“Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” is the slogan for Santa Barbara’s AVOID the 12 DUI enforcement campaign. This year officers and deputies will be aggressively looking for impaired drivers and will arrest anyone caught driving under the influence. There will be eight DUI/driver’s license checkpoints, 18 DUI saturation patrols, a multiagency DUI task force…
Field sobriety tests are NOT MANDATORY in California. Santa Barbara DUI lawyers are often asked this very question. In fact there is no state law that requires a suspected Santa Barbara drunk driver to submit to any field sobriety tests when stopped on suspicion of DUI. Santa Barbara Officers who stop you won’t tell you…
Recently I was asked why their license showed a DUI suspension when the case was dismissed after review of the DUI arrest report. Santa Barbara DUI lawyers know that a mere dismissal, even one based on an insufficiency of the evidence, will generally not rescind the Administrative Per Se Suspension order of the DMV. The…
Santa Barbara DUI Lawyers face this question frequently, and the key issue is impairment, much akin to DUI reckless driving and the penalties for a DUI with prescription medication are much the same. California Vehicle Code §23152(a) provides it is unlawful for any person who is under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug,…
Somewhere between half and three-fourths of drivers with a DUI suspension continue to drive with no license. Play it safe and find a DUI lawyer.
About half of all drunk driving accidents also involve speeding.
Using a cell phone while driving can be just as dangerous as driving under the influence. Unfortunately, it is harder to convict, which is why there aren’t as many Santa Barbara cell phone driving lawyers as there are Santa Barbara DUI lawyers. https://www.dui805.com
The breathalyzer analyzes your breath to determine the total amount of alcohol in your bloodstream. https://www.dui805.com
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In 1980, Candice Lightner founded vocal political group Mothers Against Drunk Driving. She later disowned the organization when it began to shift its focus away from combating only drunk driving and toward combating drinking in general. https://www.dui805.com/
DUI trial laws are also known as ‘per se’ laws, which is Latin for ‘by itself.’ This means that a high blood alcohol level is the only evidence a court needs to prove that you were driving under the influence.