19 January

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Ohio DUI: A Little Drift Justifies a Stop (State v. Mays)

Image via WikipediaThe Supreme Court of Ohio ruled last September that a momentary drift a few inches over the white line at the edge of the road is sufficient grounds for a police officer to pull over an otherwise safe driver. The ruling upheld the conviction of Christopher Mays who had been stopped by a state trooper on Route 16, a four-lane highway near Newark, on March 26, 2006."The question of whether appellant might have a possible defense to a charge of violating R.C. 4511.33 is irrelevant in our analysis of whether an officer has a reasonable and...

02 January

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Rowland says “KICK DUI”

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Charles M. Rowland II is proud to announce his continued relationship with www.DUI1.com and 1-800-KICK-DUI. www.DUI1.com is one of the most established DUI websites with many years of service to clients accused of drunk driving. "We have put 1-800-KICK-DUI on buses, on store fronts and all over downtown windows in Xenia, Ohio," said Rowland. If you are accused of an OVI offense this holiday season, call Charles M. Rowland II at 1-800-KICK-DUI...

30 November

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Checkpoint Results in Five Arrests

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Contact Charles M. Rowland II if you find yourself facing a DUI (now called OVI; operating a vehicle impaired) visit www.DaytonDUI.com or call 937-318-1DUI. WASHINGTON TWP., Montgomery Co. — The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Montgomery County Combined Agency O.V.I. Task Force conducted an O.V.I. sobriety checkpoint from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, on Lyons Road at Yankee Street.The checkpoint and patrols around the checkpoint resulted in five O.V.I. arrests, one misdemeanor arrest, one felony arrest, one adult restraint citation, one driving under suspension citation, and five...

14 October

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Ohio Cop Reprimanded for Making More Arrests than Tickets

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Madison Township, Ohio officer tied for the most criminal arrests is reprimanded for not writing enough speeding tickets. A Madison Township, Ohio police officer whose record of busting real criminals is unbeaten found himself reprimanded for failing to focus on writing traffic tickets. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Officer Ken Braden only wrote 85 tickets last year when his most prolific fellow officer wrote 388 while arresting fewer criminals. For that, Police Chief Greg Ryan punished Braden. "He gets paid as much as the other officers," Ryan told the Dispatch. "He should do as much work as the other officers."Ryan boasts that...

26 September

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Dayton Drunk Driving Roadblock Announced

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[caption id="attachment_5192" align="alignright" width="150" caption="www.DaytonDUI.com, 937-318-1DUI"][/caption]The Montgomery County Combined Agency DUI Task Force plans to operate a sobriety checkpoint on September 26th on North Gettysburg Dr. at Kings Highway. The checkpoint will be conducted betwen the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. Agencies included will be the Dayton Police Department, the Miami Township Police, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department and the Perry Township Police.If you find yourself in need of an attorney who has sucessfully defended checkpoint cases please contact Charles M. Rowland II at 937-879-9542 or 24 hours a day at:...

01 August

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Prohibition in Ohio

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[caption id="attachment_5208" align="alignright" width="300" caption="www.OhioDUIdefense.com"][/caption]The picture is of the National Prohibition Convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1892. The party still exists although they have had to overcome some major infighting that caused many to leave the movement. "The party's greatest success was in 1919, with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. That Amendment outlawed the production, sale, transportation, import, and export of alcohol. The era during which alcohol was illegal in the USA is generally known as "Prohibition". The enactment of national prohibition took away...

02 July

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Trial Lawyers Are Lucky

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Trial lawyers are a lucky breed. We get to spend our lives talking to juries about the magesty of our Constitution. More than others we get to see how ideals matter and how fragile our system really is. For the majority of my life I have seen my leaders fight hard to uphold the Constitution. While I may have had political differences with a politician, I have never actually feared that one group was actually a threat to our core American values. I now fear for our Constitution.As you enter your holiday...

02 June

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Name That Drug… from the DEA

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Image via WikipediaCan you identify this drug?If you can't, and you need to, you can visit http://www.dea.gov/photo_library.html for a pretty impressive listing of commonly abused drugs. The Photo Library is a service of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.It is interesting to note that despite having a record of shameful futility in the "Drug War" the DEA proudly boasts "35 years of Excellence" on this site. Imagine how good other parts of our world could be if we let these talented and proud warriors fight against a real enemy. (By the way...

31 January

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Ohio Supreme Court Allows Speed and Red-Light Cameras

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Ohio Supreme Court Saves Speed Cameras Text of an Ohio Supreme Court ruling granting cities the authority to install speed and red light cameras without legislative authorization.The Ohio Supreme Court today issued a ruling upholding the right of municipalities to create new "civil penalties" for crimes already covered by criminal statutes. The long-awaited ruling gives the green light for Ohio cities to expand speed camera and red light camera camera programs, an authority which the state legislature had specifically declined to grant."Home rule jurisprudence has become confused over the years because different theories have been used to determine when an ordinance...

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