Aggravated DUI
Home › Blog › Arizona Aggravated Drug DUI: State v. Diakhate (2026) Arizona Aggravated Drug DUI Conviction Upheld: What State v. Diakhate Means for Arizona Drivers 📅 Published: June 24, 2026 ✍️ By Gordon Thompson, Arizona DUI Attorney ⚖️ Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One 📋 Case at a Glance Case Name: State…
Arizona DUI Case Law — May 2025 Arizona Court Upholds Wrong-Way DUI Conviction Despite Late Disclosure of 911 Recordings: State v. Reyes (2025) By Gordon Thompson, DUI & Criminal Defense Attorney · Phoenix, Arizona · Published June 2025 Decision: Affirmed — Arizona Court of Appeals, First Division | 1 CA-CR 24-0431 | May…
Arizona Portable Breath Test (PBT) in DUI Cases: What Every Driver Must Know If an Arizona police officer pulls you over and suspects drunk driving, one of the first things they may ask you to do is blow into a small handheld device called a Portable Breath Test — or PBT. Most drivers have no…
Arizona DUI & Criminal Defense | gordonthompsonattorney.net NOTICE: NOT FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATION. UNDER ARIZONA RULE OF THE SUPREME COURT 111(c), THIS DECISION IS NOT PRECEDENTIAL AND MAY BE CITED ONLY AS AUTHORIZED BY RULE. Arizona DUI Defense › Case Analysis › 2026 Arizona DUI Case Review: What State v. Kisemh Teaches Defendants…
Home › DUI › Blog › State v. Driggs – Aggravated DUI Arizona State v. Driggs: What an Arizona Aggravated DUI Conviction Looks Like — And What You Can Learn From It Case: State v. Driggs, No. 2 CA-CR 2024-0057 — Arizona Court of Appeals, Filed January 7, 2026 This post analyzes a recent Arizona…
Arizona Wrong Way DUI Law In 2018 the Legislature added a new felony DUI offense, 28 A.R.S.§ 1383.A.5, Driving the Wrong Way on a Highway While Impaired. The mandatory minimum sentence includes 4 months in State Prison. If an impaired driver is driving the right way the minimum penalty could be 1 day. If the…
Defendant’s 2 Agg DUI convictions upheld but sentence reduced State v. Seantain Leroy Cook Seantain Leroy Cook appealed his 2 aggravated DUI convictions. The basis for the cases was driving with a suspended license in two separate DUI incidents in 2021. The DUIs were first charged as misdemeanors in a municipal court. Mr. Cook’s suspended…
In 2018 the Arizona Legislature enacted a new DUI felony which made it a Class 4 Felony to drive the wrong way on a “highway” while in violation of Arizona’s DUI laws. The mandatory minimum sentence includes 4 months in the Arizona State Prison, which in no way can be waived. The reason offered by…
HB2296 would modify 28 A.R.S. § 1383.A.5, Wrong Way Driving DUI Felony, which makes the section referring to all “highways” applicable to “Controlled Access Highways or State Highways.” As previously posted, although the proposed changes would help limit the applicability of the statute to what the Legislature intended (but did not explicitly say) when they…