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LEGAL
TIPS
Alabama DUI Priority :
Under the Alabama drunk-driving law, it seems the first three convictions are treated as misdemeanors, for which the guilty can go to jail for up to a year. However, a fourth conviction is a felony, which can draw a sentence of up to 10 years in jail.
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Personal Injury Lawyer Practicing in Alabama and Surrounding Areas |
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Every day an Alabama driver is seriously injured in an auto accident due to another driver's mistake. Unfortunately, the damage of an auto accident is not just the physical pain or expense of medical care for those injured in the accident.
Many times an auto accident devastates the life of the injured, as well as the lives of the family as well. Without an attorney who knows the law, these victims do not receive the compensation they legally deserve.
At Richardson Law Offices, LLC, our staff is dedicated to assisting auto accident victims in getting their lives back on track. We eagerly work on behalf of our clients in injury cases, and we do so with care and respect. Put our experience to work for you.
E-mail us now for a consultation. An attorney will discuss your case with you for free, and you do not owe us an attorney's fee unless we collect for you.
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DUI
& Driving Under The Influence:
DUI History :
Historically, guilt was established by observed driving symptoms, such as weaving; administering field sobriety tests, such as a walking a straight line heel-to-toe or standing on one leg for 30 seconds; and the arresting officer's subjective opinion of impairment. Starting with the introduction in Norway in 1936 of the world’s first per se law which made it an offense to drive with more than a specified amount of alcohol in the body, objective chemical tests have gradually supplemented the earlier purely judgmental ones. Limits for chemical tests are specific for blood alcohol concentration or concentration of alcohol in breath.
Field Sobriety Test :
An increasingly used field sobriety test involves having the suspect breathe into a small, handheld breath testing device. Called variously a PAS (preliminary alcohol screening) or PBT (preliminary breath test), the units are small, inexpensive versions of their larger, more sophisticated instruments at the police stations, the EBTs (evidentiary breath test). Whereas the EBTs usually employ infrared spectroscopy, the PAS units use a relatively simple electrochemical (fuel cell) technology. Their purpose, along with other FSTs, is to assist the officer in determining probable cause for arrest. Although because of their relative inaccuracy they were never intended to be used in court for proving actual blood-alcohol concentration, some courts have begun to admit them as evidence of BAC.
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