San Diego California DUI lawyers report that drunk drivers will be targeted by specialized patrols and at checkpoints across Riverside County through Labor Day as part of a holiday crackdown.

The California Highway Patrol's maximum enforcement period, during which about 80 percent of officers will be on duty, began at Friday at 6 p.m. and wraps up at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, according to Riverside-area CHP Sgt. David Lane.

“We'll be looking for impaired drivers and drivers responsible for primary collision factors – speeding, unsafe lane changes, things that cause collisions and injury,” Lane said. “Our goal is to reduce the loss of life as well as property damage. We do that by enforcing all violations. But we're targeting those PCFs.”
He said 43 DUI arrests were made by CHP officers in the western half of the county over Labor Day weekend last year.

Karen Haverkamp, traffic bureau supervisor for the Riverside Police Department, said the CHP's maximum enforcement effort coincides this year with a two-week countywide law enforcement campaign to catch alcohol- or drug-impaired drivers.

The “Drunk Driving, Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign began Aug. 15 and concludes Monday. Haverkamp said that as of Wednesday, saturation patrols and DUI checkpoints in the county had snared 230 suspected drunken drivers.

Five sobriety checkpoints and 11 coordinated saturation patrols are planned by law enforcement agencies countywide, Haverkamp said.

The anti-DUI operations are funded in part by a $700,000 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant, according to Haverkamp.

The NHTSA is funding similar operations nationwide.

Haverkamp said Riverside County's 30 municipal, county and state law enforcement agencies are taking part in the campaign. The agencies' combined efforts are called “Avoid the 30.”

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San Diego California DUI criminal defense lawyers report that gas prices, the looming uncertainty of the nation's economy and embattled airlines raising rates and adding fees have dampened the spirits of holiday travelers for a third consecutive national holiday weekend this year, according to AAA of Northern California.

According to the latest AAA travel survey, a little more than 4.3 million Californians are expected to travel 50 miles or more this Labor Day weekend. This represents an overall 1.4 percent decrease from last year.

"We are definitely noticing a significant downward trend in travel this year," explained Cynthia Harris, spokeswoman for AAA of Northern California. "But even as Californians face steep increases in travel expenses, they continue to put a high value on travel in their lives and find resources for quick getaways with family and friends."

AAA's annual Labor Day travel forecast predicts more than 3.5 million Californians will be taking to the roads and highways to reach their weekend destinations. This represents a 1.8 percent decrease from last year's auto travel forecast.

Even with the lower projections, California Highway Patrol units in Jackson and San Andreas are gearing up for the three-day weekend.

Highway patrol units across the state will be on the road during the maximum enforcement period that kicks off today at 6:01 p.m. and ends midnight on Monday.

"Local traffic may be increased as holiday travelers enjoy the beauty of the Mother Lode," said Lt. J.R. Pelfanio, commander of the CHP's San Andreas unit. "Unfortunately, the possibility for collisions also increases.

The San Andreas CHP arrested six people for driving under the influence during last year's Labor Day weekend. "Patrol officers will be looking for DUI drivers and other safety violations," Pelfanio said. "If you make the decision to drive under the influence, you will be arrested."

A Plymouth man learned that lesson Saturday in Amador County. Luis Araiza, 27, was believed to be driving under the influence when he crashed his 2004 Nissan through a vineyard on Shenandoah Road east of Dickson Road the evening of Aug. 23 and then fled the scene. Araiza had allowed his vehicle to run off the road and up an embankment where it then smashed through two fences and landed in a vineyard. Araiza then reportedly accelerated his Nissan in an attempt to flee the scene, damaging numerous vines in the process. The CHP caught up to the vehicle and arrested Araiza for the DUI.

There were also three minor accidents in the area this week, one of which resulted in a DUI arrest in Calaveras County on Sunday.


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MARTINEZ — A California DUI drunken-driving checkpoint will be conducted in El Cerrito during the Labor Day weekend, California DUI lawyers and the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office said.

As part of the county's Avoid the 25 campaign — named after the number of California DUI law enforcement agencies in Contra Costa — patrols will be bolstered this weekend to seek out California DUI drunken drivers, California DUI attorneys and the sheriff's office said.

The El Cerrito Police Department will set up a California DUI checkpoint from 7 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday, checking motorists for signs of intoxication.

Last year, the holiday weekend netted 65 California DUI arrests and also saw two California DUI -related traffic fatalities, according to California DUI lawyers and the sheriff's office.

Additionally, the sheriff's marine unit will increase California DUI patrols in the Delta, as water safety awareness in the area was heightened after two recent fatalities involving personal watercraft near Discovery Bay.

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San Diego California DUI criminal defense lawyers learned a measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.

Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the measure, $400,000 came from Soros, who has championed similar efforts in several states and spent $24 million to fight President Bush's 2004 re-election bid. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy needed about $315,000 of that just to collect the more than 100,000 signatures that secured a spot on the ballot, according to campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

"All of us owe George Soros a great deal of gratitude," said Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

If the measure is approved in November, Massachusetts would become the 13th state to lift or ease criminal penalties on marijuana possession. The proposal would make having an ounce or less of the drug a civil offense punishable by a $100 fine.

A spokesman for Soros referred questions to Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance. Soros' efforts to ease penalties for drug crimes have come through the alliance, where he is a member of the board of directors.

Nadelmann said Soros feels the war on drugs is draining money and resources that could be better spent.

