This week I have created the Bucks County DUI Lawyer Blog which can be found at: http://buckscountyduilawyers.blogspot.com/. I will be posting all future DUI/DWI law, news, and information on this new blog. For those who are familiar with our firm Saile & Saile LLP, we represent individuals charged with DUI in Bucks County and other [...]

Artie Lange of the Howard Stern Show was charged last Friday with driving while Intoxicated (DWI) as a result of a minor NJ car accident that he caused in Toms River, New Jersey. Today on the Stern show Artie claimed that he did not ingest any alcohol, nor had any illegal drugs in his system. [...]

The New Jersey DWI (driving while intoxicated) Ignition Interlock Bill that we wrote about in January of this year seems to have evolved. “Ricci’s Law” is still a Bill in the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee which is being recommended for passage to the legislature.   Under this law, all persons convicted of an NJ [...]

On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Philadelphia resident Donald Willis pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle (and other related Bucks County DUI charges) and was sentenced to 6 ½ to 13 years in a Pennsylvania state prison by Bucks County Judge Jeffrey Finley. Mr. Willis has a substantial record of criminal convictions but his most recent [...]

Bucks County DUI lawyer, Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq., recently posted a page full of information regarding the charge of refusal to take chemical testing in Pennsylvania after being stopped for DUI (Driving under the Influence). If you are legally stopped by a PA police officer and he or she believes that there is probable [...]

A Bristol Township resident is facing serious Pennsylvania criminal charges including four felonies after fleeing the scene of a fatal pedestrian car accident on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia resident was crossing West Erie Avenue at North 19th Street at 8:21 p.m. when he was struck by a car driven by Luciano [...]

On October 23, 2008, a three-car fatal Bucks County car accident occurred in Middletown Township, PA which killed one woman, Mary E. McHugh of Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania and seriously injured her husband, Joseph McHugh. Now, six months later, Bucks County police have charged the driver with DUI (driving under the influence) relating to the Bucks [...]

In April 2009, Pennsylvania State Police announced that in 2008 PA state troopers carried out more than 16,000 arrests for driving under the influence (DUI). This is a new record for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and marks a 3% increase in the number of PA DUI arrests made in 2007. State police officials cite education, [...]

There is a Bill pending in the New Jersey Legislature, which, if it were to become law, would require all drivers involved in an NJ car accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury of another person to undergo mandatory sobriety testing. If a person should refuse to take the mandated sobriety test, his or [...]

A Hillsborough, New Jersey woman recently won an NJ DWI Municipal Court appeal based upon a “sleep driving” defense. In September 2006, the NJ woman was arrested and charged with drunk driving (DWI). When arrested, the NJ DWI defendant was taking prescription medications Ambien and Seroquel, a sleep/insomnia medication and an antipsychotic medication respectively. At [...]

On an NJ DWI appeal from a ruling of the Lawrence Township, NJ Municipal Court, defense attorney, Robert Ramsey, convinced a Mercer County NJ Superior Court judge to exclude the breath test reading due to the Lawrence Township police officer’s failure to recall observing the NJ DWI defendant for the required 20-minute observation period before [...]

Be careful next year boys and girls! Valentine’s Day drunken driving patrols made throughout Lower Bucks by State Police led to 33 traffic stops. Pennsylvania State Troopers from the Trevose and Dublin barracks conducted a roving drunken driving DUI patrol on several Bucks County highways. The patrols were done from 11 p.m. on February 14 [...]

New Jersey Assemblymen Matthew Milam and Nelson Albano are sponsoring a Bill which would stiffen DWI- DUI penalties for individuals with repeat drunk driving (NJ DWI) convictions. The proposed Bill would make it nearly impossible to downgrade NJ DWI (driving while intoxicated) offenses that occur more than ten years after a person’s prior conviction. The [...]

The NJ Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Server Fair Liability Act, also known as the “NJ Dram Shop Act” is the exclusive civil remedy for NJ personal injury and damage of property from the negligent service of alcoholic beverages by a NJ licensed alcoholic beverage server. Under the NJ Dram Shop Act, a person who is personally [...]

Early on the morning of January 10, 2009, Vishalba Patel of Point Pleasant, NJ was pulled over for swerving at Philadelphia Avenue and the White Horse Pike by Egg Harbor City police five miles from a damaged mailbox on the 400 block of the White Horse Pike in Galloway Township. Parts of Mr. Patel’s black [...]

A committee of the NJ legislature is working on a Bill that would require DWI ignition interlocks on nearly all convicted NJ DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) defendants’ vehicles. DWI ignition locks have been a mandatory part of DWI sentencing for repeat offenders in New Jersey for many years, but this new Bill would also make [...]

In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 11, 2009, Matthew Tubertini of Camber Lane, Mount Laurel, NJ was involved in a one-car NJ car accident on Walton Avenue and charged by police with NJ DWI (Driving While Intoxicated). After being arrested and taken down to the Mount Laurel, NJ Police Headquarters, Tubertini was released [...]

On January 13, 2008, Michael Prince, of Evesham Township, Burlington County, New Jersey drove his vehicle onto the sidewalk at the Promenade at Sagemore shopping center, striking several tables, chairs, a sign and a parked car. Fortunately, there were no reports of personal injuries. Police charged Prince with NJ DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) and drug [...]

We invite you to have a look at our new webpage, Bucks County DUI Sobriety Checkpoints, located on our Bucks County DUI website at www.buckscountyduilawyers.com. Bucks County, Pennsylvania DUI sobriety checkpoints are not as random and spontaneous as you may think. Much analysis and evaluation goes into where and when police will set up sobriety [...]

On December 26, 2008, Chalfont, PA resident Kimberly A. Behrig was stopped by local Warwick police after being reported by a motorist who called 911 after witnessing Ms. Behrig’s vehicle driving into oncoming traffic on Almshouse Road, Bucks County. The witness believed Mr. Behrig to be driving under the influence. According to police, when Behrig [...]