Happy Groundhog Day from all of us at DaytonDUI. If you find yourself in need of an attorney due to the festivities and celebrations of Groundhog Day, give us a call at (937) 318-1384 or 1-888-ROWLAND [888-769-5263]....
Continue readingHappy Holidays from all of us at Babb & Rowland and DaytonDUI. The season brings to mind all of the goodness you have brought to us throughout the year and we wish to express our gratitude and thanks to you — our clients.We also wish to thank the law enforcement officers who patrol our streets. As we open our gifts on Christmas morning, there is an officer somewhere doing an impossibly dangerous job and doing it with dignity and a respect for the perpetrator that will never be reciprocated. I did not want to let this season pass without offering this sincere...
Continue readingThe Ohio State Highway Patrol announced its annual "Holiday DUI Blitz." The 6-State Trooper Project is a multi-state law enforcement partnership aimed at providing combined and coordinated law enforcement and security services in the areas of highway safety, criminal patrol and intelligence sharing.The holiday dui initiative will take place from Friday, December 5 at 12:01 a.m. through Sunday, December 7 at 11:59 p.m. This high-visibility enforcement effort will include the Indiana State Police, Kentucky State Police, Michigan State Police, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Pennsylvania State Police and the West Virginia State Police. Charles M. Rowland II dedicates his practice to defending...
Continue readingSUMMARY: Nobody plans on a Christmas Party DUI Arrest, but police are out in force during the Christmas Holiday Season. If you plan to drink and drive, prepare yourself ahead of time in these three ways: Protect Yourself, Educate Yourself and Empower Yourself with knowledge. See details below.'Tis the season for Christmas parties and Christmas party DUI arrests. If you are arrested you may be thinking, "What do I do now?" Being arrested for DUI is a frightening and traumatic experience. Our clients often struggle to deal with the stigma and shame associated with a DUI arrest. Many strong people are brought...
Continue readingAs we approach the Thanksgiving holiday I wish to take time to express my gratitude. This has been a year of great accomplishments for me and for the issues for which I have always advocated. I have decided to share with you some of the things that have made the past year so great!I am thankful that I work with Mark Babb, Lori Gaipo, Jamie Anderson, Jess Rudolf, Lee Edwards and David J. Smith. David joined us, and Jamie welcomed a new baby. We laughed and grew even closer as a firm and shared life's ups, downs, tears and laughter...
Continue readingThe unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
Continue readingTHE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of...
Continue readingWe, the people of the State of Ohio, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and promote our common welfare, do establish this Constitution Article I - Bill of Rights§ 01 Inalienable Rights (1851)All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety.§ 02 Right to alter, reform, or abolish government, and repeal special privileges (1851)All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and...
Continue readingTo celebrate the 4th of July holiday, DaytonDUI is publishing some of the great documents upon which our freedom rests. This spirited poem, "The Defiance of Fort McHenry" inspired our national anthem. O! say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there – O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ...
Continue readingLeading up to the Independence Day holiday, DaytonDUI will be publishing the great documents supporting our independence. These documents are what it means to be an American. COMMON SENSE by Thomas Paine PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the...
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