In an effort to ensure that DWI repeat offenders get into treatment as quickly as possible, the Jefferson County Circuit Court has agreed to include DWI court screening as a condition of their bond. At the court en banc meeting June 13, Jefferson County Assistant Prosecutor Rebecca Grosser said that sometimes it takes as long as six months before a potential candidate for DWI court enters the program.
One by one, clients of DWI court stood before Boone County Circuit Judge Christine Carpenter. Her words and the tone of her voice at times sounded more like a mother, a sister or a friend. Carpenter
Three people accused of drunken driving are trying to exploit a one-year window during which they say a state law enhancing DWI punishments was unconstitutional. Drunken drivers face stiffer penalties for repeat offenses. But in March 2008, the Missouri Supreme Court held in Turner v. State that, because of conflicting provisions in state statute, a DWI conviction in a municipal court that resulted in a suspended imposition of sentence couldn't be used to enhance their punishments.
Driving sober may no longer be a surefire defense against a DWI charge in New Jersey. In a jury trial that might be the first of its kind in the state, Bergen County prosecutors recently obtained a conviction against a man who was accused of driving with a "cocaine hangover" when he caused an accident that seriously injured a Little Falls woman. He could receive up to five years in prison when he is sentenced today.
CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. With his voice cracking and hands shaking, former NHL player Matthew Barnaby apologized for his bad decisions after pleading guilty to four violations connected to a drunken- driving arrest that got him fired from ESPN. Im going to do my best, take the proper measures to make sure this does not happen again, Barnaby said Tuesday evening, following an hour-long appearance in the town court in Clarence in suburban Buffalo. I take full responsibility for everything that Ive done. Barnaby then took a deep breath before issuing a vow to do better. I promise my kids, my family, my friends. I promise Ill make them proud, this community proud, he said, as his eyes welled with tears while making a brief statement to reporters outside the courthouse. Thats all, he said, be...
Three unrelated cases of felony driving while intoxicated were heard in Niagara County Court on Tuesday, and pleas were accepted in two of them. Michael D. McKenna, 39, of Sunnyside Drive in Niagara Falls -- a man with a history of DWI charges, including two prior arrests and two current cases -- pleaded guilty to felony driving while intoxicated, the most serious charge in the two current cases. He remains in county jail without bail as he awaits sentencing Dec. 2.
In Minnesota, police who pull over suspected drunken drivers may order their blood drawn without a warrant, but go south into Iowa or now Missouri, and they can't.That's the kind of division that the U.S. Supreme Court might agree to resolve. That's the hope for Cape Girardeau Prosecutor Morley Swingle, who said he will appeal a unanimous state Supreme Court decision last week that a warrantless blood draw taken without consent in a DWI case violated the Fourth Amendment because there were no "special facts" to justify it.
Chavez faces 18-month sentence if convicted of 11th DWI charge By Geoff Grammer
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