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Search results for "DUI sentences" ...
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DUI Dilemma
This story investigates how drivers with multiple DUI's are still driving, even when their licenses are suspended. In the course of the investigation it was discovered that "DUI enforcement is often a low priority with police, that deals are routinely cut when cases reach the courts, and that even drunk drivers who are sentenced to prison don't always do the time."
Tags: drunk driving; DUI; police; Cleaveland; jail time; drunken driving
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Exceptions the rule for DUI sentences
After an analysis of 22,000 state sentencing records from 1998 to 2000, the Tribune-Review found that "at least one in five people sentenced for a second or subsequent drunken-driving violation avoids going to jail" and "many more serve only a few days behind bars."
Tags: DUI; DUI sentences; repeat offenders; jail; DUI checkpoints; drunk driving; driving under the influence; sentencing
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Deadly Indifference (followed by Sobering Indifference)
A Tampa Tribune investigation revealed that "Florida motorists flee crash scenes to avoid drunken driving charges, abandoning dying victims. By the time police catch drivers, they're sober, and likely to escape a prison sentence.... They find unlikely conspirators: judges. Florida judges don't use all the tools at their disposal, including the ignition interlock..." The newspaper tracked a year's worth of such cases for this series.
Tags: drunk driving; police; Florida; cars; crashes; fatalities OUI DUI DWI hit-and-run accidents victims
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No title (id: 9797)
WCNC-TV (Charlotte, N.C.) focuses on one man convicted of drinking and driving four times, involved in a serious accident and sentenced to jail for nine years who was still on the road; the report points up the broader problems with the system and sends the driver back to jail, Nov. 8, 1993.
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No title (id: 5388)
Clarion-Ledger runs series on state's tough new DUI law; finds mandatory sentencing not working because judges were using other obscure laws to routinely suspend sentences, Jan. 18 - 22, 1987.