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	<title>Washington State DUI Blog | Bellevue, Seattle DUI Attorney &amp; Lawyer</title>
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		<title>A new DUI breath testing machine for Washington State?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington State is slowly moving forward with plans to deploy new DUI breath testing machines.  The state has already purchased a number of machines, the Draeger 9510, and is in the process of testing them before deploying them to be used in actual DUI arrests.  The state is buying new breath test machines because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, DUI and the new cell phone law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of June 10, 2010, Washington State has a new cell phone law.  The publicity surrounding this law has mainly focused on the fact that the new law changes cell phone violations from a “secondary offense” for which a police officer may not stop you, to a “primary offense” for which a police officer may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUI arrest leads to loss of custody of kids?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, Washington State legislature amends the DUI laws in an effort to make the DUI laws even tougher or to “tune up ” the laws. This year’s legislative session resulted in the passage of HB 3124, a law that went into effect June 10, 2010. The law requires that a police officer who makes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juries Care About Fairness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished a trial in Bellingham Municipal Court. The charge was Disorderly Conduct. The situation was this: my client was out with some friends in Bellingham. They were out in the street getting ready to head home at the end of the night when three young men began hassling them, harassing them, and calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking on Cell Phone Leads to DUI arrest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Experience has shown that many DUI arrests result from the police stopping a car for reasons that have nothing to do with driving under the influence. For instance, many DUI arrests in Washington State result from an investigation following an officer stopping a vehicle for speeding, failing to use a signal, or similar rather innocuous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a DUI as a Minor Can Affect You After Age 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question: I am 20 years old and recently got a DUI. My license is suspended for one year. Will I be able to go to the bar when I turn 21? Answer: The first thing to consider is whether you are allowed to enter a bar at all based on your DUI sentence. When you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Days for Refusing a DUI Breath Test?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the relatively unknown aspects of Washington State DUI law is that the penalties for violations of certain mandatory requirements of probation will result in mandatory sentences that the judge must impose. Take the case of an individual for whom this is the first DUI conviction. Either one or two days of jail time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes to Deferred Prosecution Law Can Affect Your Sentence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some people, it makes sense to enter into a deferred prosecution after getting charged with a DUI in Washington. To qualify for a deferred prosecution, chemical addiction or alcoholism must play a significant part in why you broke the law. After acknowledging this, you must commit to a significant program of chemical dependency treatment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meteors, Cosmic Rays and DUI defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent happenings (March, 2010) reveal some unusual defenses to DUI charges. First, there was the decision of the Court of Appeals in State of Washington vs. Richard Charles Tracer, No. 37812-4-II. This was a Washington State DUI/Vehicular Assault case where the Court of Appeals discussed the propriety of the legal procedure employed by the trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EtG UA’s in Whatcom County and the City of Bellingham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been arrested for a DUI in Whatcom County or the City of Bellingham it&#8217;s likely that you have been placed on pretrial supervision. This means that you are reporting to a probation officer while your case is pending resolution. One of the many conditions of your pretrial supervision is that you submit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Tub Your Way to a DUI Conviction?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington State DUI laws are among the strictest in the nation. Like most states, the legal limit is .08% but the reading is produced by testing breath alcohol, not blood alcohol. Breath alcohol does not impair a driver; it is only alcohol in the blood that impairs a driver. Thus, a blood test would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBD Partners Speak at Evidence Boot Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fox Bowman Duarte partners Francisco Duarte and Diego Vargas participated in a seminar sponsored by the Washington State Bar Asssociation on February 25, 2010: &#8220;Evidence and Objection Boot Camp.&#8221; The well-attended seminar highlighted the best practices of handling exhibits, witnesses and objections. These are necessary skills for any attorney who will take a DUI or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug DUI cop’s opinion not automatically admissible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officers who have special training to detect whether a DUI driver is impaired by drugs are known as “DRE” or “Drug Recognition Experts.” Washington State has a growing number of officers who have received this training and DUI officers in Seattle and King County are emphasizing the detection and arrest of drivers who are suspected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finger Alcohol DUI Test to Replace Breath Testing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesswire.com recently reported that a company is developing technology that detects a person&#8217;s alcohol level by measuring having the subject place a finger on a device known as the TruTouch 2000.  