A horse, it’s true. A Florida woman was arrested last month for riding a horse while lit up. Law enforcement found Donna Byrne slumped over her horse after witnesses called police and told them she was weaving and acting confused. When deputies measured her blood alcohol level, it registered .157 and .161. That’s double Florida’s […]
Tiger Woods pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of reckless driving in a West Palm Beach court yesterday. Woods, arrested in May and charged with DUI after being found passed out in his Mercedes on May 29 with prescription drugs and marijuana in his system, avoided jail time and will have to enter a diversion
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Tiger Woods’ mug shot after his DUI arrest in Jupiter, Florida says it all. There’s no question the photo shows impairment. Now whether the impairment is from alcohol or prescription medication doesn’t really matter in terms of the rules of the road and Florida statutes. Prescription narcotics come with warning labels about not operating machinery
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The Florida House had just wrapped up its third week in the 2017 session and state Rep. Cary Pigman was driving his Jeep with a license plate that reflects his House district, “H55,” back to his home district when a Florida Highway Patrol officer who’d been following Pigman noticed that he was driving erratically, weaving
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Jose Fernandez was already a superstar at the age of 24. A Cuban native who had made three unsuccessful attempts to defect to the United States before finally succeeding in 2008, the Cuban community in Miami embraced him as a folk hero. He could do no wrong. Until he did. This isn’t going to be
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DUI Diversion programs are in place in Orange and Osceola Counties so one could ask if Pinellas County could follow suit and offer a diversion program for certain DUI cases. In fact, the new Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren was asked about it recently and artfully dodged the question. Could this happen in Pinellas? It’s
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Orange County assistant public defender Derreck Quarles has been arrested for DUI on his birthday. This isn’t the first time and probably not the last time a public official gets arrested. However, the circumstances surrounding his arrest, police dashcam video evidence of the arrest, and the statements of Public Defender Robert Wesley are certainly some
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Police have been using dash cam videos for quite some time now. Police believe they are instrumental in demonstrating probable cause in a traffic stop as well as the ensuing encounter between the officer and those in the vehicle that’s been stopped. Yet, it’s not always that simple. A DUI stop in Clay County has
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Arrested for DUI? You think no big deal. Let me set you straight. I am going to tell you a story. Ever heard of Dak Prescott, starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys? He’s coming off a phenomenal rookie season and has been named to the Pro Bowl. His future couldn’t be brighter. He has all
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DUI checkpoints in fact are a violation of the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects us from unwarranted or arbitrary searches and seizures. The US Supreme Court acknowledged as much in Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz (1990). However, Chief Justice Rehnquist, writing for the majority, argued that the state interest
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