The holiday season is here, and the end of the year is approaching fast. Many people will celebrate with their friends and loved ones between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve – and those celebrations may include drinking wine, eggnog, or other alcoholic beverages. Some of them will then get behind the wheel, thinking they can [...]

Tennessee Code Annotated section 55-10-406 has seen some major changes in the last legislative session. 2017 Tennessee Laws Public Chapter 304 wholly repeals the old statutory section and replaces it with a new scheme. The new statute is convoluted, so we want to present a streamlined view of the new statute and what it means [...]

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam recently saw both chambers of the State legislature pass his plan to improve his state. “The Improving Manufacturing, Public Roads, and Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy” (or “IMPROVE”) Act is intended to improve and maintain Tennessee’s economy and competiveness for the future. It makes a lot of changes to how the [...]

You’ve been out to dinner with some friends, and you had a drink or two. You’re sure you’re fine: you ate a big meal, you were there for hours, and you feel sober. As you’re driving home, you see the ominous line of cars and flashing blue lights and realize you’ve stumbled into a DUI [...]

It is illegal to drive while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In order to deter and punish individuals convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI), a number of states have mandated that people convicted of a drunk driving charge will need to install an ignition interlock device in [...]

So you were out drinking with your friends and you were fairly confident that you were sober enough to get home and get yourself into the bed, but then you saw the flashing blue lights in your rear-view mirror and you knew it was over. If you have been charged with a DUI in Tennessee, [...]

For the last few years, Tennessee has been running “no refusal” campaigns around the holidays in various parts of the state. (So far, Sevier County has escaped participation.) The supposed goal of the campaigns is to stop people from drinking and driving. In reality, these campaigns attempt to short-cut important constitutional protections by essentially forcing [...]

Most people don’t know that you can be charged with a federal DUI – but you can, and its penalties and fines can be far worse than if you are charged by any local officer or Tennessee State Trooper. Federal charges – even DUI charges – need to be defended by an attorney who is [...]

WJHL ran a story recently about an issue in Sullivan County, where at least a hundred DUI cases may end up being dismissed because the county neglected to provide a detached and neutral magistrate to determine whether officers who subjected citizens to warrantless arrests had probable cause supporting these arrests. Apparently instead of properly presenting [...]