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19 Oct

Affluenza drunk driving case back in the news

Arizona residents likely remember a 2013 drunk driving case that created a media frenzy when attorneys defending a Texas teen claimed that their client suffered from affluenza and should not be jailed for causing an ac...

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1 Sep

What Arizona college students need to know about DUIs this fall

As college students head back to Arizona campuses this fall, it is important to remember that DUI enforcement often increases around the Labor Day weekend. Students should strongly consider the use of a sober driver, t...

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18 Jun

Arizona is toughest state in nation on DUI

The Grand Canyon State has been slowly, surely, steadily toughening its drunken driving laws over time. Year after year and law after law, the desired goal has finally been attained: Arizona is now the state with the t...

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4 Jun

Magic flier?

It's almost like magic, its proponents claim. You simply drive up to a DUI checkpoint, holding a flier from FairDUI.org to your window, along with your driver's license, and police wave you through and on your way. Tha...

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27 May

Memorial Day DUI arrests down around Arizona

"I think people are getting the message," a spokesperson with the Governor's Office of Highway Safety said recently. The message: if you are arrested for DUI in Arizona, you face harsh penalties. Yes, people are undou...

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11 May

Arizona Cinco de Mayo DUI arrests: Up or down in 2015?

Cinco de Mayo was celebrated a few days ago here in Phoenix, across the nation and south of the border. It's a holiday commemorating El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (The Day of the Battle of Puebla). As some readers un...

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14 Apr

DUI, child endangerment charges could have multiplying effect

We read recently of a 25-year-old woman who finds herself today in deep legal trouble. She was arrested in Mesa on a recent afternoon after she reportedly hit a stopped car with her vehicle. A man inside the stopped ...

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9 Apr

What is Arizona’s “aggravated DUI” offense?

Here in the Phoenix area, there is not a day that goes by without someone being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. In fact, it is inevitable that a few are charged in the course of any day of the year...

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13 Mar

Saturation weekend in Phoenix, around Valley

A river of green beer will wash down the gullets of shamrock-festooned revelers this weekend in Phoenix. But beware: the luck of the Irish will do you little good if police officers believe you are drinking and driving...

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11 Mar

Arizona State University working on tomorrow’s DUI app

Today, when a Phoenix driver is pulled over and suspected by the police officer of drunken driving, he or she can expect to be asked to perform a variety of field sobriety tests. The tests can help the officer decide i...

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5 Mar

Playing on the super extreme team?

Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Sir Charles Barkley (a former Phoenix Suns player), Patrick Ewing and John Stockton. The list of basketball greats who played on 1992's Dream Team was breathta...

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28 Feb

Arizona Supreme Court hearing DUI evidence case

Eleven drivers are linked together in a case currently before the Arizona Supreme Court. Each one was pulled over by police officers and arrested for DUI. Each one had a blood sample taken and then sent to the Scottsda...

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16 Jan

MADD gives Arizona 5-star DUI rating

Like a gushing movie reviewer, or a president solemnly decorating a general’s starched uniform, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers also bestows stars for excellence. In the case of MADD, the stars are awarded to states fo...

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13 Jan

Arizona DUI arrests down last year

The good news is that in 2014, Arizona DUI arrests dropped for the third year in a row. The bad news is that despite the drop, more than 28,000 people were arrested for drunk driving in the state. The DUI record was s...

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29 Dec

A DUI is no way to start a new year

Parties will soon be launched across Scottsdale County to celebrate the end of one year and start of another. Of course, there are parties and celebrations on every night of the year, but New Year’s Eve might be the ...

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