Understanding the Consequences: DUI with Child in Car in Colorado
Getting arrested for a DUI is already bad news, but if you happen to have a child in the car at the time, your charges become much more serious. Under Colorado law, driving drunk with a child in tow could net you charges of dependency and neglect, even child abuse. This aggravating factor can result in your […]
Checkpoint Colorado: 100 Days of DUI Checkpoints
Memorial Day weekend kicked off another period of strict DUI enforcement under the banner of “Checkpoint Colorado,” a 100-day period meant to combat the rise in impaired driving that often follows Memorial Day. Until Labor Day, you can expect to see more patrol cars on the road looking for the telltale signs of drunk or high drivers: […]
Foggy Focuses Promote Marijuana Safety in Colorado
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is using specially designed Ford Focuses (an unexpected choice; we would have gone with the Nissan Leaf) to promote its “Drive High, Get a DUI” Campaign. The two vehicles are stationed at public events and designed with social media in mind; CDOT hopes that event attendees will take pictures […]
Assessing the Impact of Colorado’s Felony DUI Law: Are Offenders Escaping Prison Time?
In August 2015, Colorado implemented a significant legal change, elevating a fourth DUI conviction to a felony offense. The primary aim of this new legislation was to impose stricter penalties on repeat DUI offenders and bring Colorado’s drunk driving laws in line with other states that had already established felony DUI laws. With over a […]
College Students and DUI/DWI
For many young people, college is the beginning of independence, which can be as stressful as it is liberating. The rigors of college life – classes, homework, jobs, pressure from parents and society, the nightmares of showing up late to class in only underwear (you will continue having these nightmares for the rest of your […]
Boozing Boys in Blue: Two Officers Arrested for DUI in Denver
It has been a rough time for Denver Police Department’s boys in blue – in the last three weeks, two of Colorado’s finest have been arrested for alleged drunk driving. The first incident occurred on February 14 in Castle Rock, wherein the DPD officer in question was pulled over and subsequently charged with DUI, careless driving […]
Will HB 1043 Curb Repeat Drunk Drivers?
Colorado lawmakers are one step closer to increasing the penalties for repeat DUI offenders after the House Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced HB 1043. Under the current set of DUI laws, repeat offenders face only misdemeanor charges, even after multiple convictions. If HB 1043 passes into law, serial drunk drivers could be convicted of a felony after their […]
The Heat is On: Colorado’s Year-Round DUI Enforcement Campaigns
You may have encountered those unmistakable orange signs on the highway, alerting drivers to the vigilant “The Heat is On” DUI campaigns. But did you know that Colorado conducts these DUI enforcement operations a staggering 12 times each year, with a particular focus on holiday weekends? As adults trade giant Butterfingers and boxes of Nerds […]