Pennsylvania Police are Using Alcohol Detecting Flashlights to Identify Drunk Drivers in State College As if we needed more untested, unscientific, inaccurate DUI technology, police in PA have been using DUI flashlights to detect drunk drivers: Alcohol-Detecting Flashlights Introduced in State College DUI Enforcement High-tech flashlights that can help police identify drunk drivers have arrived…
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Philly DUI Breathalyzer Scandal is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Recently, it was found that incorrectly calibrated and faulty DUI breath testing machines could effect thousands of DUI cases in Philadelphia. I was recently interviewed about the DUI breath test problem in Philadelphia by The Inquirer (philly.com). As a PA DUI attorney someone who has studied breath testing thoroughly, I have found that the Philadelphia…
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Increasing Penalties for DUI in PA
Many states around the country are pushing for tougher DUI laws in the upcoming legislative session. There have been debates about this in the Pennsylvania legislator as well. Many times passing tougher penalties for criminal offenses is easy for lawmakers because many voters support stricter consequences for criminal offenses. This stems from the incorrect belief…
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Pennsylvania State Police Violate Our Rights While Fishing for DUI
As a Pennsylvania DUI Lawyer and resident of this great state, just like everyone else, I too wish there were no DUI drivers on Pennsylvania roadways. In my opinion, better education and training for Pennsylvania state and local police is the key to saving lives. As it stands, the training police officers receive on drunk…
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Pennsylvania is Letting Criminals Walk
One popular "solution" to the DUI problem is to toughen the laws and make harsher penalties. Here in Pennsylvania, that still wouldn’t work because of shoddy police work. All it will do is lead to more truly factually or legally not guilty citizens among us being convicted and punished. Here is an investigation from last…
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Record Number of Pennsylvania DUI Arrests: A lot of Unanswered Questions
A recent report from The Republican-Herald: Pa. State Police make record number of DUI arrests HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pennsylvania State Police say they made a record number of DUI arrests last year while the number of alcohol-related fatalities dropped more than 10 percent. Commissioner Frank Pawlowski says troopers made 16,900 DUI arrests in 2009, a 4…
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DUI Hypocrisy: Guilty Before Being Proven Innocent
Drunk driving is a serious problem in Pennsylvania and across the country. Like most of us, I also wish that people would not make the choice of getting behind the wheel while they are drunk. To battle this, many people are willing to adopt “any means necessary” to eliminate the DUI problem. However, sometimes these…
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Media Bias When Covering Pennsylvania DUI
I have often lamented that DUI is one of the most politically charged crimes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. There are a number of lobbies like MADD and the PA DUI Association that exert inordinate amounts of pressure on politicians to enact stricter Pennsylvania DUI Laws. In my opinion, as Pennsylvania’s first and only national Board…
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Pennsylvania DUI Roadblocks
It is Thanksgiving. I am most thankful for our laws and the constitutions (both federal and state). Thanksgiving time always highlights to me how far away we may have gotten from our constitutions. Maybe because I am a Pennsylvania DUI Attorney and I do what I do every day I think in these terms. However, with…
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Pennsylvania DUI Attorney talks about the DUI Statistics Game
It is that time of the year again in Harrisburg and all of Pennsylvania where we celebrate Thanksgiving by setting up roadblocks and by doing so to allow the Government to quasi-invade and violate our personal liberties and freedoms by stopping us along our lawful way. It seems that Pennsylvania DUI roadblocks are being announced…
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