"He thinks the (ballot question) is a responsible initiative to reduce the overreliance on criminal justice sanctions in dealing with marijuana," Nadelmann said. "Marijuana should not be a priority of the criminal justice system."

Soros is credited with putting financial muscle behind many of the state initiatives easing marijuana laws — beginning with a 1996 California ballot question to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. From 1996 to 2000, Soros backed medical marijuana questions there and in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nevada and Maine.

More recently he has focused on criminal justice reform efforts including pushing a proposal in California this year that would prohibit sending drug offenders back to prison for parole violations unless they commit a new felony, have a violent or serious record, or are considered high risk by prison officials. He has also contributed to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden and has helped support a group running ads opposing Republican John McCain.

Soros's wealth was estimated at $8.8 billion by Forbes magazine last year. He was also the second-highest-paid hedge fund manager last year at $2.9 billion.

Critics say marijuana decriminalization sends the wrong message to young people — that using drugs carries few consequences. Not only are there health risks associated with marijuana, they say, but users often end up moving on to more dangerous illegal drugs.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone said the marijuana being sold on the street these days is more potent than that sold three decades ago.

"Decriminalizing marijuana is a slippery slope and sends the wrong message," he said. "Compounding this is the fact that users of marijuana are 10 times more likely to be injured, or injure others, in automobile crashes."

Leone said marijuana possession is already treated less stringently in the courts than other drugs.

The question has been criticized by others in law enforcement and drug education groups like DARE-Massachusetts — but according to the secretary of state's office, opponents haven't created a group to raise money to fight the question.

A whopping 72 percent of Massachusetts' voters favored the ballot question and 22 percent opposed it according to a WHDH-TV/Suffolk University poll of 400 registered conducted from July 31-Aug. 3. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Whitney Taylor of the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy said the question would help unclog the courts, save the state millions and spare thousands of residents the burden of a criminal record.

The question requires parental notification and the completion of a drug awareness program for anyone under 18 caught with an ounce or less of the drug. It bars the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana from being used to deny financial aid, public housing or other public assistance, drivers' licenses or the ability to be a foster or adoptive parent.

"They can move on and get a student loan and get their first apartment and move on with their lives," Taylor said. "People recognize that there are a lot better things we could be doing with our police resources."

Currently, possession of small amounts of marijuana in the state is punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $500 fine. Taylor said offenders commonly get probation, but even in those cases the criminal convictions stay on their records.

The only other statewide vote this year on marijuana laws will be in Michigan, where voters are weighing an initiative to allow patients to grow and use small amounts of marijuana for relief from pain associated with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other diseases.

If Massachusetts voters approve the ballot question, according to NORML, the state would join a dozen others which have to some extent decriminalized first-time possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use: Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon.

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San Diego DUI attorneys are told California DUI Sobriety checks planned for Saturday
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Two California DUI sobriety checkpoints will be set up in Petaluma on Saturday, Aug. 30 as part of local law-enforcement agencies’ efforts to assure traffic safety during the upcoming Labor Day weekend.

The California DUI checkpoints are part of a four-day blitz that will begin immediately after midnight on Thursday and end at midnight on Monday, Sept. 1. It is part of "Avoid the 13," the county’s cooperative DUI crackdown, said Jan Ford, public information director for the campaign.

On Friday, Aug. 29, police officers from Petaluma, Cotati, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Windsor, Sonoma, Healdsburg and Cloverdale — along with police from the Santa Rosa Junior College District and Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies — will staff a California DUI checkpoint in Healdsburg from 6 p.m. to midnight.

California DUI Police from Santa Rosa, Sonoma, Healdsburg, the junior college district and Sonoma State University — along with the California Highway Patrol’s Santa Rosa command — are planning saturation patrols throughout the extended weekend. Petaluma police and the other agencies will emphasize DUI enforcement, utilizing officers and deputies working their regular beats.

The California DUI crackdown is part of a nationwide summer DUI prevention effort sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that focuses on combining high-visibility enforcement with achieving heightened public awareness.

Sonoma County law-enforcement personnel made 41 California DUI arrests during last year’s Labor Day weekend, compared with 47 arrests in 2006. No one died in a DUI-related accident in 2007, although one person died the previous year.

This year’s campaign coordinator, Sgt. Steve Bair of the Santa Rosa Police Department, requests citizens to report any observations of impaired drivers.

“Have your passenger dial 911 if you see a car that’s all over the road. We treat these as emergency calls, and will go out after them for you,” he said.

Law-enforcement agencies also plan a 22-day crackdown from Dec. 14 to Jan. 2.

The California Office of Traffic Safety funds the Avoid the 13 campaign through the NHTSA, California DUI lawyers believe.

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California DUI lawyers report 2 arrested, 7 cited at DUI checkpoint

Two drivers were arrested for driving under the influence Friday night at a checkpoint on South Market Street near Grange Street, Redding Police Sgt. Mike Thomas said this morning.

Seven more were cited for traffic violations, including four drivers who were driving on suspended licenses.

Between 7:15 and 11:15 p.m., 836 vehicles passed through the California DUI checkpoint and were screened by California DUI officers. They stopped 65 drivers for further investigation, either at or near the California DUI checkpoint, and gave California DUI field sobriety tests to 12 drivers.

Five vehicles were towed, including those of the suspended drivers.

