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The Driving Under the Influence (DUI) charges you never received but must be prepared to defend

You may be facing your first DUI charge. It could have been one of those fluke situations–you had a couple of drinks too many this one time and ended up driving. That can happen in real life. However, because of pervasive distorted reporting by powerful interest groups and their media…

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Illinois Driver’s License Reinstatement after a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Conviction

If you are convicted of DUI and have an Illinois driver’s license, your license will be revoked. You must then submit yourself to a driver’s license reinstatement process before you are allowed to drive legally. The length of time you are required to wait before being eligible for reinstatement depends…

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Simple things to keep in mind if you are arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Illinois

In Illinois, the county coroner’s office works with various police agencies within the coroner’s county. This recent article in the Chicago Sun-Times online concerns the deputy coroner of Will County Illinois (suburban Chicago) who was arrested on suspicion of DUI. If the police report is accurate, she seemed to imply…

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Sam Shepard faces first offender consequences from Illinois DUI

If this is your first Illinois DUI arrest, things may not be as bad as they could be. The sentence that celebrity playwright and actor Sam Shepard received for his Bloomington, Illinois DUI arrest is fairly typical for first offenders. The term “first offender” has two very different meanings for…

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In Illinois, blood test results are admissible in a prosecution for Driving Under the Influence (DUI)

An emergency room nurse in Chicago recently refused to draw blood from a patient at the request of police. The police suspected alcohol caused the accident for which the accused sought medical care. The nurse insisted on first consulting her supervisor, and the article focused on the her lawsuit against…

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