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 [...]

Last week, the NJ Supreme Court held that an NJ DWI – DUI traffic stop was legal under the United States and the New Jersey Constitutions in State v. Amelio. On December 11, 2005, a father and his daughter were having some kind of domestic fight, which resulted in the daughter calling the police. The [...]

Last week a New Jersey driver actually won his DWI-DUI appeal in the NJ Appellate Division. This defendant was charged with DWI-DUI in NJ along with a slew of other related NJ traffic violations after a single vehicle NJ car accident. This defendant was convicted of the DWI-DWI charge in both the NJ Municipal Court [...]

New Jersey personal injury law states that if you are convicted of DUI (driving under the influence) you are prohibited from recovering in an NJ personal injury lawsuit for third party, underinsured motorist, or uninsured motorist claims. While in NJ Municipal Court for a DWI-DUI (drunk driving) charge, a defendant can request a Civil Reservation [...]

We are currently creating a new website exclusively dedicated to Bucks County DUI – DAI- drunk driving. The address for new website will be www.buckscountyduilawyers.com. We hope to have the new website up and running by the end of July 2008.

As many people suspected there are several unresolved issues regarding the final State v. Chun NJ Alcotest decision. The NJ State Bar Association has recently requested that the NJ Supreme Court re-appoint Special Master, Michael Patrick King to help with unresolved Alcotest issues and help manage the multitude of cases that are subject to the [...]

In a recent case brought before the United States Supreme Court, a man was charged under the Armed Career Criminal Act which imposes a special mandatory 15-year prison term upon a person who unlawfully possesses a firearm and who has three or more prior convictions for committing certain drug crimes or a violent felony.  After [...]

Every 39 minutes and nearly 40 times a day, someone in the United States dies in an impaired driving-related crash.  In 2006 alone, more than 13,000 people died in impaired driving-related highway crashes and hundreds of thousands more were injured, according to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.  NHTSA also estimates that about [...]

A recent unpublished New Jersey DWI case appears to have removed the Constitutional “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard. The New Jersey Lawyer newspaper reported the case of State v. Beckman. According to the case brief, the NJ DWI Defendant was convicted in the local NJ Municipal Court. The Defendant then appealed to the Law Division [...]

The presiding judge of the NJ Appellate Division set forth a letter of instructions last week to NJ Municipal Courts on how to address the backlog of NJ DWI cases previously on hold. First, the court staff must create a list of all NJ DWI cases that have been “stayed” no later than April 12, [...]

First of all, I am not a scientist, nor claim to be one. Therefore, I am not in a position to argue most of the scientific points of the Opinion. Neither was I present during the arguments to learn about the science. I am not sure whether the 2100 to 1 blood-to-breath sample ratio is [...]

Please find attached a copy of the NJ Supreme Court’s opinion in State v. Chun.   I have not had the chance to review that opinion in detail yet.  I will comment on the opinion soon. State v. Chun: State v. Chun.pdf

In Pennsylvania, the DUI-DWI-DAI (drunk driving) law provides for the possibility of house arrest for first, second, and third PA DUI-DWI-DAI offenders. House arrest is never automatic. It is only an option when the PA DUI-DWI-DAI defendant proves that he or she is an eligible candidate. Usually most people who have been charged with a [...]

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court established new law regarding the confrontation clause of the United States Constitution.  This is an expansion of the Crawford case handed down in 2004. The High Court ruled that the Crawford (right to confront a witness) issue may be able to be applied retroactively.   This is particularly important in [...]

The courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky are now faced with the same problem regarding the source code of the DUI-DWI breath testing machines. This is a legal issue new to many states. Until recently, no one has really reviewed or challenged the “computer programs” that run these breath test machines. It seems that the [...]

Law enforcement in New Jersey is now questioning individuals who are suspected of drunk driving (DUI-DWI) as to: Where they were drinking alcohol? How many alcoholic drinks they had? and What kind of drinks they had? A 2007 NJ Attorney General Law Enforcement Directive mandates that New Jersey police ask these questions after they have [...]

“Fans don’t let fans drive drunk” is what PennDOT and police departments are hoping people will remember this weekend as they gather to watch the Super Bowl. People who drink and drive can expect to see a police officer in the rearview mirror, as police across Pennsylvania join the national crackdown on impaired driving now [...]

The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the matter of State v. Jane Chun (Are alcotest instruments scientifically reliable for establishing blood alcohol levels in prosecutions under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50?) in the Supreme Court courtroom on the 8th floor of the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, Market St., Trenton, at 10 a.m. on [...]