There is another article about the ancillary costs of getting convicted of a DUI at MSN Money Central. You may have seen my earlier blogs here and here on this issue. Apparently, the word is getting out that a DUI is no longer a traffic ticket that a
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The Overland Park Police, in conjuntion with other agencies, ran a DUI checklane on April 18, 2008. 466 vehicles were stopped and 11 people were arrested for DUI. That is about 2.4%. That means 455 vehicles were stopped and delayed for no reason. Int
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Here is a somwhat funny video addressing what a DUI will cost, at least as far as the state of Texas goes. The numbers aren’t far off from Kansas, though, if you lose. I blogged about this before recently. Suffice it to say, a Kansas DUI convic
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A bill being discussed this week in the Kansas legislature would mandate that persons convicted of a 4th time DUI in Kansas be sent to a special DUI prison for 18 MONTHS! If they are good they might be able to get out after 12 months. Holy moly. As I
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This disturbing story from Tampa, Florida is typical of the hysteria surrounding DUI cases these days. A man was driving himself to the walk-in doctor’s clinic because he was so ill with pneumonia. On the way there he was stopped by law enforce
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The Overland Park , Kansas, Police Department is planning a DUI Saturation Patrol on Friday, March 14, 2008. I guess it is that time of year again. I am sure there will be many checklanes to follow. However, a saturation patrol means that there will
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According to this New York Times article, more than 1 in every 100 Americans is incarcerated in either a state prison or local jail. This is the highest rate of incarceration in US history and the highest rate of incarceration in the western world. F
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