Ninth State Now Permits Saliva Tests at DWI Stops

On behalf of The Law Office of Jason A. Korner posted in DWI / Drunk Driving Charges on Friday, August 9, 2013. Law enforcement officials have a variety of tools at their disposal when it comes to combating impaired driving. For example, as we discussed in a post just last week, the Missouri State Highway Patrol frequently deploys both sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols in an attempt to make the roads as safe as possible or, in other words, make as many DWI arrests as possible. Interestingly, our neighbor to the south recently unveiled a new -- and controversial --...

07 August

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NFL Player DWI Arrest Breakdown from the 2013 Offseason

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By Jason Korner of The Law Office of Jason A. Korner posted in DWI / Drunk Driving Charges on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Nine NFL players were arrested for DWI or DUI related charges between the Superbowl in February and the start of training camps at the end of July. To put this into prospective, at the beginning of training camp NFL rosters are allowed to carry 90 players, which means there are a total of 2,880 players on NFL rosters through most of the offseason. Even though it seems like the news is filled with NFL...

02 August

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Highway Patrol Announces DWI Efforts for August

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On behalf of The Law Office of Jason A. Korner posted in DWI / Drunk Driving Charges on Friday, August 2, 2013. The Missouri State Highway Patrol recently announced that it is planning saturation efforts in multiple counties designed to stop and prevent driving while intoxicated. Specifically, Highway Patrol officers will be conducting sobriety checkpoints at different times throughout August in Jefferson, St. Charles and Lincoln counties. The checkpoints will be administered by MSHP officers in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies. According to the MSHP, these specific counties were chosen for focus efforts due to the particularly high number...

31 July

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Judge Gives Former St. Louis Cop Probation for Off-Duty Crash

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On behalf of The Law Office of Jason A. Korner posted in DWI / Drunk Driving Charges on Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Earlier this week, a sentence was handed down in a drunk driving case involving a former officer with the St. Louis Police Department who was involved in a serious accident during the holiday season two years ago. According to the court documents, the then 27-year-old police officer drove his vehicle the wrong way down a one-way street in South City during the early morning hours of December 24, 2011 before colliding with a patrol car being driven by...