The Shasta County Avoid the Five DUI Task Force officers working the checkpoint included Anderson and Redding police, Shasta County sheriff’s and probation department officers, and representatives from Shasta County’s chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who handed out information to motorists.

The California DUI program is paid through a grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety.

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California DUI lawyers report 2 arrested, 7 cited at DUI checkpoint

Two drivers were arrested for driving under the influence Friday night at a checkpoint on South Market Street near Grange Street, Redding Police Sgt. Mike Thomas said this morning.

Seven more were cited for traffic violations, including four drivers who were driving on suspended licenses.

Between 7:15 and 11:15 p.m., 836 vehicles passed through the California DUI checkpoint and were screened by California DUI officers. They stopped 65 drivers for further investigation, either at or near the California DUI checkpoint, and gave California DUI field sobriety tests to 12 drivers.

Five vehicles were towed, including those of the suspended drivers.

The Shasta County Avoid the Five DUI Task Force officers working the checkpoint included Anderson and Redding police, Shasta County sheriff’s and probation department officers, and representatives from Shasta County’s chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who handed out information to motorists.

The California DUI program is paid through a grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety.

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San Diego California DUI lawyers report that the Summer/Labor Day DUI crackdown on drinking drivers is starting its second weekend and has resulted in a number of DUI arrests from Special Saturation Patrols and routine patrol in the Riverside County “AVOID” DUI Campaign.

From 12:01 a.m., Friday, August 15, 2008, through midnight, Wednesday, August 20, 2008, officers representing 30 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 19 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and 1 fatal traffic collision has been reported in the City of Riverside. (**NOTE: These numbers are only provisional with many agencies yet to report**)

DUI arrest data collection will continue through midnight Monday, September 1, 2008. Law enforcement officials will be conducting more anti-DUI efforts throughout the county. Additionally, all CHP Areas throughout the state have 80% of all available officers patrolling freeways and county roads throughout the weekend.

5 DUI Checkpoints and 10 coordinated DUI Saturation Patrols are scheduled countywide for this weekend and additional Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols are scheduled for next weekend.

“Driving impaired is simply not worth all the consequences. So don’t take the chance. Remember, if you are over the limit, you’re under arrest,” said Avoid the 30 Riverside County coordinator Karen Haverkamp. “Pre-plan your special events by selecting a Designated Driver before the special event.”

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MEDIA NOTE: Please visit the AVOID website at www.californiaavoid.org and the Riverside County AVOID website at www.avoidthe30.org for more information or contact your local police for ride-alongs. Statistical data on the number of DUI arrests and DUI fatal crashes will be released from the previous day’s activities.
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Report Drunk Drivers – Call 9-1-1.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to San Diego California DUI attorneys.

San Diego DUI lawyers report a blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (750 dollars) by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license.

The owner of the car, who was also drunk as he sat next to the blind man when he drove the vehicle, was given the same sentence and had his license suspended for five months by the court in the northeastern town of Nancy.

The pair were arrested on a country road in the early hours of July 25 by police who spotted their car zig-zagging suspiciously and moving at a very low speed.

The police were astounded when the 29-year-old driver informed them that he was blind, and when they breathalysed him and his passenger, a 52-year-old photographer, they found they had drunk twice the permitted level of alcohol.

"I really wanted to do it (drive the car)," the blind man told the court. "I expressed this wish. He (the owner of the car) agreed."

The owner said he saw "a lot of happiness emanating from him" as he drove, adding that he had "one hand on the handbrake and one hand on the steering wheel" as the blind journalist drove.

"I was very concentrated on the road," he said.

The judge retorted that, as he was well over the legal alcohol limit, "that didn't make you a vey reliable monitor."

The blind journalist had previously driven on a closed circuit, an experience which he had recounted in a regional newspaper in an article which was accompanied by his photographer friend who was in court with him Friday, according to San Diego California drunk driving attorneys.

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CALIFORNIA dui lawyers weren't invited to this party.

It's hardly what you'd expect from a roomful of police officers and paramedics -- the officers not only approved of, but encouraged the paramedics to get drunk at a Manteca hotel.

A dozen officers from around California spent three days this week becoming certified in conducting standardized CALIFORNIA dui field sobriety tests. By getting that certification, they'll be better equipped to win CALIFORNIA dui - drunk driving court cases.

At some point, they needed to put their new knowledge to the test -- and that's where the paramedics entered the picture.

"They can teach you everything in a book, but with hands on, you learn. That's what we're doing today," claimed Manteca Officer Stephen Schluer.

A half-dozen paramedics were asked to help the testing process by reaching blood alcohol levels between .08 and .12. In California, a person is legally drunk if he or she has reached .08.

The newly-trained officers spent the rest of the afternoon field-testing the intoxicated paramedics for how they responded to the three standard field tests.

By the way, those CALIFORNIA dui tests, which are now considered by junk scientists as somewhat reliable and expediently used by California DUI prosecutors for use in court cases are:

horizontal eye movement;

walking and turning;

and standing on one foot.

CALIFORNIA dui attorneys justifiably question their motives and the accuracy of these acrobatics.

California DUI lawyers just learned Palm Springs police will be conducting a sobriety and drivers license checkpoint Saturday at an undisclosed location, according to a press release. The California DUI checkpoint will conform to U.S. Constitutional standards.

The California DUI checkpoint is part of the "Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest!" annual nationwide enforcement effort to crack down on impaired driving and reduce roadway fatalities.

