CNBC ran an article recently concerning the true financial costs of a garden-variety DUI case. $20,000.00 was the estimate. From the article: “One drink too many puts you at risk for not only an arrest, but also for fees, fines and costs that c
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There is an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times about how most of the top colleges in the United States are inquiring as to whether a student has ever had contact with the law or been disciplined at their high school. Apparently, these days
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If you have received a DUI in Kansas or DWI in Missouri you should at least consider whether the use of alcohol or other substances has become a problem in your life. Certainly, the fact that a person receives a DUI charge does not, in and of itself,
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Browsing the Kansas City Crime Scene Blog, as I do almost everyday, I saw 2 DUI stories on the same day that are all too common. The first story concerns a guy who was passed out in his car at about 4 p.m. When the officers aroused him, he was lethar
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A 17 year old boy in California got a ticket for going 62 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone. The officer clocked him with a radar gun. End of story, right? Well, it turns out that the boy’s father is a retired law enforcement officer h
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Jackson County, Missouri had another questionable DUI checklane over the weekend. This one involved 9 different law enforcement agencies. I don’t know how many officers were involved, but I would suspect somewhere between 18 and 40. For all of
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Admit it. You probably thought Richard Jewell was the Centennial Park assassin after the FBI declared him a key suspect and psychologists went on the air to describe how he fit the profile of a “lone bomber”. I know I fell for it. Mr. Jewell prot
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