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The winter holidays are rough on many people. About 20 percent of Georgians struggle with severe seasonal affective disorder or the winder blues, a slightly less serious condition. Many people count on the bottle to get them to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So, it’s not surprising that alcohol consumption increases about 25 percent during …
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 …
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 …
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Rome) claims that, once again, a fraudster reported a false crime and summoned the police to her Floyd County home. Swatting is the act of making a hoax 911 call to draw an unnecessary law enforcement response. Using technology that makes it appear that the emergency call is coming from a …
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 …
