The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, NHTSA, has come up with three “standardized field sobriety tests” for law enforcement to use to determine if someone is under the influence. One of the three tests is the horizontal gaze nystagmus, or HGN, test. (The two others are the walk-and-turn test and…
Field sobriety tests, or FST’s, are exercises, that are used by law enforcement to help determine if a person is under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. If a person performs poorly on the tests, they may be arrested and charged with drunk driving. Prosecutors then use the results of…
If you have a drunk driving conviction in San Diego County, or anywhere in California, and you want to enter into Canada you may be inadmissible and denied entry whether the conviction was for a misdemeanor or a felony. Although you may be criminally inadmissible, you may be able to…
If you have a driving under the influence conviction in San Diego County, or anywhere in California, and you want to enter into Canada you may be denied entry whether the conviction was for a misdemeanor or a felony. Canada may refuse entry to any person who has a criminal…
This is San Diego’s Pride Week and there are many festivities planned for Hillcrest. This year’s theme, Freedom to Love and Marry, is so appropriate after the United States Supreme Court struck down DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and ruled against California’s Proposition 8, effectively allowing the LGBT community…
San Diego is quickly becoming the craft brew capital of the world. Sandiego.org has dubbed San Diego the “Napa of beer” because of the number of craft breweries in the county. Many local tasting rooms, brew pubs and restaurants are now listing on their menus the beer style, the size…
In California, it’s well known that it is unlawful to drive a vehicle while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, a drug or a combination thereof, under California Vehicle Code (VC) Section 23152. In addition, California has “open container laws” which are codified in VC Sections 23221 – 23229.…
Drunk boating charges were recently brought against Erin Brockovich, an environmental activist whose life was the basis of the self-titled movie, according to examiner.com. She was boating on Lake Mead in Nevada and she caught law enforcement’s attention when she was struggling to dock her boat. After an investigation, she…
San Diego Sheriff’s Department announced a Memorial Day weekend DUI crackdown through their Avoid the 15 DUI Task Force. They will be conducing DUI and driver’s license checkpoints and drunk driving saturation patrols throughout the County of San Diego beginning Friday night and continuing throughout the weekend, especially in the…
California has an “implied consent” rule regarding chemical testing that is found in Vehicle Code Section 23612. This vehicle code section states, “Any person who drives a motor vehicle is deemed to have given his or her consent to chemical testing of his or her blood or breath for the…