#Arizona
Each Holiday Season weekend in 2020, police departments in Maricopa County will conduct DUI saturation patrol programs for DUI enforcement. The 2020 program will start on Wednesday November 25, 2020 and will run each weekend through December 31, 2020. Officers from several police departments around the Valley will conduct coordinated patrols in certain areas, which…
On November 27, 2017, the Scottsdale Municipal Court instituted a general practice of filing an Income Tax Intercept with the Arizona Department of Revenue for any outstanding fine payments, even where the person is not delinquent on their time payment schedule. Aside from being provided for within the language of the time payment agreement,…
What is a Felony DUI in Arizona, No. 11, State v. Escobido. The purpose of this series of podcasts is to discuss the facts, legal issues and sentences imposed in Arizona felony DUI cases so people can have an understanding of how individuals can be found guilty of Felony DUI and what sentences can be…
What is a DUI in Arizona, #4, State v. Hernandez The purpose of this series of podcasts is to discuss the facts, legal issues and sentences imposed in Arizona Felony DUI cases so people can have an understanding of how individuals can be found guilty of Felony DUI and what sentences can be…
Arizona House of Representatives Bill 2305, which would make it a criminal offense in Arizona for a passenger in a motor vehicle to fail to provide ID to police in certain circumstances, was approved in panel yesterday. Although Deputy Pima County Attorney Kathleen Mayer, who testified in favor of this bill before the Arizona…
Certain sections of Arizona’s highways will soon be designated zero tolerance safety corridors, where the State intends to saturate traffic enforcement efforts in an attempt to curb traffic accidents, injuries and deaths in areas identified as high-risk. The new enforcement efforts have already gone into effect for two sections of I-10 in central…
The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will hold press conferences in Phoenix and Tucson tomorrow to announce the start of the 2016 Holiday DUI Enforcement campaign. The current 2016 schedule with dates and locations is pictured above. Gordon Thompson For more information about Arizona dui and criminal law issues please contact Gordon…
More than a thousand signatures have been submitted to the Presidents of Arizona Community Colleges and Public Universities to plead on behalf of Arizona DACA students. The future of DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows undocumented immigrant college or university students with no serious criminal history a 2-year waiver from deportation) is…
Fox 10 Phoenix reporter John Hook will release the results of recent DNA testing in the unsolved 1978 Scottsdale, Arizona murder of actor Bob Crane, star of a popular TV program from the 1960’s called Hogan’s Heroes. A friend of Crane’s, John Henry Carpenter, was suspected of the crime after the discovery of illicit…
Despite having more officers on the roads this past Halloween weekend, holiday DUI arrests are again down from past years according to preliminary results from the Arizona Office of Highway Safety. Arrests in 2015 reached 320, down for 2016 by nearly 100 arrests, to 209. While DUI arrests are down, aggressive driving citations rose…