Blog Posts in 2010
Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
From WTSP.com, Channel 10,Tampa, Florida-- With New Year's Eve only days away, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration expects this to be one of the deadliest weeks of the year on the ...
Continue reading "Roll up your sleeve, sir. Officer Jones will stick a needle in your arm now." »
Posted on Dec 27, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
By Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel CORAL SPRINGS - A veteran police officer returned to work earlier this month after receiving a one-week suspension without pay after being arrested for drunk driving ...
Continue reading "Coral Springs Police Officer Returns to Work after Reno DUI arrest" »
Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
Forced blood draws urged BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff A looming legal battle over whether law enforcement can forcibly draw a driver's blood during drunk driving investigations is heating up ...
Continue reading "Keys prosecutor Dennis Ward urges forced blood draws for suspected Impaired Drivers" »
Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
PORT ST. LUCIE — Troopers for the Florida Highway Patrol charged one of their own with driving under the influence while she was on duty Tuesday, the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said. Lisa A. ...
Continue reading "Trooper Arrested for DUI while on Duty and Driving her Patrol Car" »
Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By Lloyd H. Golburgh, P.A.
When a driver is arrested for DUI , law enforcement may administer a breath or blood test to determine whether his or her blood alcohol concentration is above the legal limit. If a driver has a blood ...
Continue reading "Errors in Blood Testing for DUI" »
Posted on Dec 7, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
If you are a licensed Florida driver who gets convicted of an alcohol related driving offense in another state (no matter what that state calls it, Florida will treat it as a DUI), you will suffer a ...
Continue reading "Out-of-State DUI conviction for Florida Licensee" »
Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By Lloyd H. Golburgh, P.A.
A breath test is the most common way that law enforcement will test a driver's blood alcohol concentration after a Fort Lauderdale DUI arrest. The driver must blow into this device, which will then ...
Continue reading "Potential Defenses to a Breath Test" »
Posted on Nov 26, 2010 By Lloyd H. Golburgh, P.A.
An ignition interlock device (IID) is a device that is installed in a vehicle in order to prevent it from starting unless the driver administers a passing breath sample. An ignition interlock device ...
Continue reading "What is an Ignition Interlock Device?" »
Posted on Nov 25, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Broward prosecutor pleads no contest in accident case By Paula McMahon, Sun Sentinel 5:43 PM EST, November 24, 2010 FORT LAUDERDALE A Broward County prosecutor pleaded ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
Officer Carter case re-filed BY KAUSTUV BASU • FLORIDA TODAY • November 23, 2010 The State Attorney's Office dropped original charges against former Melbourne police officer Frank Carter but re-filed ...
Continue reading "Officer Prosecuted for writing false Tickets" »
Posted on Nov 19, 2010 By Lloyd H. Golburgh, P.A.
Fort Lauderdale resident David Cassidy, former star of "The Partridge Family", was arrested for DUI after an 8:30pm traffic stop on Florida's Turnpike in St. Lucie County, Florida. November 3, 2010. ...
Continue reading "Partridge Family Star Arrested for DUI" »
Posted on Nov 12, 2010 By Lloyd H. Golburgh, P.A.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - The prosecution rested on the seventh day of the trial against Jim Leyritz, a former major league baseball player accused of DUI manslaughter . He stands trial for ...
Continue reading "Prosecution Rests in Former Yankee's DUI Manslaughter Trial" »
Posted on Sep 17, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
People are surprised when I tell them that the recession causes arrests to go down. They say to me, "How can that be? Doesn't crime go up?" The answer is, 'yes.' Property and drug crimes increase, but ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
Attorney contests DUI policy change BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com A Key West attorney is challenging a new state policy that makes it more difficult and expensive for DUI ...
Continue reading "Due Process is Dead at DMV" »
Posted on Jul 28, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
From the Associated Press: By JIM ABRAMS (AP) – 50 minutes ago WASHINGTON — Congress has changed a quarter-century-old law that has sent tens of thousands of blacks to prison for crack cocaine ...
Continue reading "Congress narrows gap in cocaine sentences" »
Posted on Jun 24, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
The Legislature, with the blessing of MADD, has passed a bill allowing those whose licences have been permanatly revoked after being convicted of 4 or more DUIs to apply for a hardship/work permit. ...
Continue reading "Permanant Driver's License Revocation no longer Permanant." »
Posted on Jun 18, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
400 Wrongly Convicted in Washington: Faulty Breathalyzers Posted by Lawrence Taylor on June 10th, 2010 I’ve posted well over 100 times during the past six years on this blog about the multitude of ...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
Alabama Troopers at Birmingham Post Instructed to Cite More for DUI Birmingham, AL. June 13 — The number of tickets for DUI written by state police from the Birmingham post doubled in March after a ...
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Posted on Jun 12, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
As of October 1st of this year, a person with four or more DUI's and a permanant driver's license revocation IS eligible for a hardship permit after a ten-year waiting period from the date of the last ...
Continue reading "New Law Update: Those with 4 or more DUI convictions and a permanant revocation can get a hardship license." »
Posted on Apr 7, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
Trial Tips For Lawyers by Lloyd H. Golburgh, Esq. Organization of Evidence and Voir Dire When asked to write this column, the first thing that came to mind was my last trial a couple of weeks ago in ...
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Posted on Feb 3, 2010 By Lloyd Golburgh
BY ROBERT SAMUELS rsamuels@MiamiHerald.com The trooper's victims were befuddled when they learned they had pending traffic tickets. Most weren't even on the road during the time of their supposed ...
Continue reading "Florida Highway Patrol trooper accused in fake-ticket scheme A veteran trooper stands accused of writing hundreds of fake ticket" »