Blog Posts in 2014
Posted on Dec 17, 2014 By Gold & Witham
To put it simply, insurance companies equate DUIs with high risk driving, and the higher the risk, the higher your insurance premiums will be. The cost of your insurance is dependent on a number of ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2014 By Gold & Witham
In January of this year, the Costa Mesa Police Department disbanded its specialized DUI enforcement team because of staff reductions in its traffic department. For more than twenty years, the ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2014 By Gold & Witham
Is it possible to get a DUI if you weren't driving at the time of your arrest? While it doesn't happen incredibly often, some people are arrested for drunk driving while sitting in a parked ...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2014 By Gold & Witham
If you are not a citizen of the United States but you possess a green card (permanent resident visa), usually a DUI will not do anything to affect your immigration status. Deportable offenses and ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2014 By Gold & Witham
If sobriety checkpoints are supposed to catch drunk drivers off guard, why do police announce where and when they will be? This is to protect the individual's constitutional rights. Many people ...
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Posted on Oct 22, 2014 By Gold & Witham
Can dental devices affect your DUI breath test? It turns out, they can. Dental devices like dentures or retainers can affect something called "mouth alcohol." Because DUI breathalyzers test ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2014 By Gold & Witham
An Anaheim fire battalion chief who is also the mayor of Murrieta was arrested on Thursday last week for DUI. According to reports, Alan Long, who is 44 years of age, was involved in a traffic ...
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