In New Jersey, DWI checkpoints are a common method used by police to help reduce the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents and fatalities throughout the state. To maintain fairness under the law, our courts have required state, county and municipal law enforcement authorities to publish the times and locations of future…
Another DWI traffic death has rocked the professional sports world. Baseball fans and players alike were shocked and saddened by yesterday’s untimely death of 22-year-old Angels’ pitcher, Nick Adenhart, who was killed when the vehicle in which he was riding was broadsided by a suspected drunk driver in Fullerton, California. The incident is all the more…
Professional indoor soccer player, Mathew J. Maher, of the Philadelphia Kixx was recently arrested and charged with drunk driving and allegedly causing the death of a Pennsylvania man on the Atlantic City Expressway earlier this month. According to police, Maher, 24, of Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, was driving a…
Carlstadt — A 68-year-old man from Astoria, New York, was arrested March 21 at 12:18 a.m. for DWI, drunk driving within 1,000 feet of a school zone, and parking in a no-parking zone. The man was charged and later released to the custody of his wife. East Rutherford — On…
Following a third DWI arrest, well-known Hollywood movie and TV star Rip Torn is seeking to dodge drunk driving charges in Connecticut by attending that state’s alcohol awareness program. The 78-year-old performer, whose most recent television appearances have included the popular NBC sitcom, “30 Rock,” already has two prior out…
It seems that nearly anyone can run afoul of the law, even those who are responsible for upholding it. Take the case of a former municipal court judge who served in Morris County, New Jersey, until a 2007 drunk driving conviction cost him his job. Now, two years after that…