According to the California DUI release, in California, the effort is supported by $31 million in ads funded directly or indirectly through Congress. The ads are targeted to young male drivers and motorcycle riders who are the most common perpetrators.

Sheriff’s officials will be setting up a California DUI checkpoint in Victorville Friday and Saturday nights, according to authorities.


In an effort to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol-involved crashes, San Bernardino County sheriff’s Victorville station officials will be looking for motorists who may be driving under the influence of alcohol, California DUI officials said.


Officials hope the California DUI checkpoint will deter motorists from driving after consuming alcohol or taking drugs.


Deputies will also be checking drivers licenses at the California DUI checkpoint, according to officials.


The public is encouraged to call 911 if they see an impaired driver, according to California DUI attorneys.


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San Diego California DUI lawyers are told the Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol will conduct a San Diego California DUI sobriety checkpoint in Vista on Saturday night, officials said.

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Detective's false testimony leads to dismissal of L.A. murder case
A judge grants the district attorney's request to release Saul Eady, who was suspected in a 2005 shooting. But police recordings contradict the cop who placed Eady and another man at the scene.

False testimony by a Los Angeles police officer led a judge on Monday to throw out a case against a man accused of attempted murder -- the second time in recent months that an LAPD officer's testimony has torpedoed a prosecution.

Saul Eady, who has spent three years in custody, was released Monday after Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Sterling granted a request from the district attorney's office to dismiss the case. The abrupt ending came after Eady's lawyer confronted the prosecution's key witness, Det. David Friedrich, with Los Angeles Police Department radio recordings that contradicted Friedrich's account of a stakeout.

Michael Yglecias, the head deputy district attorney involved in the decision to seek the dismissal, said he did not believe Friedrich had intentionally lied on the stand. He attributed the contradictions to "faulty recollections" and the officer's poor documentation of the incident -- documentation that omitted crucial details.

"I believe this officer did the best he could, but unfortunately mistakes were made and we lacked confidence in the persuasiveness of our case," Yglecias said. "We still have a belief in Eady's guilt, which made for an agonizing decision."

Greg Apt, Eady's attorney, was far more critical, accusing Friedrich in court of lying on the stand.


"I expect that there will be shades of the truth told in a trial," Apt said in an interview. "But we rely on certain foundational things -- that someone is not going to tell a straight-out lie. This is very frustrating and disturbing."

In May 2005, the LAPD's Special Investigation Section, an elite group of plainclothes detectives, received a tip that several men were plotting to use a van to carry out a string of crimes. Eady and another man, Justin Montgomery, were said to be members of the group. Friedrich staked out the van on August Street in Baldwin Hills in a surveillance vehicle while other members of the unit waited in cars nearby.

On May 9, three men drove the van into an alley to confront a suspected gang rival and opened fire. They missed their target, raced back to the Baldwin Hills neighborhood and went into an apartment building. Police locked down the street and searched the building but found none of the suspects. Eady and Montgomery were arrested days later.

At a preliminary hearing, and later at the trial, the prosecution relied heavily on Friedrich's testimony to prove the men's involvement. Friedrich told jurors that he had seen Eady and Montgomery enter the van, saw Montgomery behind the steering wheel as he made a left turn and saw two men who appeared to be Eady and Montgomery flee after the van returned.

Jurors were evenly split in Eady's first trial, which ended in a hung jury. Montgomery was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The district attorney's office decided to retry Eady. As part of his preparation for the second trial, Apt subpoenaed the LAPD for any audio recordings of radio communications made during the incident. He received three hours of recordings from the radio channel used by the detectives.

The tapes, Apt said, lay out a different and far more confusing story than the one Friedrich told in court. In the recordings, Friedrich, an officer overhead in a helicopter and others on the ground tried to keep tabs on several men who were milling about and getting into and out of the van.

Friedrich, Apt said, never positively identified Eady on the tapes, telling other officers that one of the men dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt and jeans "could be Eady." Friedrich also expressed confusion on the tapes about whether the men they thought were Eady and Montgomery had exited the van before it left August Street, while the officer in the helicopter is heard saying at one point that the men had, in fact, "unloaded," or gotten out of the van. The tapes also revealed that the van did not make a left turn as Friedrich had testified, raising doubts about how he could have seen Montgomery behind the wheel.

Last week, the detective took the stand again in Eady's second trial and repeated his earlier version of what he saw. On Thursday, during cross-examination, Apt asked Friedrich if he would expect recordings of the incident to support his account. Hilary Williams, the prosecutor in the case, asked for a recess. After listening to the tapes over the weekend and discussing it with Yglecias, she returned to court Monday and requested the dismissal.

LAPD Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, who oversees the department's detectives, said he had directed his staff to do "a complete review" of the case.

Montgomery's lawyer, Dale Atherton, said the tapes undermine his client's conviction. Atherton says he plans to argue Montgomery's release from prison.

"He was calm, he was cool, he appeared totally credible," Atherton recalled of Friedrich's testimony. "He spoke right into the microphone and lied. He didn't blink."

Steve Meister, a lawyer provided for Friedrich by the police union, strenuously disputed those comments, saying that "No amount of chest-pounding and assertions . . . are going to make David Friedrich into a liar."

Eady's case echoes that of Guillermo Alarcon Jr., a grocery store worker who was exonerated of drug possession charges last month after his lawyer turned up a security tape that contradicted the LAPD officers' account.

