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THE USE OF ENERGY DRINKS INCREASES THE RISK OF DRINKING AND DRIVING

A recent study published by renowned University of Florida researchers and picked up on by James Wigmore indicates that the consumption of energy drinks increases a person’s risk of drinking and driving. The University of Florida researchers collected data from Wednesday through Saturday nights at a nearby college bar during April 2008. The researchers divided

DON’T LOWER BLOOD ALCHOHOL CONTENT TO .05%

Lowering the Blood Alcohol Content (“BAC”) for drunk driving from .08% to .05% has been gaining traction in states across the country and the press is starting to pick up on it. On May 14, 2013 NBC News reported that the National Transportation Safety Board (“NTSB”) recommended that all states lower their BAC levels for

STATE COLLEGE DUI CHECKPOINTS LABOR DAY WEEKEND

In an effort to assist you this weekend while you are out celebrating the end of summer, I have attempted to locate any and all checkpoints in and around the State College and Centre County area. Unfortunately, the closet I came to actually locating a specific time and place of a DUI checkpoint in State

THE CASE FOR PROBABLE CAUSE

As I mentioned in the beginning, my main purpose in creating this blog was to provide State College residents and by extension Pennsylvania citizens with information about DUI laws in Pennsylvania and the ways in which State College residents lack of knowledge relating to DUI laws is exploited by State College police to effectuate DUI

WHY ARE STATE COLLEGE POLICE STILL USING BREATHALYZERS?

As is becoming a recurring theme across the country, another district attorney is forced to answer questions about the flawed data obtained from breathalyzers, which begs the question, why are State College and Pennsylvania police still using them? Recently, CBS News aired a national report on the Silcon Valley Mercury News reporting of the San

THE PROBLEMS WITH BREATHALYZERS IN STATE COLLEGE

Breathalyzers are typically the weapon of choice for most State College and Pennsylvania cops in securing a DUI arrest. However, as prominent DUI Pennsylvania attorney, Justin McShane, demonstrates in this video, breathalyzers are not the most reliable of tools. If you do not have six minutes to watch the breathalyzer video above, McShane demonstrates the