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While most in the legal community have nothing but praise for tougher DUI laws, some judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys say Illinois' DUI laws are more confusing. What used to be a few paragraphs has evolved into several pages of different scenarios with hundreds of potential sentences.
But others believe the laws are needed to keep judges from being lenient.
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Iowa (The following laws take effect July 1.) If you are a: - Driver, you could face higher fines for traffic violations. - Veteran working for a business with more than 50 employees, your insurance plan must cover mental health and substance abuse treatment. - Cancer patient, you'll get a speedier answer from your insurance company on whether you can participate in a clinical trial. - Person who receives a genetic test to screen for potential diseases, you will have more privacy. The results must be kept private unless you give written consent for its release. In addition, your insurance company couldn't discriminate against you based on the results. - Hospital, you must notify police when a mental health patient with an arrest warrant is released from care. - Four-year-old, y...
...Craig Reber. illinois. (The following laws went into effect on Jan. 1.)....
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...See Taylor . v. Illinois, 484 U. S. 400, 410, n. 14 (1988) (ConfrontationCl...For instance, recent state laws allowing admissionof well-documented and suppor...
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Iowa (The following laws take effect July 1.) If you are a: - Driver, you could face higher fines for traffic violations. - Veteran working for a business with more than 50 employees, your insurance plan must cover mental health and substance abuse treatment. - Cancer patient, you'll get a speedier answer from your insurance company on whether you can participate in a clinical trial. - Person who receives a genetic test to screen for potential diseases, you will have more privacy. The results must be kept private unless you give written consent for its release. In addition, your insurance company couldn't discriminate against you based on the results. - Hospital, you must notify police when a mental health patient with an arrest warrant is released from care. - Four-year-old, y...
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... New Mexico's, and today 11 states have these laws. Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York and T...In Illinois, researchers found drivers using the devices were ...
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Illinois has seen a historic drop in traffic fatalities under the leadership of Gov. ([Rod Blagojevich]) Blagojevich - to levels we haven't seen since 1924," said Milton Sees, secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation. "But, with more than 45 percent of our state's traffic fatalities involving alcohol, we know we need to continue aggressively attacking the problem of drunk drivers. Increased enforcement is a way to save more lives.
"He was coming home from work after doing some overtime around 2 a.m. A drunk driver tried to pass a car up by going around it and ended up hitting my husband's car head on," she recalled. "The bad part about the accident is the driver had been convicted three years ago for DUI."
"It is a top priority of mine to use the resources of my office t...
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...Olefsky, M.D. (Respondent), of Chicago, Illinois. The Show Cause Order proposed the denial of Respo...Federal, State or local laws--the ALJ first noted that Respondent testified ``i...
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...Illinois, 446 U. S. 222 . However, the District Court reas... that are commonplace in state criminal laws, do not change the penalty imposed for the earlier...
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If you got arrested in Illinois for drunken driving 30 years ago, you had a good chance of getting away with it.
Not anymore.
... for having one of the nation's weakest laws for prosecuting drunken drivers. Winning a convict...
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... for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 08 C 1958--Suz... to arrest him for violation of other traffic laws. Id. The court explained that the probable cause a...