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Cost of losing your license can be greater than you know
Driving is a privilege not a right. That’s a message that gets highlighted in very stark ways when someone is accused and convicted in Tennessee of driving under the influence. And as we’ve noted before on this blog, it doesn’t matter if the allegation involves drinking alcohol, using illegal drugs or taking over-the-counter medication. A
DUI stop becomes legal ‘perfect storm’ for Mt. Juliet man
The definition of perfect usually suggests something positive. Perfection is something to strive for, but in the context of the phrase “The Perfect Storm,” nothing could be further from the norm. Especially since the release of the movie of that title in 2000, what the idiom has come to describe a convergence of events that
Should I heed results if I self-test for blood alcohol?
As we have said on previous occasions on this blog, there can be a lot of things that can be wrong with a breath test for blood alcohol content. If the device hasn’t been properly calibrated, it can deliver BAC results that may deserve to be questioned. The officer who administers the test might do it
TN high court further refines line-crossing test for DUI stops
Driving around Chattanooga is not like riding around in a confined bumper car track. While such an environment might reduce the number of injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents, there is no way to create the infrastructure needed to make it work. Instead, we have pavement and lanes. Sometimes the lanes aren’t marked. Very often
Legal second chances not impossible, but not easy
Most of the major religions have something of an escape clause in the arrangements they have with their followers. For example, in the Catholic tradition, if you commit an infraction of the Ten Commandments, there is a means to have such sins absolved through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The idea behind this out for wrongdoing
It doesn’t take much to hit 0.02 BAC and spark a teen DWI
Underage drinking is illegal in Tennessee. So is underage drinking and driving. The reason there are laws on the books that specifically address these issues is because we all know that there are instances when violations happen. Police in Chattanooga and elsewhere across the state have a lot of incentive to bring charges and obtain
Rare body brewing condition leads to dropped DUI charge
The more we learn about the human body, the more apparent it is that we really don’t know as much as we think we do. While space is hailed as the final frontier, there are some who might argue that there’s still a lot to discover in our own internal workings. For example, our medical
Warrantless blood alcohol tests face constitutional challenge
Every state has some form of implied consent law on the books. These are laws that say that anyone applying for and receiving a driver’s license agrees to submit to a blood alcohol content (BAC) test when requested by police. In Tennessee, if an officer claims to have reasonable suspicion of driver impairment and asks
Warrantless DUI testing to get Supreme Court review
Tennessee law currently presumes that if you get arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and are asked by authorities to take one of various types of blood alcohol tests, you must comply. If you refuse, you could face serious consequences for violating the implied consent law. And, according to the statute, authorities are
After shelving sexist anti-DUI campaign, TN making new effort
Sometimes it’s not what you say that’s a problem. It’s how you say it. Take the efforts of government to curb driving under the influence. No one would argue that the state of Tennessee shouldn’t be trying to reduce incidents of drunk driving and the subsequent accidents that result in injury and death. But earlier