Urban legends can be found on virtually every subject, from health matters (“sleeping with raw onions on your feet can cure illness!”) to stories of alligators in sewers and the guy who used a microwave oven to dry his hair. Amusing, perhaps, but not true. Urban legends also persist around
Every breath you take. Every move you make. Your car will be watching you. At least that’s the hope of some federal safety regulators at work on technology to detect alcohol in a driver’s breath or touch. The “seamless” technology would apparently disable a vehicle so that it could not
A Denver police officer’s guilty plea to a DUI charge has resulted in unintended consequences for the department, according to a TV news report. The officer was in a car accident last year in which no one was hurt. After a breath test was administered by Thornton police, the Denver
Imagine that you’re driving an hour north of Denver in Weld County. A police officer pulls you over and asks you to take a breath test. You’re informed that the test shows that your blood alcohol content is unacceptably high. You are then placed under arrest for driving under the
We have more than once written about the efforts of politicians to toughen Colorado DUI laws. Politicians are busy crafting ever-harsher penalties elsewhere, too. One example is Florida, where lawmakers are considering a law that would require repeat DUI offenders to submit to two breath tests per day. In addition,
They say that a fine wine gets better as it ages. The same is apparently not true of older drivers who drink fine wine. Though there has been little mention of it in Denver media, a new study shows that older drivers are more affected by alcohol consumption than younger
Recreational marijuana use became legal in Colorado on January 1, and with that major law change has come many questions about driving under the influence of marijuana. Under Colorado law, it is possible to be charged with driving under the influence of marijuana. Technically, it is illegal to drive with
When a person in Colorado is believed to be driving while alcohol impaired, a law enforcement officer may follow a series of protocols to help him determine if his suspicion is correct. While some states have raised questions regarding the validity of standardized field sobriety testing, like a one-leg stand,
Drunk driving defense lawyers in Denver and across Colorado are voicing their frustration with recent findings about the state’s DUI crime lab. Essentially, the lab continually showed bias in favor of prosecutors that ultimately helped them win convictions against drivers who were ostensibly innocent. According to a DenverPost.com report, the
The U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled that police will in most cases need to obtain a search warrant before blood tests can be ordered for any individual charged with a drunken driving offense. Prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement officers maintain that the alcohol in the bloodstream would dissipate and
