Call us today for help! 770-627-5936
The unofficial last weekend of summer usually means baseball, hot dogs, and enhanced DUI enforcement. Admittedly, we got this post up too late to discuss the multiple jail release options following a DUI checkpoint stop. But cases usually take several weeks or months to wind their way through the pre-filing process and arrive in criminal …
You may have heard “if you’ve been drinkin’ then suck on Lincoln.” This Breathalyzer trick is partially true. Copper reacts with ethanol and skews Breathalyzer results. Back in the day, a penny was mostly copper, so until the 80s or even the 90s, this trick often worked. But in 1982, the U.S. mint changed the …
Most jurors assume the DUI FSTs are scientifically reliable. But such assumptions are often wrong. Indeed, a closer examination of the NHTSA-approved three-test battery reveals some significant flaws. The FSTs are vital in all DUI cases. Officers use poor FST performance as an excuse to demand chemical samples. If the defendant refuses to provide that …
The difference between a strong DUI case and a weak case could be over $20,000. That’s the average cost of a Georgia DUI. Most of these expenses are indirect costs, such as higher auto insurance rates. Convicted drunk drivers must buy-high risk insurance for at least three years. An SR-22 could cost two or three …
Few details were available after an allegedly intoxicated driver lost control of his pickup and swerved into the path of an oncoming SUV, killing a former Emerson mayor and his wife. The wreck happened in Cherokee County. Albert Pallone was the mayor of Emerson, a city of about 1,400 people in neighboring Bartow County northwest …
Party hosts should have rides home on standby, and require guests to use them, if they use the Supreme Court’s unofficial eggnog. The recipe was buried in the papers of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, who served in that capacity between 1941 and 1946. A sudden brain hemorrhage unexpectedly killed Stone, who was the first …
