An arrest for driving while intoxicated is stressful for a good reason. A conviction for a DWI can affect your job, particularly those who work in law enforcement. A recent case involving a Fort Worth police officer is an example of the serious consequences that law enforcement personnel can face...
Being involved in a crash that hurts or kills someone else is always horrible. But when you also face a DWI in connection with the accident, it can be terrifying. A recent crash in Dallas illustrated just how serious the consequences could be when a death, especially a police officer's death, is ...
Facing an arrest for a DWI can be one of the lowest points in your life. It's scary, stressful, and being arrested doesn't bring out the best in people. Moreover, if someone is under the influence of alcohol, they may act aggressively at a time when they normally wouldn't. Nonetheless, a recent c...
We hear a lot about DWIs, what happens after an arrest, and even the possible defenses. But what happens if you're facing multiple criminal charges along with your DWI. A recent story from the Texas Department of Public Safety gives us a glimpse into how more complicated DWI cases play out. In F...
A DWI can happen to anyone, even lawyers and judges. And sometimes, a DWI can happen even when you aren't even expecting it. A recent case from Montgomery County, Texas, is the perfect example. Police arrested Judge Mark Keough after a 7:30 am September 10, 2020, crash involving the judge and a d...
Any honest thought should alert one to the risk that a DWI conviction can make a mess of one's life. Yet when facing a crisis like a DWI charge, many of us cope by unduly minimizing the crisis's seriousness. And so we need a reminder of just how big of a mess a single DWI conviction can make of o...
Some people drive intoxicated, never getting caught. In other cases, police observe erratic driving or moving violations, stopping and detecting the drunk driver, resulting in a DWI charge. Other drunk drivers, driving alone, cause single-vehicle accidents, leading to investigation, detection, an...
You'd think an accident's severity, whether rolling a vehicle over, colliding with another vehicle at an intersection, going the wrong way down a one-way highway, or hitting a street sign, utility pole, or building, wouldn't matter to a DWI charge. Intoxicated driving should be intoxicated drivin...
Icy weather conditions obviously make driving worse. The driving hazards that an ice storm presents are greater in warmer regions like Houston, Austin, and Southeast Texas, where vehicles may lack the all-weather tires, drivers may lack the all-weather driving skills, and transportation departmen...
The Texas coast is a spring break hot spot! With warmer temperatures, beautiful beaches, and lots of fun, college kids from across the country head our way every March. But with college students heading to the area, police say they intend to be prepared. Corpus Christi police announced that they ...
Earlier this month, a woman's call to 911 after a hit-and-run crash led to a high-risk traffic stop. After the woman called emergency operators, a second person called 911 and told operators he would shoot the original caller if police approached his car. When police located him just south of Med...
This week, a Jefferson County court sentenced a Beaumont, Texas man to 18 years in prison after a July 4, 2018, drunk driving accident that killed a three-year-old boy and seriously injured his two-year-old sister. The children's family was returning home from an Independence Day firework show wh...
If you've been involved in an accident in Texas and had an open container of alcohol in your vehicle, you probably realized the seriousness of the matter. Even if no one is hurt, you can face charges of driving with an open container and will undoubtedly face investigation for driving while intox...
By now, we all know that drinking while intoxicated is dangerous. But we're human, and we all make mistakes. It can easily happen. Let's say you have a few glasses of wine with dinner when you're tired, and then the police pull you over for speeding on the way home. If you're facing a DWI charge ...
If you're facing a charge for driving while intoxicated that involved damage to public property, you're probably worried about the consequences of a driving while intoxicated (DWI) conviction. But you're probably also concerned about how the damage to city or state property can affect your chance...
The story of a recent fatal Austin motor-vehicle accident allegedly caused by an intoxicated driver is another sad one among many. The allegedly intoxicated driver ran a flashing red light, colliding with a vehicle driven by a hard-working recent immigrant whose seven children are now forever wit...
Police, firefighters, and emergency-medical technicians regularly respond to DWI motor-vehicle accidents, often bringing with them a fleet of emergency vehicles. Those first responders can occasionally suffer injury at the scene, and their vehicles may incur collision damage. The injury and damag...
Oddly, and sadly, intoxicated driving puts highway safety design to the test. Intoxicated drivers get into accidents because of impaired perception and slowed reaction times. The safer the highway design and its lighting, marking, and signage, the less likely an intoxicated driver will cause an a...
Most DWI arrests are pretty tame. A few are not. And when a DWI arrest goes bad, it can go really bad. One early 2021 story illustrates the point. The media report explains that the driver, a Dallas resident, allegedly fled after Grand Prairie police signaled the driver to stop. Police suspected...
The Pandemic's Impact. COVID-19 has affected the legal system just like everything else. Safety measures have delayed trials, the delays clogging courts and jails. The pandemic has also made potential hotspots and death traps out of jails, where virus-laden stale air can circulate among closely p...
The prior story of a veteran whom authorities deported after a second DWI but who finally won his legal readmission to the U.S. described the veteran's long and lonely road out of the U.S. Consider here the veteran's short road back. The story resumes with the deported veteran still working in C...
All that it took was years and years of plain old grit. So says the story of a U.S. Navy veteran whom federal immigration authorities deported after a second DWI but who in late 2020 finally won his legal readmission to the U.S. as a naturalized citizen. The story involves a man who entered the...
The report is that in early 2020 the Texas legislature will again consider legislation legalizing marijuana use. Last year, the governor signed legislation allowing Texas farmers to grow low-THC hemp, already legal for sale in Texas. The report indicates the legislature also last year included te...
The story of a Texas drunk driver allegedly streaming himself on Facebook Live must be another sign of our social-media times. Maybe in this twenty-first century it's not so surprising that someone would record questionable conduct live on social media. A 2017 report alleged nearly fifty separat...
The reports come one after another: DWI arrests of police officers and military members who one would think would know better. We tend to believe that those who enforce the law shouldn't be breaking the law. But law officers do suffer DWI arrest and charge. And when they do, they face special cha...
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