania’s first and only national Board [...]

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Permalink to Pennsylvania DUI Roadblocks

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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Permalink to Pennsylvania DUI Attorney talks about the DUI Statistics Game

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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Permalink to WellSpan is to be commended, but why people who have been convicted for decades of a DUI should be upset

WellSpan is to be commended, but why people who have been convicted for decades of a DUI should be upset

On Wednesday and Thursday of this past week, Rick Fulton of the Gettysburg Times, wrote reported that WellSpan hospital system in Central Pennsylvania will no longer support or offer to provide blood testing for Court use of Blood Alcohol Content testing (BAC). The BAC testing, of course, is so important in a DUI prosecution and [...]

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Permalink to Are the increasing number of DUI arrests due to better training or different priorities?  It’s all in the numbers.

Are the increasing number of DUI arrests due to better training or different priorities? It’s all in the numbers.

In today’s Patriot News, reporter Kira L. Schlechte penned a very well-written fact intensive article entitled "Troopers’ DUI push hits area hardest: The state police have made more arrests in this region than anywhere else. An advocate credits their training and dedication."  I would highly encourage anyone to read it. The thrust of the story [...]

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