Criminal Defense & DUI Defense Lawyers in San Diego are told DUI crackdown begins pre-holiday.

Labor Day weekend is looming, and local authorities have already begun to crack down on motorists believed to be drinking and driving.

Last week, Vacaville police kicked off its anti-DUI campaign within the city. The effort is slated to continue through Sept. 1.

The Vacaville Police Department will be conducting DUI saturation patrols and DUI checkpoints during this campaign, with officers focusing solely on impaired drivers.

The operation is sponsored by the California Office of Traffic Safety and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

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San Diego California drunk driving attorneys are surprised the drinking age is so low at colleges. When a person gets a San Diego DUI and is under the age of 21, different issues arise. www.SanDiegoDUIhelp.com

College presidents from about 100 well known universities across the nation, are calling for a national debate about lowering the drinking age. Presidents who support the so-called "Amethyst Initiative" include Duke, Dartmouth, Ohio State, as well as California schools including Pacific University, Pacific Lutheran University and Pomona College.

Supporters say they don't believe the current law is working and actually encourages a "culture of dangerous, clandestine binge drinking." They say college students will drink no matter what, but do so more dangerously when it's illegal.

The Amethyst movement already faces sharp criticism. The group, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, believes lowering the drinking age would be a huge mistake. Lory Gleason, who heads the Riverside County Chapter, says, "It's very irresponsible. I just think it's going to lead to more drunk driving fatalities..drunk driving crashes." Six years ago, Gleason lost her son, 20-year-old Ryan Smith to a drunk driver. Gleason says the driver was a four-time repeat offender who started drinking in his teens.

Meanwhile, the CEO of MADD says nearly all peer-reviewed studies looking at the change showed raising the drinking age reduced drunk-driving deaths. Both sides, however, agree that binge drinking is a huge problem on college campuses. Research has shown over 40 percent of college students reported at least one symptom of alcohol abuse or dependence.

To learn more about the Amethyst Initiative or which schools have signed on, you can go to http://www.amethystinitiative.org/

Antidepressants impair driving ability in the depressed

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Depressed people who take medication such as Prozac to control their condition have a significantly impaired ability to drive, a study has claimed.

In a controlled test, researchers found that a combination of the mental illness and the medication led to the deterioration in their driving ability.

"They are far more affected that people taking antidepressants who did not report continuing symptoms of depression," it said.

The 60 participants were asked to complete a variety of driving manoeuvres, including reacting to brake lights or traffic signals while being distracted by cyclists, speed limit signs, animals or other hazards.

The simulation tested the ability to steer, concentrate and scan the road for obstacles.

The study found that of the 31 participants who were taking anti-depressants, those who reported a high level of depressive symptoms, performed significantly worse on several of the tasks.

Test subjects who were taking the medicines but were not depressed performed no worse than non-medicated individuals.

The research, led by pyschologists Holly J. Dannewitz PhD and Thomas Petros PhD, of the University of North Dakota, found that one's mood plays a greater role than medication in affecting the ability to perform complex tasks.

"Individuals taking antidepressants should be aware of the possible cognitive effects as [they] may affect performance in social academic and work settings," wrote researchers.

"However, it appears that mood is correlated with cognitive performance, more so than medication use."

The results of the study were published yesterday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Americans' use of antidepressant medication has tripled in the last decade and according to the US government, one in ten American women now takes some form of antidepressant drug.

Earlier this month, the National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome (Naps), said that doctors were needlessly prescribing drugs such as Prozac for PMS.

California DUI lawyers are told a 16-year-old girl who died after losing control of her car had been texting on her cell phone moments before the accident.

Kayla Preuss, of Highland, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed. She died of head injuries.

California DUI authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding. But another factor may have contributed to the crash.

Phone records show Preuss was texting just before the accident. Her cell phone, which was flipped open, was found resting on the floorboard by her feet.

Preuss' mother Kelly said she hopes the accident will make other people think before texting and driving.


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San Diego DUI lawyers often hear of how hard SDSU has gotten on routine dui or drunk driving arrests by SDSU police. How did this all come about?

Early-morning raids on apartments and fraternities around San Diego State University on May 6, 2008 led to students corralled into Cox Arena for questioning.

At a news conference, federal, county and campus officials announced that dozens of SDSU students had been snared in a massive drug sting dubbed Operation Sudden Fall. Guns and bags of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy were laid out for the cameras. The court cases stemming from the yearlong undercover operation are wrapping up with much less fanfare. Almost all of the defendants sentenced after pleading guilty to felony charges have been placed on probation or ordered into drug diversion programs.

Some defendants have misdemeanor cases pending. Others received citations or their cases were dismissed. Some were not charged at all.

OPERATION SUDDEN FALL: BY THE NUMBERS
125: Total arrests reported by prosecutors in drug sting

95: SDSU student arrests reported by prosecutors

38: SDSU student arrests reported by the university, contradicting prosecutors' tally

22: SDSU students being expelled

77: Cases handled by the District Attorney's Office

29: Defendants who have pleaded guilty to criminal charges, of the 77 cases

Prosecutors defended the busts and the subsequent publicity.

“It's worthwhile,” said Damon Mosler, chief of the narcotics unit of the District Attorney's Office.

Mosler noted that the investigation was prompted by the fatal cocaine overdose of a 19-year-old SDSU student in May 2007.

