Even if a victim doesn’t press charges or initiate a personal injury lawsuit against another person who may or may not be negligent in causing a car accident, local police and municipal courts are not likely to feel much sympathy for any motorist who causes an injury accident while allegedly…
Causing significant personal injury or property damage as the result of a car or truck accident can sometimes result in negative ramifications (criminally and/or from a civil standpoint) for the negligent party. This is almost a given in any municipality around the Garden State. And, while causing an accident through…
As any one who has been arrested for drunk driving here in the Garden State probably knows already, being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or prescription drugs — also known as drug DUI — can be difficult in and of itself to fight in court; but to…
Causing a traffic accident is bad enough when alcohol or prescription drugs (
For those who have been arrested or charged with driving under the influence of either prescription drugs or other, possibly illegal substances (also known as drug DUI), you may wonder if the police and the prosecutor’s office have the necessary evidence to secure a guilty verdict in court. Depending on…
While getting a summons for drunken driving should not be taken lightly here in the Garden State, there are worse alcohol-related offenses that one should be concerned about. Being arrested for drunk driving at a typical sobriety checkpoint is one way to be introduced to your local legal system, however…
Fighting a drunken driving charge is serious business and should never be taken lightly. Guilty or innocent, anyone who has been charged with DWI or drug DUI (usually because of alleged impairment due to prescription medication) needs to understand that the financial and social implications of a drunk driving conviction…
Having worked as a municipal prosecutor handling hundreds of cases involving the prosecution of Garden State motorists for drunk driving offenses, I know how hard our state and local police officers work to protect the rest of us on public roads and byways. This is by no means an easy…
According to news reports, witnesses in the fatal DWI traffic accident case against former “Melrose Place” actress Amy Locane stated that the TV star was found allegedly “giggling in a ditch” following the fatal 2010 drunken driving wreck that killed the driver and occupant of a second vehicle in June…
It appears that many of the stories we find in the news these days involve accused drunken drivers who have become involved in a car or truck accident as a result of their alleged alcohol consumption or use of prescription medication (drug DUI). A smaller percentage of accidents also involve…