News:  DECEMBER 2, 2011
In most Bay Area counties, if you or your lawyer show up to court for your first DUI court date (arraignment), there are a number of things that can happen.  Usually a not guilty plea is entered and the lawyer fights the case.  However, sometimes the District Attorney’s office has not filed [...]

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Thanksgiving DUI Arrests decrease in 2011

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NEWS:  November 19, 2009
CHP DUI enforcement in Oakland and San Francisco has recently increased on the Bay Bridge.  The newly installed “S-Curve,” or as I heard a radio host this morning refer to it as “Mess-Curve,” has resulted in an increase of CHP enforcement.  The new section of the San Francisco to Oakland connection is [...]

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According to CHP, the number of arrests for DUI in the Bay Area from 6PM Wednesday, December 31 2008 to 6AM Thursday January 1, 2009 is double the number from the same period last year.  This year there were 84 Drunk Driving arrests in the San Francisco Bay Area, compared to 41 Drunk Driving arrests [...]

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An Oakland man who says he was strip-searched in an Alameda County jail after a drunken-driving arrest has filed a federal class-action suit accusing the county of conducting the searches without evidence that detainees are hiding weapons or contraband.
Ron Charles Roth, 47, filed suit two months after a judge gave final approval to a [...]

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