People pulled over for Los Angeles DUI often do absurd things – sometimes comically absurd. A breaking report out of Marion County, Florida illustrates just the lengths to which certain people will go to try to stay out of trouble. A 65-year-old grandmother, Elsie Wright O’Conner, got pulled over in…
An exclusive report issued last week by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) about the efficacy of bans on texting-while-driving may have powerful implications for Los Angeles DUI policy. The HLDI study examined rates of accidents in Louisiana, Washington, Minnesota, and California both prior to and after the implementation of…
While celebrity Los Angeles DUI cases get the lion’s share of the headlines (for examples see: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Chris Klien, etc), sports stars who drive DUI have been making the news a lot recently. The Baltimore Ravens’ Assistant Coach, Andy Moeller, is one of the latest…
Last Tuesday, an emotionally charged Southern California DUI trial got underway in Fullerton. The defendant, Angel Herrera Leal, stands accused of perpetrating a horrific fatal DUI accident on an Anaheim freeway. According to news and police reports, in the early morning hours of December 27, 2008, Leal – who had…
Celebutante Paris Hilton’s 2006 Los Angeles DUI made headlines around the globe. The billionaire heiress was sentenced to 45 days behind bars for violating her probation, and she served her jail time on June 3, 2007 – just after she finished attending the MTV Movie Awards. Her subsequent release on…
Many articles about Los Angeles DUI tell you how to avoid getting into dangerous driving situations, how to handle the police at the scene, and even how to draft an effective legal contest to your charges. But very few resources out there tell you what to do — how to…
Driving under the influence in Southern California is — in and of itself — an extremely dangerous and perhaps even deadly thing to do. But a Mill Valley man by the name of Scott Lindner has been arrested not only for Southern California DUI but also for allegedly assaulting a…
Actor Mel Gibson’s 2006 Los Angeles DUI arrest may have been the most notorious celebrity DUI arrest in history. The Australian actor allegedly went off on an anti-Semitic rant at the Malibu police station when he was brought in, and this tirade fueled weeks of media coverage. On August 16,…
Mary Delgado, a former contestant on the TV show The Bachelor, was arrested in Tampa on August 12th for DUI, after police pulled her over for having a broken headlight. Southern California DUI blogs and celebrity gossip sites immediately went to work speculating on Delgado’s situation. The 42-year-old former cheerleader…
Last week, two former operators of a Miami Clinic pled guilty in Federal Court to multiple counts of submitting false claims, committing fraud, and paying kickbacks, prompting a wide ranging discussion among Southern California medical fraud policy wonks. Jose Nogueira and his brother Rolando Nogueira operated a clinic for AIDS…