The device was announced as being aimed at industry and at law enforcement such as Washington state DUI squads for use in DUI trials. There, accurate measurement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State’s Senate passes bill requiring law enforcement officers to be honest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington State Senate has just passed a bill requiring law enforcement officers to be honest in the discharge of their duties. The language of the bill can be found at the following URL: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2010&#38;bill=6590. Unfortunately, law enforcement officers are not always honest. Sometimes they exagerate the truth but sometimes they tell out right lies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUI Jury Renders Verdict on System of Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I represented a client who was charged with DUI in the Seattle area after a detention and arrest by a local police officer. A review of the police report led me to believe that this could be a difficult case. All the &#8220;signs&#8221; police are trained to look for were in this report: Weaving, speeding, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Enter a DUI Deferred Prosecution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my clients come to my office convinced that they want to pursue a DUI deferred prosecution. Most of them have heard about this option from friends or family. Some have even been steered in that direction from the arresting officer. Almost none of them, however, have any idea what this program actually entails. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don’t police videotape DUI arrests?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you see a DUI arrest documented on one of the police television police shows, there is always a videotape of the driving, the field sobriety tests, and other parts of the processing.  Sometimes, the video also includes the actual breath test.  People expect that DUI arrests will be recorded. Most people are shocked, however,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Court Lets DUI Driver Write Off Car Damage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Tax Court last week allowed the driver of a car to write off thousands of dollars of damage after he totalled it while under the influence. It&#8217;s not unusual to deduct property damage (this is claimed as a casualty loss deduction on Form 4684) from your taxes. What is unusual is the circumstances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can non-alcoholic beer be consumed while driving?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the Washington state Liquor Control Board Web site, non-alcoholic beer &#8221; is classified as non-alcoholic (meaning it has less than 0.5% alcohol by volume as shown on the label), it is not considered to be liquor and can be sold to anyone. So, can non-alcoholic beer, containing less than 0.5% alcohol by volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snohomish County DUI Emphasis Patrols “Night of a Thousand Stars”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 11, 2009 was the evening of the annual &#8220;Night of a Thousand Stars&#8221; kickoff in Snohomish County. The name derives from the badges worn by the reported nearly 1,000 DUI officers who patrolled throughout Washington state on this date, looking for drunk drivers. The Night of a Thousand Stars is part of a continued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUI accidents involving police bound to lead to increased DUI efforts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every holiday season, Washington State police agencies step up DUI patrols as part of an increased DUI awareness and enforcement program. In most cases, a DUI arrest happens after an officer observes some driving error and pulls the vehicle over.  Two recently reported cases are unique in that the police vehicles were struck by vehicles and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diego Vargas speaks to over 300 lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diego Vargas was invited to speak at the annual seminar &#8220;Defending DUIs&#8221; that was held on December 11, 2009. The committee selecting speakers asked Diego to lecture on &#8220;Winning the Impossible Case&#8221; due to the numerous cases he has won that were referred to him by other lawyers who considered the cases impossible to defend. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DUI Emphasis Patrols Increased in Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the holidays are upon us, all of the local police agencies will be conducting holiday DUI emphasis patrols. This means an increased presence of law enforcement on the freeways, highways, county roads and city streets whose sole mission is to detect and arrest drivers who are under the influence of alcohol. As always, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I take a blood test instead of a breath test?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a person is arrested for a misdemeanor DUI and taken to the police station the police will usually ask: “Will you take the breath test?” The answer to this question can greatly influence the complications that will arise from the DUI arrest, including length of license suspension and also the mandatory minimum DUI criminal [...]]]></description>
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