While the investigation was under way, a 22-year-old Mesa College student died from a Feb. 26 cocaine overdose in an SDSU fraternity house.

“We put a little bit of pressure on all university officials to say, 'We've got to take this a little more seriously,' ” Mosler said.


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The drug raid generated a media frenzy. The case was widely discussed on the Internet and across the community, and the publicity lingers. Operation Sudden Fall generates more than 47,000 hits on Google. It also has its own entry on Wikipedia.
Within weeks of the sweep, the university launched a public-relations campaign featuring alumni and others praising the school's actions.

President Stephen Weber said the school acted appropriately in contacting federal drug agents and allowing them to pose as students on campus.
“There were very serious consequences to drug abuse on campus, including student deaths,” Weber said. “We had serious reason to believe the health and welfare of students was at risk, and we took action.”

On May 6, authorities reported 96 arrests, 75 of them SDSU students, as a result of the investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and campus police. Officials also seized four pounds of cocaine, 50 pounds of marijuana, $60,000 in cash and three handguns, among other things.

Six fraternities were placed on interim suspension.

A couple of days later, prosecutors revised the total number of arrests to 125 – 95 of them students – since January.

University officials contradicted the numbers provided by prosecutors, saying many students were arrested on drug-related charges unrelated to the federal investigation.

According to SDSU, about 38 student arrests can be attributed to Operation Sudden Fall. Twenty-two students accused of felonies are being expelled. Nine charged with misdemeanors were put on disciplinary probation, and two were suspended for at least a semester.

Five others are still under investigation.

Since the announcement, interim suspensions for three fraternities – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Kappa Theta – have been lifted. Lambda Chi Alpha was expelled in May for unrelated reasons. Theta Chi and Phi Kappa Psi remain on interim suspension.

Deputy District Attorney Shawn Tafreshi provided a list of 77 defendants whose cases were handled by the District Attorney's Office. Twenty-nine have pleaded guilty to criminal charges, most of them felonies.
Charges were dismissed for six defendants on the list, and three were issued citations. No charges were filed for eight. Others are still pending.

Of those charged with felonies, few are likely to serve long sentences in jail or prison.

Kenneth Ciaccio, 19, whom prosecutors described in May as a “major cocaine dealer,” pleaded guilty last month to one felony count of furnishing a controlled substance for sale. Ciaccio is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 4.

Omar Castaneda-Arce, 37, a nonstudent who prosecutors said served as a middleman between students and Mexican drug cartels, has pleaded not guilty to possession of cocaine for sale. Castaneda-Arce's trial is scheduled to begin in October.

The bigger players pretty much went under the radar.

Prosecutors said they weren't surprised that most of the defendants who pleaded guilty to felony charges received little or no jail time. They said such outcomes are common in drug cases when defendants have no criminal history.

“First-time drug dealers are going to get probation,” Mosler said. “The system is designed to give people second chances.”

Mosler said he measures the success of the drug sweep not by prosecutions, but by whether it will deter drug dealers and users on campus. He said he hopes the effort will ultimately prevent more drug-related deaths.

“It's the message, and hopefully it resonates,” Mosler said. Obviously, SDSU is trying to send messages.

Still, it's pretty low-hanging fruit to go in and bust college students for a low amounts of drugs. Weak. There's no indication of a larger problem than at any other big college campus like San Diego State University, California.

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San Diego DUI / DMV hearings - for a possible license suspension - are like mini-DUI trials without a jury, but with much different San Diego DMV rules, San Diego DMV laws and San Diego DMV procedures.

A San Diego DUI / DMV hearing is presided over by a Driver Safety Officer (DMV hearing officer) rather than a real judge, an employee of the DMV not trained in law who acts as both prosecutor and judge. As unfair as it is, she or he can legally object to your evidence, rule on her or his own objection, dually engage your San Diego DUI / DMV lawyer, and admit or not admit either party's evidence.



San Diego Driver Safety Officer offers evidence in the form of documents and/or witnesses. The Driver Safety Officer offers the San Diego drunk driving / DUI police report, DMV records, San Diego DUI alcohol reports and the important San Diego DUI officer's sworn statement entitled a "DS 367." With no Fifth Amendment right at the hearing, your San Diego DUI / DMV attorney usually will not want you to be present at the hearing since the Driver Safety Officer can call you as a witness and force you to testify against yourself if you ill-advisedly appear.



The San Diego DMV Driver Safety Officer's decision will usually be mailed a few days or even weeks after the hearing. A San Diego DMV / DMV suspension can be set aside or sustained. If the San Diego DMV suspension is sustained, the decision can be appealed to the DMV in Sacramento and/or to the San Diego Superior court by filing a San Diego DMV petition for writ of mandamus.




A San Diego DUI lawyer's defenses at an APS hearing are specialized and technical, more so than in criminal court. Frequent San Diego DUI / DMV proof problems - as well as legal, procedural and bureaucratic obstacles - are possible grounds for setting aside the suspension.




Because of the peculiar nature of San Diego DUI / DMV hearings and the absence of an independent San Diego DUI judge to offer some protection, you are strongly advised not to try to represent yourself. Because these are not San Diego DUI criminal proceedings, San Diego County public defenders are unavailable.




Your San Diego DUI / DMV defense attorney has just 10 CALENDAR DAYS after the DUI arrest to call the San Diego DMV Driver Safety Office to timely demand a hearing. You waive your right to a hearing after the 10 day deadline is up.



