News and current events related to DUI & DWI that we found interesting enough to share with our clients and readers.
In a high-profile DWI case that caught the attention of the San Antonio press, District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte made his first appearance in Bexar County Court 11 on May 14, 2024. This hearing, before Judge Erica Peña, marked the beginning of what promises to be a closely watched legal process. Whyte was arrested on […]
From the “you can’t make this up” file comes a story out of Colorado about a man stopped for erratic driving. According to police, he was going 20 miles per hour over the posted limit when police spotted him and pulled him over at 11:30 pm. It must have been a long night because the […]
Houston drunk drivers already pay substantial penalties if they are arrested and convicted. Pretty soon, they could have something else to worry about—child support payments to the family of their victims. A woman in Missouri is trying to get states to adopt Bentley’s Law. Bentley’s Law will make drunk drivers responsible for paying maintenance to […]
DWI Defense for Truckers & Commercial Drivers A DWI arrest can upend anyone’s life. But commercial truck drivers face the immediate loss of their livelihood. Without your CDL it will be very hard to find employment—in fact, you might be forced to switch to a lower paying job just to make ends meet. Texas, like […]
A first-time arrest for DWI is normally a simple misdemeanor in Texas. This means that if tried and convicted, the defendant faces a penalty no harsher than 180 days in jail, a $2,000 fine, and a one-year suspension of their driver’s license. But even a misdemeanor DWI arrest can lead to substantially more serious consequences […]
According to the Houston Chronicle, a Houston-based man faces charges in two fatal separate DWI-related auto crashes A Look at the Case Blaine T. Boudreaux allegedly caused three car crashes in one day in late April in Houston, according to the news report. In the first incident early in the afternoon, police say Boudreaux rear-ended […]
We recently ran across a news item in which it was reported that a Montgomery County man was sentenced to Double-Life for his latest in string of DWI offenses in the Houston area. Contact attorney Tad Nelson at 281-502-2122 if you’re in a similar situation and need legal representation you can be confident in. Don’t […]
