From one hoop to the next. That imagery likely works just fine for Colorado motorists well accustomed to successive drunk driving crackdowns administered by the state’s Department of Transportation. Those operations are deep-pocketed, amply resourced and carried out...
Drunk Driving Charges
Colorado DUI per se: a few key points to note
Following is a sketched behind-the-wheel scenario that might clarify a matter of importance for many Colorado drivers. To wit: You’re driving down a street, highway or other roadway in the state when flashing lights suddenly materialize behind you. To your dismay, the...
Spotlight on CO’s annual spring DUI enforcement crackdown
Colorado hardly takes a one-and-done approach toward law enforcers’ efforts to identify intoxicated motorists and thereafter subject them to some of the nation’s harshest drunk driving penalties. Their actions in that regard are persistent and ongoing, as referenced...
Denver celebrity DUI case instructive: charges dropped
From rock and roll’s Boss to a perennial all-star baseball player to a top-tier football running back. From New Jersey to Florida to Colorado. Any regular reader of our criminal defense blogs at the proven Denver law firm of Shazam Kianpour & Associates might...
DUI arrest: Valentine’s Day gift from Colorado law enforcers?
Stepping stones. That one-after-the-other imagery might reasonably crop up for Colorado motorists who seemingly conclude one anti-DUI campaign and immediately confront another multiple times each calendar year. In fact, “seemingly” is almost certainly a misplaced...
January ushers in new series of Colorado DUI enforcement campaigns
If you’re an enterprising and numbers-oriented Colorado resident seeking gainful employment, the state’s Department of Transportation might be just the place for you. In fact, it looks to be employment heaven for statisticians and data analysts who can crunch numbers...
Key takeaways regarding Colorado’s ignition interlock law
We have noted in many prior Shazam Kianpour & Associates blog posts the zero-sum approach that state officials and law enforcers take regarding drunk driving offenses. To wit: If you are arrested on a DUI charge, authorities will diligently seek a criminal...
Look for amped-up CO roadway police presence through end of the year
The enforcement tools readily employed by Colorado law enforcers to identify and arrest alleged drunk drivers on state roadways are potent and multiple. And they are on display once again after taking just a brief time out following the recent Halloween weekend....
Promised CDOT/CSP holiday gift to select Colorado drivers: a DUI charge
First of all, let’s just clarify those acronyms in the above blog headline. They serve as abbreviated descriptors for the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado State Patrol, respectively. You might have already known that if you’re a Colorado...
What does that Colorado roadblock up ahead mean for me?
The following scenario plays out recurrently on varied roadways across Colorado. To wit: Drivers going about their customary business – returning home after work, bringing the kids to a school after-hours event, headed to the store to pick up groceries and so forth –...