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Dayton DUI Attorney Charles Rowland > Posts tagged "operating a vehicle impaired" (Page 6)

Interstate Driver License Compact

The Interstate Driver License Compact is an agreement between 45 member states to exchange arrest information for certain traffic violations, including DUI.  For example, if you are arrested in Ohio for DUI, Ohio will inform your home state.  Your home state may take no action, immediate action or treat the offense as if it occurred in your home state for licensure purposes.  The intended goal of the Compact was to prevent the occurrence of multiple driving records that were “hidden” from other states.  Currently there are five states that are...

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Drunk Driving Checkpoints are Not Effective

Image by peterkellystudios via FlickrThe American Beverage Institute is an industry-sponsored advocacy group that has stood up to Mother Against Drunk Drivers and their campaing for roadside checkpoints. The beverage group says that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) should back off from the roadblocks and instead support roving patrols to catch heavy drinkers. "By promoting sobriety checkpoints, MADD and NHTSA are ignoring the root cause of today's drunk driving problem - hard core alcohol abusers,'' ABI managing director Sarah Longwell said in a statement."Because they are highly visible by design and publicized in advance,...

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Xenia DUI Salutes Philopotes & Dionysus

Xenia, Ohio is named after the Greek word for "hospitality."  Besides the name for Greene County's seat of government, we owe a great debt to Greek culture and ideals.If you could wander around the Aegean coast around 700 B.C. you would find an abundance of alcohol; wine specifically.  The libation was a mainstay of Hellenistic society and it was used to honor the gods, as currency, as medicine, as a thirst-quencher and to get drunk.  In fact, using alcohol was considered a civic duty in Athens.  At great gatherings and feasts officials, known as oinoptai made sure that the wine...

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Drunk Driving Billboards Are Meant to Instill Fear

Here is a DUI billboard which is appearing right now in Austin, Texas.  The stated goal of the NHTSA (drunk driver detection) training that police officers undergo is to instill fear of arrest in the public.  Is it a good idea to make every citizen fear the police?  What kind of impact does this have on law enforcement?  It is the position of Charles M. Rowland that people who live in a free country should not be intimidated by their police force.  Further, the cause of eliminating impaired drivers is hurt when there is a wide-spread perception that officers are...

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Chillicothe DUI Services

Charles M. Rowland II is proud to offer services to persons accused of a DUI/OVI offense in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.If you find yourself accused of a misdemeanor DUI (now called OVI; operating a vehicle impaired) in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio you will appear before Judge Thomas E. Bunch or Judge John B. Street, or before Magistrate Jane Spring Martin.  The Chillicothe Municipal Court is located at 26 S. Paint St., Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.  You should visit the web site of the Chillicothe Municipal Court for valuable information about your Chillicothe DUI case.  If you are searching for an...

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