From a CBS affiliate, lucky number nine was anything but for Dale Gufoil… A simple stop at a nearby yard sale turned out to be his undoing. 51-year-old Gufoil was arrested on a multitude of charges including his ninth DUI! Last Sunday, police responded to a yard sale after reports…
A local interest story from an Alabama newspaper where a judge had no choice but to release a man arrested for his 12th DUI! Would a Florida judge have to make the same ruling? An Alabama man, after being arrested for DUI posted a $1,000 bond and walked out of…
If bad news comes in threes, then one more Florida judge needs to be on the lookout. From the Miami NBC affiliate, two south Florida judges were arrested for DUI just a few months apart… In Broward County, Judge Lynn Rosenthal became the second County judge to be arrested for…
A local Tampa station has reported that the Florida Bar has released their report and is recommending severe discipline for some Tampa lawyers involved in the Bubba the Love Sponge defamation trial from last year. The news story can be watched here. The full Florida Bar report is available here.…
An interesting case from South Dakota, where a man is appealing his Driving under the Influence conviction on the grounds that he was not even driving! How may this affect Florida DUI law? To DUI or not to DUI…for 54-year-old Donald Nekolite, THAT is the question. The defendant admitted drinking…
From the Insurance Journal, a North Carolina woman has the unusual distinction of being charged with murder for a texting and driving accident that killed an elderly woman. 45-year-old Belinda Strange Hudspeth was arrested las tweek after Highway Patrol troopers claim Ms. Hudspeth was texting while driving and ran off…
An article in the CSM website shines some new light on marijuana legalization and DUI charges. Driving Under the Influence is not just for alcohol as 1000s are finding out the hardway… In the state of Washington, marijuana has been legal since January of 2013. A new report shows an…
An interesting article in the New York Times talks about an upcoming court ruling which if followed in Florida, may open up a new defense to certain criminal charges. The defense? “I was too drunk to know what I was doing”! In New York, three similar charges, three similar results.…
From the Northwest Florida Daily News, a Florida woman’s night goes from bad to worse after her DUI arrest… 24 year-old Sara Kirksey was pulled over for a traffic infraction (running a red light and then turning right on a no turn section) in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She was…
From a Key West, Florida blogspot, two Florida sisters were arrested for a DUI when they both drove the car a short distance… The two Miami sisters were seen by a sheriff’s deputy driving a Volkswagon on a highway late at night. The Deputy noticed some possible clues that the…