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Do personal breathalyzers give accurate BAC readings?

The Denver office of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers is on South Colorado Boulevard. But if you want information from the group, you can also visit their website, where they recently featured an article on BAC. The acronym stands for Blood Alcohol Content. It’s a measurement of how much alcohol is

Valentine’s Day: love it or hate it, it’s here

It’s one of those love-it-or-hate-it events on the calendar: Valentine’s Day. For those people in happy, committed relationships, it’s a wonderful day on which to relive memories of the first date or first kiss, and perhaps make new memories. For those who are newly divorced or who have recently been

Enhanced DUI enforcement days ahead

It is pretty close to impossible to accurately predict the future, but we can say with a fair amount of certainty that in coming days the Denver Police Department and other Colorado law enforcement agencies will conduct drunk driving crackdowns. Looking at the calendar year stretching out before us, we

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Colorado DUI case

An appeal by Arapahoe County prosecutors of a DUI case decision won’t be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court let stand a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that excluded blood test evidence in the case. The state had argued that law enforcement officials should be allowed to obtain blood

Researchers work to create roadside pot-breath test machine

With the relaxed laws on recreational marijuana use in Colorado the prospect of being accused of driving under the influence of marijuana seem to be on the rise. In Colorado, state law allows prosecutors to seek DUID charges based upon a chemical test showing five or more nanograms of THC

Colorado woman crashes into home, drives off before DUI arrest

According to Colorado media reports, a 56-year-old woman slammed her car into a house earlier this week. She knocked out the bedroom wall and the home’s front door. She then backed her vehicle out and over debris and drove off, law enforcement officials said. No one was injured in the

Will Colorado Increase DUI Enforcement for Halloween?

Halloween used to be a time for children to dress up as ghosts, cowboys and princesses to walk the neighborhood for candy. Today, the holiday is more of an occasion for adults to dress in wild costumes to attend parties with friends. While the get-togethers can be great fun, the

Who had more DUIs last year: Adams County or Denver County?

The state of Colorado has an informative website at NoDUIColorado.org. One of its most interesting features is an interactive map of the state which shows the number of DUI arrests in each county last year, as well as the average blood alcohol content (BAC) of the drivers in the arrests.

Do I have the right to refuse a Colorado DUI sobriety test?

Most of our Denver readers are aware of constitutional rights to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and so on. But even in a nation with such a long and proud tradition of upholding the rights of the individual, it is sometimes difficult to know if we have

Should everyone have their own breathalyzer?

Technology changes so quickly today that it’s virtually impossible to keep up. All sorts of inanimate things are now “smart”: phones, watches, microwaves and burglar alarm systems, to name just a few. Less publicized is the proliferation of technology that rides along with police officers in many parts of the

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