San Diego DMV may not be able to schedule a hearing before your 30-day temporary license expires. Your San Diego DUI / DMV lawyer will request a Notice of Stay of the 30-day temporary license until a San Diego DMV hearing is provided and a San Diego DMV decision is actually rendered.







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Former Sacramento Sacramento Superior Court clerk Fernando Catlin has been sentenced to five years in state prison for his role in altering court records in drunken driving cases, the District Attorney's Office said.

Catlin was assigned to enter data relating to active DUI cases.

"Obstructing justice is a serious crime that must have significant consequences," DeFormer Sacramento Superior Court clerk Fernando Catlin has been sentenced to five years in state prison for his role in altering court records in drunken driving cases, the District Attorney's Office said.

Catlin was assigned to enter data relating to active DUI cases.

"Obstructing justice is a serious crime that must have significant consequences," Deputy District Attorney Don Steed said in a prepared statement issued Thursday. "In this case, Catlin was especially culpable given that he was a trusted member of the judicial system."

Investigators linked seven false case dismissals to court orders and computer entries made by Catlin.

Co-defendant Hector Whitley is accused of offering DUI defendants to arrange for dismissals through an associate he knew at the court in return for money.

Whitley's statement and other evidence linked the payoffs to Catlin, prosecutors said.

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Big California DUI crackdown coming: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's ``Drunk Driving: Over the Limit, Under Arrest'' campaign will involve sobriety checkpoints and other enforcement measures to catch impaired drivers, said California DUI lawyers.

She said Riverside County's 30 law enforcement agencies -- which include municipal police departments, the sheriff's department and California Highway
Patrol -- will be adding patrols and setting up checkpoints for the duration of the campaign, which ends on Labor Day.

The anti-DUI operations are funded, in part, by a $700,000 federal grant, Offficer Haverkamp said.

In 2006, there were 1,597 alcohol-related traffic deaths in California, and more than 31,000 people were injured in DUI crashes.

``All too often, innocent law-abiding people suffer tragic consequences and the loss of loved ones due to this careless disregard for human life,'' said Riverside police Chief Russ Leach. ``We'll be especially vigilant during high-risk nighttime hours when impaired drivers are most likely to be on our roads.''

According to national data, 32 percent of motor vehicle driving fatalities are caused by motorists who get behind the wheel with a blood-alcohol concentration of .08 or above. In California and every other state, plus the District of Columbia, it's illegal to operate a motor vehicle with a .08 BAC or higher.

``Driving impaired is simply not worth all the consequences,'' Haverkamp said. ``Pre-plan your special events by selecting a designated driver before the event.''

California Office of Traffic Safety Director Christopher Murphy said law enforcement officers often rely on law-abiding drivers to ``report drunk drivers by calling 911.''

``Drunk or other dangerous driving is an emergency, where we encourage other drivers to safely call in,'' Murphy said.

Haverkamp said DUI violators face jail time, huge fines, revocation of their licenses, and the collateral costs associated with legal representation, lost work and strain on family and friends.

The first sobriety checkpoints in the county are scheduled for Saturday in Corona and Riverside, followed by multiple enforcement operations in Blythe, Coachella, La Quinta, Murrieta and Palm Springs, according to California DUI attorneys.

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For many years, there's been talk about the potential hazards of using a cell phone.

One report would say there was a risk of brain cancer; another would follow saying there was no harm from the relatively low-powered radio signals from the phone. Then the back-and-forth would start all over again.

It continues today. Recently Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said his research shows it is possible that cell phone radiation raises risks for some relatively rare cancers.

But if the arguments are similar today, cell phone use has changed dramatically. Cell phones were an expensive luxury a decade or so ago. Air time was expensive. Most folks only used them when a land line wasn't available.

These days, everyone has a cell phone — including kids who, according to Herberman, are especially vulnerable to the hazards of radiation. Many people use them constantly, to the point of dropping land line service entirely.

So, for many people, exposure to any potential health hazard has grown from a few hours a month to a few hours a day.

Herberman's research isn't the last word, but it's still worth noting, given the amount of exposure most of us have.

Luckily, we can lessen any hazard from radiation. Bluetooth earpieces allow hands-free operation and keep the cell phone's antenna away from our heads. Some doctors think something as simple as switching the cell phone from one ear to another several times during a long conversation will keep radiation from being concentrated in one part of the brain.

The risks are realistic enough to make it smart to do what you can to reduce the radiation.

But the real kicker to all this is that there is a real and well-documented health risk from cell phones, one so strong that it makes any radiation risk pale in comparison.

A University of Utah psychologist, David Strayer, has found that people using cell phones behind the wheel are more dangerous than if they were driving drunk.

You'd think the precaution I just suggested — using an earpiece to talk hands-free — would remove much of the driving risk. After all, I've watched my real estate agent wife fumble through a purse large enough to hold a small dog in search of her cell phone while driving.

But Strayer's research found that the risk of driving and talking on the cell phone is about the same regardless of the use of a hands-free phone.

Here's the deal, at least according to Strayer as quoted in a Los Angeles Times article: While your computer can handle several chores at one time, your brain can't.

"There are limits to how much we can multi-task, and that combination of cell phone chatting and driving exceeds the limits," Strayer said.

Some states recognize the danger. Motorists in California and in several other states are prohibited from talking on hand-held cellphones while driving.

