Under Texas law, you are considered legally intoxicated if your blood alcohol concentration is over 0.08. According to a recent media story, however, advocates are pushing for Texas to lower that limit to 0.05. And there is precedent for this type of move: Utah. The great state of Utah has recently lowered its limit to […]
Texas state Rep. John Kuempel introduces HB 2152 On February 21, Texas state Rep. John Kuempel, a Republican from Guadalupe County, introduced House Bill 2152. This bill would make it legal for restaurants with a liquor license to deliver alcoholic beverages to “off-premises” consumers. In other words, if you order food from a restaurant via […]
If you are involved in a suspected DWI accident, the police will make every effort to take a blood sample from you for testing purposes. Even if you refuse to consent to such a test, a police officer can obtain a warrant from a magistrate if there is probable cause to suspect you were intoxicated […]
Many Houston DWI arrests begin with a call to 911 or the Department of Public Safety’s motorists helpline. A driver notices another car is making wide turns, swerving across the road, or even driving off the road entirely. The astute driver suspects there may be a drunk driver at the wheel, so she pulls over […]
If you live in Texas and are arrested in Texas on DWI charges, you probably already know that a conviction can result in the loss of your driver’s license. In fact, your license may be suspended up to two years after a first DWI conviction. But what if you are a Texas resident charged or […]
Like most states, Texas has enacted a Dram Shop Act in order to hold businesses that sell alcohol legally responsible for “over-serving” intoxicated customers. Dram shop laws typically come into play in personal injury and wrongful death claims that arise from the actions of an intoxicated individual to whom a business negligently over-served alcohol. While the […]
Colleen Sheehy-Church, the president of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), recently spoke at a conference sponsored by SmartStart, an ignition interlock company, requesting the use of ignition locks for vehicles of drivers who have been convicted of driving while intoxicated (DWI). MADD believes that Texas should change its DWI laws and require that first-time DWI […]
The main element of any accusation of a DWI offense by law enforcement is that the person accused of such an offense is, in fact, intoxicated during the time of their arrest. In many cases, when a person is arrested for DWI offense in the state of Texas, they don’t undergo any chemical testing to […]
When it comes to new DWI laws across the country, there are two prevailing schools of thought. One says we need more laws while the other says we don’t, we need to enforce the ones we’ve got. Guess which school is winning. Here are the laws actively being discussed at various levels of government and […]
In recent posts, we’ve noted how many drunk driving penalties have increased in severity in the last few years, and also discussed some of the escalating penalties that can apply to repeat drunk driving offenders under Texas law. One example is the Driver Responsibility law, which essentially raised the amount of fines — akin to […]
