This Friday night, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will be conducting a DUI inspection of vehicles (Jacksonville DUI Checkpoint). Jacksonville First Coast News reports that “the safety checkpoint will last for four hours in the 7000 block of Powers Avenue — between University and Old Kings — Friday night starting at…
The Florida Fifth District Court of Appeals heard a Florida DUI appeal and ruled that the stop of the driver was valid. In State v. Gentry, 36 Fla. L. Weekly D534a (Fla. 5th DCA March 10, 2011), the trial court granted the Florida DUI defendant’s motion to suppress evidence that…
In Atlantic Beach, Florida, a local bar manager was hit by a van. Kathleen Bryson Lamb died two days later at Shands Jacksonville hospital. After the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic homicide investigation, they determined that the car accident was related to alcohol. As an Atlantic Beach DUI (Driving…
Under Florida law, you cannot seal or expunge an arrest record if you have been convicted of a crime. With a Jacksonville Driving Under the Influence (DUI) arrest, if you plead guilty or no contest to DUI, this will result in a conviction. Florida Law does not allow the court…
Ponte Vedra Beach DUI Checkpoints must pass certain constitutional standards. In Florida, two major cases govern the constitutionality of DUI checkpoints: Campbell v. State, 679 So. 2d 1168 (Fla. 1996) and State v Jones, 483 so. 2d 433 (Fla. 1986). The police officers conducting the DUI roadblock must have written…
The Florida Second District Court of Appeals reversed a case in 2008, because the Florida DUI checkpoint did not have sufficient guidelines. In Guy v. State, 993 So. 2d 77 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2008), the police department set forth a plan for a DUI checkpoint. The plan states that every vehicle…
On January 7, 2011, the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeals released its opinion in State v. Murray and Brink (36 Fla. L. Weekly D88b). In this Florida Driving Under the Influence (DUI) case, Murray and Bring, the DUI Defendants, were street racing and were involved in a crash that…
Look at your Ponte Vedra Florida drivers license and read the fine print: “Operation of a motor vehicle constitutes consent to any sobriety test required by law.” In essence, the Florida Implied Consent Law states that when a person accepts the privilege of operating a vehicle in Florida, he or…
In St. Augustine Florida DUI Cases, police officers look for indicators of impairment. They are looking for certain phyical symptoms that they believe show that a driver is impaired by drugs or alcoholic beverages. The most commom symptoms that they look for are: blood-shot, watery eyes; a flushed faced; an…
Police Officers in St. Augustine, Florida received calls from concerned persons regarding a woman named Renee Birchall. As the St. Augustine Beach Police Department was in the process of searching for Ms. Birchall, one of the police officer’s vehicles was rear-ended. Police were suprised to discover that Ms. Birchall was…