Early on Tuesday January 1st, New Year's Day a Wyoming man was stopped in Coalville. The officer smelled alcohol on his breath and administered a breathalyzer test. The man blew a 0.089% BAC. He was brought back to the station and had the official breathalyzer test administered 90 minutes later. The man blew a 0.059% BAC, which is over Utah's new legal limit of 0.05%.   According [...]

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Marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in nine states and thirty states have made medical marijuana legal. Utah will be voting this November on Proposition 2, which could legalize medical marijuana in Utah. With marijuana being used more widely and "legally" the increase in marijuana DUI drivers has grown. With Utah being sandwiched in between two states that have legalized [...]

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There's two things that Utah Police Officers can do after arresting and citing someone for DUI. 1. They can put the person in handcuffs and take them to jail. 2. They can call someone to come and pick up the DUI driver and take them home. It all comes down to the arresting officers discretion. And whether or not they see the drunk driver as public safety risk. The spokesman for the North [...]

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Road fatalities had been decreasing for years in Utah and throughout the United States until recently in 2015, when they began to rise drastically. This increase in road fatalities is mainly caused by distracted drivers who are texting while driving. To combat this trend of texting and driving law makers are proposing some drastic ideas to decrease this trend in Utah and the United States. Law[...]

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There are several DUI cases that are being reviewed in Colorado that involve false readings from an Intoxilyzer-9000, the breathalyzer machine that Colorado law enforcement use to perform breath tests on would be DUI convictions. Intoxilyzer-9000s are are not accurate from time to time, but their reports are often used as the main piece of evidence in the prosecutors case. There have been [...]

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