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Washington Department of Licensing maintains a plethora of information regarding your driving history. The length of time the information is retained for depends on the type of information: Convictions for DUI, Physical Control, alcohol-related offenses, Deferred Prosecutions, Vehicular Assaults and Vehicular Homicide Convictions remain on your driving abstract for 99 years. Convictions, bail forfeitures and [...]
If you are arrested for a DUI offense in Washington State for DUI offenses the officer will be required to impound your vehicle for 12 hours. The new DUI bill was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Chris Gregoire and will take effect in July, 2011. “Hailey’s Law,” named after a driver who had a [...]
The 2010 Washington State Legislative session has brought several law changes related to DUI cases. The biggest changes are not to the DUI laws themselves, but collateral laws such as the Interlock Ignition License statute, child dependency and traffic laws. Unless otherwise noted the updates below do not take effect until January 1, 2011. Mandatory [...]
Some imporant DUI-related rulings were handed down in Washington in October. State v. Stalker, decided October 19, 2009 by Division I involves a DUI and Hit and Run. This case is relevant to DUI Defense because of the significant number of Hit and Run charges that accompany DUIs. The trial court dismissed the Hit and [...]
Scott Winebrenner and Jesus Quezada were on deferred prosecutions in the City of Seattle for seperate DUI offenses. Both committed and were sentenced on new DUI charges. The Seattle Municipal Court judge revoked their deferred prosecutions and proceeded to sentencing. The Assistant City Attorney argued that the new DUIs should be considered “prior DUIs” for [...]
Did you know you can be found guilty of “DUI” simply by sitting behind the wheel of your car while over the legal limit? “Physical Control” is essentially the same crime as DUI without the driving element (.08% or higher within 2 hours of being in control of a vehcile). The potential and minimum punishments [...]
If you have been arrested and/or cited in the City of Lynnwood you may have received a yellow slip of paper directing you to report to jail for formal booking. The notice states: “Prior to your scheduled arraignment you must report to the Lynnwood Police Department jail to be fingerprinted and photographed. You must report [...]
