Chicago is now part of the electric scooter nationwide revolution. Sadly, Only two weeks into the city’s new electric scooter pilot program, Chicago marked it’s first electric scooter related murder. On June 26, 2019, a 17 year old got shot and killed in Humboldt Park while riding on an electric scooter. It’s always a few […]
Chicago DUI, DUI, Illinois DUI, Scooter DUI
AGGRAVATED (FELONY) DUI VICTORY/NOT GUILTY CS was facing possible prison on a felony DUI charge. There was no choice but to go to trial and win. The risks were high and the odds long, CS was stopped by the police after being seen passed out in her vehicle at a busy intersection. After following […]
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CAN YOU TURN AROUND TO AVOID A DUI CHECKPOINT? You see them around the holidays. Labor Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving. DUI checkpoints popping up on the roads. The United States Supreme Court first upheld the constitutionality of these warrantless, probable cause free stops in 1990. Since then, States crafted their own specific legal rules […]
Chicago DUI, DUI, DUI Checkpoint
With the passage of Public Act 99-697, § 40, as of July 29, 2016, Illinoisans are free to run around with 10 grams or less of marijuana without having to worry about Johnny lawdog. Across the country, more and more States are going beyond decriminalization and straight up legalizing marijuana, not to mention all the […]
Criminal Defense, DUI, Marajuana, Marajuana DUI, search and seizureInterviewer: I guess a question in there, what do you think is their percentage of error in this standardized testing? It sounds like it could be all over the board with what you just said. Robert J. Callahan: There’s so many factors involved. If you have a police officer who has written 1,000 DUIs in […]
CASE DISMISSED, DUI, field sobrietyAC hired our office last February because he had recently become aware of an active warrant for his arrest. He wasn’t sure why a warrant had been issued. We researched the issue for him and learned it was for an old Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol violation. AC didn’t remember ever being arrested for […]
Driving Under the Influence, DUIM.B. was pulled over in August, 2012, by Chicago Police Officers for improper lane usage. Officers claimed they could smell a strong odor of alcohol, his speech sounded slurred and his pupils were dilated which indicated intoxication. Officers ran his name and found that he was driving on a suspended license without insurance. He was […]
DUI, felonyWith the New Year’s holiday just around the corner, it is important that all of us take a moment to remind one another to be safe and smart this holiday season and find a designated driver. Driving drunk can not only land you in jail, it can put the safety of everyone else on the […]
Criminal Defense, Driving, Drunk, DUI, DUI ChargeLast September, Chicago Police, responding to a call, approached G.P. while he sat in his parked car. Once he police began speaking to G.P. they suspected he was under the influence of alcohol. G.P. got out of the car, performed the field sobriety test but refused to blow in the breathalyzer. The police arrested G.P […]
DUI, DUI Illinois, petition to rescindM.B. was pulled over in August, 2012, by Chicago Police Officers for improper lane usage. Officers claimed they could smell a strong odor of alcohol, his speech sounded slurred and his pupils were dilated which indicated intoxication. Officers ran his name and found that he was driving on a suspended license without insurance. He was […]
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