- Wide Turns: A Common Reason Police Stop People for DUI in TucsonEach holiday season the police here in Tucson conduct annual DUI “saturation patrols.” These result in the arrests hundreds of people, most whom have never been charged with a crime in their lives. But not everyone the police stop is swerving all over the road. Concentrating on Fourth Avenue, University of Arizona campus, and downtown, the police often use de minimus reasons as excuses to stop you: things they claim are traffic violations, but are actually things drivers do every day.
- University of Arizona Students: “Greek Life” & Criminal ChargesFraternities have made the news, in Arizona, and not lately in good ways. Rampant underage use of alcohol, dangerous and unlawful hazing, and absolute tragedies have garnered headlines, triggered arrests, and resulted in many fraternities being removed from campus, in some cases with particularly good reason.
- Buying Beer in the Student Union – Minor in PossessionDrinking, as your parents will admit, if they’re honest, is an expected and largely tolerated part of college life. If your parents are old enough, they remember when you could buy beer in the student union—back then the drinking age was eighteen.
- How to Choose a DUI LawyerChoosing the right lawyer in the beginning may be the single most important factor in determining the outcome in the end. In fact, choosing the right DUI lawyer will likely be the most important single decision you make in the entire case. This simple article gives you a few surprising and hopefully helpful tips.
- Students: How a Small Crime Could Affect You the Rest of Your LifeFacing tough penalties will not be the only worry for a student or young professional who has a drug conviction. Your college life and present/future career could be placed at surprising risk. For students, a misdemeanor drug conviction could affect your college life
- Arizona DUI Law Update: MarijuanaSince the passage of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA) in 2010, we have seen a sharp increase in DUI-marijuana arrests. The potency of modern dispensary marijuana, greater than commercial grade, may be a factor. This article will clarify the current state of Arizona DUI-marijuana laws.
- Odor of Marijuana Alone Not Enough for Warrant in ArizonaIn an important new split decision, State v. Sisco, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that odor of marijuana alone is not enough to support a search warrant.
- Arizona Court of Appeals Upholds Consent Blood DrawArizona law contains the legal fiction that anyone driving an automobile within the state of Arizona (even on private property) has “consented” to having their blood drawn, if an officer has “reason to believe” the person is “above the legal limit” (.08 BAC). This is true for people who don’t know about the law and have never actually consented. This law allows the police to obtain blood without a warrant.
- DUI and Anonymous TipsUS Supreme Court case Navarette v. California, gives police more leeway to stop a driver solely on the basis anonymous tip of a single instance of bad driving, even where the police themselves follow a vehicle and see only good driving.
- “Sniffing Out Crime”: Rodriguez and DUI InvestigationsThe guardians are similar to the dog “‘[i]n that it (the dog and analogously the guardians) distinguishes friendly from hostile looks by nothing other than by having learned the one and being ignorant of the other’” ( Plato—the Republic, 376b). Today, the police “canine partner,” a guardian on a leash, possesses, as the police would […]