DUI

For the last few years, Tennessee has been running “no refusal” campaigns around the holidays in various parts of the state. (So far, Sevier County has escaped participation.) The supposed goal of the campaigns is to stop people from drinking and driving. In reality, these campaigns attempt to short-cut important constitutional protections by essentially forcing…

Most people don’t know that you can be charged with a federal DUI – but you can, and its penalties and fines can be far worse than if you are charged by any local officer or Tennessee State Trooper. Federal charges – even DUI charges – need to be defended by an attorney who is…

WJHL ran a story recently about an issue in Sullivan County, where at least a hundred DUI cases may end up being dismissed because the county neglected to provide a detached and neutral magistrate to determine whether officers who subjected citizens to warrantless arrests had probable cause supporting these arrests. Apparently instead of properly presenting…