Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” Police from Catawba County, North Carolina arrested a man for drunk driving on a moped nearly two years ago. Aaron Barkley, 34, has since been sentenced as a…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” A 28-year-old from Iowa City, Iowa recently set records after being arrested for drunk driving. The record was not the number of times he’d been arrested, but was instead…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Are breath test results always accurate?” In an odd drunk driving case out of Charlotte, a judge in Mecklenburg County recently accepted a plea deal for a driver only several hours after another judge rejected the identical deal. The plea deal involved…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department say that they have issued more than four-dozen charges to drivers in connection with an overnight checkpoint Saturday and early Sunday morning. Police…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Do I have to perform the field sobriety tests when I’m pulled over for DWI in NC?” A woman from Wilmington, NC has ben charged with drunk driving after she hit a child on a scooter earlier this month. The accident happened on…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” An interesting case in Oregon was recently decided that resulted in one person’s DUI conviction being thrown out and the case remanded for retrial. The defense was an unusual…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Are breath test results always accurate?” North Carolina Department of Transportation officials announced that nearly 1,800 drivers across the state were arrested over the July Fourth holiday period. DOT officials say the huge number of arrests were the result of an important collaboration…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Is there more than one way for police to convict a DWI?” Officials in North Carolina say they have arrested a man and charged him with drunk driving after he crashed into four state trooper vehicles with a child in the back seat.…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?” A new push by the National Transportation Safety Board has some worried about a continuing decline in what amount of alcohol qualifies a driver as impaired. The NTSB recently released a recommendation that said all…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Should I talk to the police?” The Supreme Court handed down a major ruling last month in the Missouri v. McNeely case. The justices decided to reject the argument advocated by Missouri and the Obama administration that officers should never be required to…