People who have been arrested for DUI in Delaware often wonder why they were pulled over. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or “NHTSA”, there are four categories of cues that signal to a cop that you might be impaired. T...
Read MoreThe short answer is, “It depends”! If you’re convicted of a DUI in Delaware, there is a mandatory loss of driver’s license. The length of revocation depends upon the blood alcohol content (BAC) and the DUI conviction itself; ...
Read MoreIf you were arrested and charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI aka DWI) in the State of Delaware Wednesday, November 27 through Sunday, December 1, 2013, you will find that just about all the law firms are closed. Never fear – the Delaware DU...
Read MoreThe State of Delaware’s news webpage carried a story Wednesday stating that a DUI Checkpoint is planned for the vicinity of Newark, Delaware for this evening, September 6, 2013. The news story also indicated that 11 arrests were made at DUI checkpoin...
Read MoreThe Delaware Office of Highway Safety issued a press release stating that DUI checkpoints are scheduled for Newport and Rehoboth Beach Friday, August 30, 2013. It should be noted that DelawareOnline, as of the time of this post, was reporting that th...
Read MoreThe National Transportation Safety Board issued a report on Tuesday recommending that states adopt a new Blood-Alcohol Concentration limit of .05 instead of .08. The recommendation indicated that the NTSB estimates reducing the legal BAC from ....
Read MoreYes. When you are arrested for driving under the influence in Delaware, there are two proceedings that will be brought against you. The first is the criminal proceeding, which will be in Justice of the Peace Court, Court of Common Pleas, ...
Read MoreAfter getting a new DUI case, we often wish we could have spoken to our client before the arrest occurred. If we had, maybe we would have prevented the arrest from even occurring, or maybe we could have given some useful tips that would have helped i...
Read MoreThe State of Delaware has announced that it will be conducting DUI checkpoints to screen for drunk drivers the weekend of October 19 and 20, 2012. There will be three DUI / DWI checkpoints in Delaware this coming weekend as follows: 1) On Friday, Oct...
Read MoreDelaware’s Office of Highway Safety has announced two DUI checkpoints for Friday, September 28, 2012. One will be located in Harrington, DE and one will be located in Wilmington, DE. For those of you traveling to Dover International Spee...
Read MoreAnswer: In Delaware, when you are arrested for driving under the influence or DUI, the investigating officer will seize your driver's license and give you a blue and white piece of paper that is a temporary driver's license. You have to...
Read MoreThe State of Delaware erected a giant billboard on I-95 just South of Wilmington to let us all know how many DUI arrests are being made in our little state. When I saw this billboard, I was surprised at the number of DUIs reported. Two thousand ...
Read MoreIf you are charged with the criminal offense of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) on July 4th weekend in Delaware, it is never too soon to start preparing your defense. Matt Stiller will be on-call during July 4th to speak to you if you need i...
Read MoreThe Delaware Office of Highway Safety yesterday announced that this year’s Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign will start this weekend. Checkpoints are scheduled for: Friday June 29th – Newport – (NcCo DUI Task Force) – che...
Read MoreThe State of Delaware has announced that there will be a DUI checkpoint in Newport, Delaware this Friday, May 25. Any motorists driving in the vicinity of Newport, which is a small city south of Wilmington in New Castle County, DE, should be aware th...
Read MoreThe week was done and my client, let’s call him Joe, finally made it to his favorite watering hole. You know police are out in force looking for drunk drivers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. So, Joe didn’t start out inten...
Read MoreIn Delaware on Superbowl Sunday 2012, we had two very unpatriotic DUI checkpoints. They are unpatriotic because in America, we are supposed to have freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution. One such freedom is the right to be free from unnecessary ...
Read MoreThere is the Constitution. There is the Fourth Amendment. There is the right of the people to be free from unwanted interference by the government, in absence of some reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing… Then there are the State of Delaware DUI...
Read MoreAs you may know from my blog posts at https://www.schwartzandschwartz.com I believe that DUI checkpoints are an unconstitutional abuse of state power. DUI checkpoints stop all the citizens unlucky enough to be ensnared, regardless of whether they are...
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