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Southern California DUI Defense (SCDD) is widely regarded as one of the state’s top DUI defense law firms. Many of the DUI lawyers with the firm are former district attorneys who previously prosecuted drunk driving cases for the government. SCDD also uses a highly regarded network of DUI toxicologists, all of whom formerly worked for government crime labs.
California DUI Offenders in Riverside and Contra Costa Counties will be seeing more of their probation officers.
Every year hundreds of people in Los Angeles county, Ventura county, San Bernardino county and Riverside county are being arrested and charged with DUI Ambien or DUI Lunesta offenses. Driving while under the influence of sleep medication is illegal and can lead to an arrest for DUI Ambien or DUI Lunesta. The FDA has recently come out and said that it may not be entirely your fault.
Yvonne Sinclair was charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter and two counts of DUI causing injury by the Rancho Cucamonga division of the San Bernardino County District Attorney. Sinclair was released on $250,000 bail.
Sobriety Checkpoints in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties Being Used for More Than DUI Arrests
Although sobriety checkpoints are intended to help keep drunk drivers off the roads, a recent checkpoint set up in North Indio on Tuesday April 18th, operating from 6pm until midnight, impounded 22 cars without a singe DUI ticket being written.
The evening of April 8th proved fairly routine for California Highway Patrol and the Sonora Police Department. The two departments worked together operating a sobriety checkpoint on Highway 49 in Jamestown for six hours stopping over 600 vehicles. While they did issued 13 citations, only two people were arrested for driving under the influence.
While the total number of drunk-driving fatalities is down 39% Nationwide since 1982, efforts to deter people from drinking and driving have stalled in California. Despite a continual National decline, California has experienced a steady incline in their percentage of drunk-driving fatalities since 1998. In 2004, California overtook Texas in having the most drunk-driving fatalities in the nation, a title Texas unwillingly held since 2000. These statistics prompted Assemblyman Ray Haynes to draft a proposal to combat this problem. His proposal, AB 2099, if passed, would require red license plates to be attached to the vehicles of all repeat DUI offenders in the state of California in order to warn the public and alert police. While Nathaniel Hawthorne would surely have been proud of Mr. Haynes’ plan, there are many others who have loudly opposed this proposal. Those supporting AB 2099 made their case April 4th in front of the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
