Researchers from Washington State made the news recently when it was revealed they have begun work to develop a breath test that will do for marijuana what existing devices have done for alcohol detection. The new device is aimed at helping police officers quickly and easily identify those drivers whose marijuana usage has resulted in impairment. Read More...

Have you been arrested for DWI because you failed the breath test? The good news is that there are potential defenses for a DWI, regardless of your breath test results. Your blood alcohol content or BAC reading may have been over the legal limit, but that does not necessarily mean that the numbers were accurate. Read More...

If you are arrested for DWI in Minnesota and the arresting officer serves you a notice of driver’s license revocation, the law states that you are entitled to request an civil judicial hearing before a Minnesota District Court judge within 30 days of being issued a notice of suspension or revocation and a 7-day temporary license. Read More...

Everyone has heard that getting a DWI can be expensive. Besides the court costs, fines, attorney’s fees, potential ignition interlock device charges, license reinstatement fees and other expenses, drivers face years of increased insurance rates. Though you may know that insurance rates can go up after a DWI conviction, few people understand specifics about how much this increase really is and how long it lasts. Read More...

Statistics reveal that more and more women are being arrested for drunk driving than ever before. Although a vast majority of drunk driving arrests involve men and the number of women who admit to drunk driving remains to be relatively consistent since the 1980s, the total number of women arrested for DWI has increased dramatically over the last three decades – accounting for almost one-quarter of drivers arrested. Read More...

The odds of being involved in a driving accident are higher during periods when more cars are on the road, such as rush hour and holidays. When the number of alcohol-impaired drivers on the road increases, however, then the odds of vehicular accidents skyrocket. Read More...

Thanks to a recent ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the controversial law enforcement practice known as “no refusal” DUI traffic stops may finally undergo some important changes. That’s because the state’s highest criminal court deemed the Texas law that authorizes police officers to conduct warrantless blood draws from suspected drunk drivers unconstitutional. Read More...

When it comes to a DWI arrest, an intuition or a hunch of a committed crime is not an acceptable reason for a traffic stop or arrest. Probable cause and reasonable suspicion are two terms commonly used in drunk driving incidents – sometimes interchangeably. Is there a difference between the two? Read More...

Minnesota DWI laws dictate that an officer must first have a reasonable suspicion of any criminal activity in order to merit a traffic stop. A hunch of criminal activity, for example, will not hold up in court. Before determining whether or not the DWI stop met the standard for reasonable suspicion, the court will first examine the quality and quantity of available information available to the officer at the time the stop was made. Common traffic offenses used to justify a traffic stop include reckless driving, speeding, failing to signal, weaving within a traffic lane, and crossing a centerline. Read More...

In the United States, driving while impaired or DWI is an extremely serious and dangerous problem as approximately four million adults drive drunk every year. Every single day, nearly 30 individuals die in motor vehicle crashes involving a driver impaired by alcohol – or roughly one death every 51 minutes. A total of 10,322 individuals were killed in 2012 due to alcohol-impaired accidents, accounting for 31 percent of all traffic-related fatalities in the country. Read More...