The loophole is that they can still use headsets and speakers or, incredibly, send text messages while driving.

But the hand-held ban is at least a start. I recently read a New York Times story about a study done by Jed Kolko, an economist with the Public Policy Institute of California. He studied traffic deaths in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., before and after bans on hand-held cell phones.

He thinks California will have 300 fewer traffic deaths a year because of the ban. California averages about 4,000 traffic deaths annually, so that's a heck of a decrease.

The cell phone isn't going away, nor are chatty drivers.

All you can do is control your own actions, and putting the phone aside while driving is a good start. Talk is cheap these days, but it can kill.


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California DUI law enforcement officers and attorneys who are arguing for the State throughout the implementation of California DUI roadblocks disagreed that the State’s interest was specifically intended to stop drunk driving. Consequently, the legality of California DUI roadblocks has been upheld. But just recently, law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys have bragged publicly that California DUI roadblocks yield an astronomical amount of revenue from traffic infractions discovered after stopping vehicles at California DUI checkpoints.

California DUI roadblocks usually yield approximately four California DUI arrests and even less California DUI convictions. Law enforcement officers have guidelines that they would have to follow in implementing these California DUI roadblocks. The California DUI roadblock guidelines include a specific method of selection of vehicles, insurance that intrusion on the motorists is kept to a minimum, providing a written set of actions outlining the procedures of the California DUI roadblock and proper lighting and notification requirements on the roadway so as not to startle motorists. If the police officer failed to adhere to these requirements upon arresting you in a California DUI roadblock in Los Angeles, California, this would often result in evidence being excluded.

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San Diego California DUI attorneys know that your drunk driving police officer will say he or she smelled the Odor of Alcohol on your breath. Is that such a big deal at a DMV hearing? Not really.

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The San Diego DUI / DMV hearing for a possible license suspension is like a mini-DUI trial without a jury, but with much different San Diego DMV rules, San Diego DMV laws and San Diego DMV procedures. The San Diego DUI / DMV hearing is presided over by a Driver Safety Officer (DMV hearing officer) rather than a real judge, an employee of the DMV not trained in law who acts as both prosecutor and judge. As unfair as it is, she or he can legally object to your evidence, rule on her or his own objection, dually engage your San Diego DUI / DMV lawyer, and admit or not admit either party's evidence.



The San Diego Driver Safety Officer offers evidence in the form of documents and/or witnesses. The Driver Safety Officer offers the San Diego drunk driving / DUI police report, DMV records, San Diego DUI alcohol reports and the important San Diego DUI officer's sworn statement entitled a "DS 367." With no Fifth Amendment right at the hearing, your San Diego DUI / DMV attorney usually will not want you to be present at the hearing since the Driver Safety Officer can call you as a witness and force you to testify against yourself if you ill-advisedly appear.



The San Diego DMV Driver Safety Officer's decision will usually be mailed a few days or even weeks after the hearing. A San Diego DMV / DMV suspension can be set aside or sustained. If the San Diego DMV suspension is sustained, the decision can be appealed to the DMV in Sacramento and/or to the San Diego Superior court by filing a San Diego DMV petition for writ of mandamus.




A San Diego DUI lawyer's defenses at an APS hearing are specialized and technical, more so than in criminal court. Frequent San Diego DUI / DMV proof problems - as well as legal, procedural and bureaucratic obstacles - are possible grounds for setting aside the suspension.




Because of the peculiar nature of San Diego DUI / DMV hearings and the absence of an independent San Diego DUI judge to offer some protection, you are strongly advised not to try to represent yourself. Because these are not San Diego DUI criminal proceedings, San Diego County public defenders are unavailable.




Your San Diego DUI / DMV attorney has just 10 CALENDAR DAYS after the DUI arrest to call the San Diego DMV Driver Safety Office to timely demand a hearing. You waive your right to a hearing after the 10 day deadline is up.



If your San Diego DUI / DMV attorney has not been retained within 10 days of the arrest, you should contact the local Driver's Safety Office yourself, request a 5 day extension so you can get a San Diego DUI / DMV Attorney Specialist.




Alternatively, if your request for an extension is denied by the San Diego DMV supervisor, request an In-person hearing, the Discovery (evidence), a Stay (stop) of the Suspension, and the Name of the Driver Safety Officer.




Please ask for the name of the person you speak with. Please do not discuss the reasons why you are contesting the suspension. The San Diego Driver Safety Office is located at 9174 Sky Park Avenue, Suite 200, San Diego (858/627-3901 or fax 858/627-3925).




The San Diego DMV may not be able to schedule a hearing before your 30-day temporary license expires. Your San Diego DUI / DMV lawyer will request a Notice of Stay of the 30-day temporary license until a San Diego DMV hearing is provided and a San Diego DMV decision is actually rendered.







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A San Diego DUI solo-vehicle crash on the eastbound Interstate 8 ramp to southbound Interstate 5 was reported at 4:46 a.m., according to San Diego DUI lawyers.

Four people were inside the vehicle when it rolled, and three were taken by paramedics to UCSD Medical Center with critical injuries, a San Diego DUI attorney reported.

Alcohol was a factor in the San Diego DUI crash, the CHP reported.

The transition ramp from eastbound Interstate 8 to southbound 5 was shut down for about an hour-and-a-half following the San Diego DUI crash. SanDiegoDUI.com