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The importance of a DUI Lawyer doing the Widmark calculation and questioning assumptions.

It’s important to know how to do a widmark calculation manually. By doing this, you will know where they expert will be and what the prosecutor will ask. The most common calculations are number of drinks and what will a person alcohol level be with this amount of drinks, time, weight, etc, and the retro…

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Can the police hold my car after a DUI arrest?

It happens hundreds of times every day throughout this country, someone is arrested for a DUI.  But what happens to the car?  In many instances the police will leave the car parked in the same spot where you were pulled over and simply lock the keys inside the car.  In other instances, the police will…

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What Does “Using” A Cell Phone While Driving Mean? Examining CVC 23123 and CVC 23123.5

Technology grows at an exponential pace. The phone you’re using to view this article is probably more advanced than the computers California legislators were using to draft statutes regulating cell phone use on the road. When your elected representatives first passed SB 1613 and SB 28, mobile communications devices were still in its pre-Darwinian stages…

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You Don’t Need To Signal When Other Vehicles Aren’t Around VC 22107

We’ve all been told to use the appropriate signal when making a turn or changing lanes. Signaling always seemed to be absolute. However maybe from apathy, laziness, or a desire to throw a middle finger to the law, we refused to make that signal at one point in our lives.  Specifically, you might have been…

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WTF is the “Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus”?

It’s not a distant planet. It’s not a Kama Sutra move. It’s a DUI field sobriety test. And it’s coming to hipster parties near you. The Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus is one of many field sobriety tests given by law enforcement to determine whether you are under the influence of alcohol. “Nystagmus” means a jerking of…