Month: February 2012

Breathalyzers are typically the weapon of choice for most State College and Pennsylvania cops in securing a DUI arrest. However, as prominent DUI Pennsylvania attorney, Justin McShane, demonstrates in this video, breathalyzers are not the most reliable of tools. If...

State College, PA- In a case that seems to be more fiction than reality, a State College jury awarded a record high for Centre County damages. $16.5 million dollars was awarded to a woman who was drugged by her former State College psychologist. I know that I said...

Easton, PA- An Easton, PA woman who was acquitted of DUI by a jury, was convicted mere minutes later by a Northhampton County Judge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Northampton County Judge Michael Koury convicted Jessica Trump, 25, last week of a lesser...

A little over a year ago, a Philadelphia attorney decided to challenge the results of the breathalyzers being used in the field to convict Pennsylvania drivers of DUI. Attorney Joseph Kelly, initially noticed the error in a calibration report. At that time,...

In a lesson all Pennsylvania and State College drivers should heed, vanity plates are nothing but trouble. Apparently not a regular visitor to this DUI Blog, Denver Broncos starting running back and former Georgia Bulldog Knowshon Moreno was pulled over last week and...

Edmonton, Canada- In a piece first reported by Canadian Broadcast News ("CBC"), Edmonton police are requesting that people refrain from tweeting the locations of checkpoints set up to catch drunk drivers. CBC News reported that in several recent instances, Twitter...

I hope to make this a semi-regular post that discusses the financial impact of DUI arrests in Pennsylvania and State College and the spike in recent years of the number of DUI arrests in Pennsylvania. What's interesting is when you delve below the initial statistics,...