Many clients who suffer a driver’s license suspension ask us for advice regarding when they should surrender their license to PennDOT. Dealing with a driver’s license suspension is stressful. Besides losing the ability to drive, you need to navigate the rules of PennDOT. There is no government body more confusing than PennDOT. It is impossible […]
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New Harsher PA DUI Laws Signed
Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf just signed a series of harsher DUI laws known as “Deana’s Law.” Deana Eckman was a young woman killed by a 6 time convicted drunk driver, David Strowhouer, who crossed into oncoming traffic while passing another car and hit Deana’s car head-on, killing her. Had Strowhouer received consecutive prison time for his […]
Smoke medical marijuana and get a Pennsylvania DUI?
The Pennsylvania Superior Court just shocked the world with something we have written about over and over on this blog. If you smoke medical marijuana prescribed by a doctor in Pennsylvania and then then drive your car at any point in the next month you risk getting a DUI. Right now you are probably rejecting […]
Arrested for DUI without drinking?
Many times I have heard attorneys laugh about clients with DUI level BAC results who deny they were drinking. Ridiculous right? Right – in most cases. But some of these clients are telling the truth. How can that be? Auto-brewery Syndrome is a medical condition where the body actually produces alcohol during digestion, creating an […]
PA police really do need a warrant to draw the blood of an unconscious DUI driver
The Pennsylvania Superior Court just decided the case of Akim Sharif Jones-Williams, finding that police must have a warrant or valid exception to the warrant requirement to request a blood draw of a DUI driver who is fading in and out of consciousness. The warrant requirement is clear. Police can only avoid getting a search […]