Cobb County DUI Blog
Posted on Jan 15, 2012 By Richard Lawson
Recently, in Roswell, GA police arrested a woman for going 90 mph with a toddler on the back seat of her car according to reports. On December 16, a DUI officer with a radar gun clocked Angela Renee ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Cobb County and Marietta DUI officers are out in droves during the Christmas and New Years holiday time cracking down on stopping motorists. Most people are stopped for a minor traffic violation - ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Have you been arrested for DUI? Do you recall the officer reading you a card and then asking you to submit to a state administered breath test? Was this very confusing because you just took a breath ...
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Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By Richard Lawson
DUI Trials in Cobb County, GA PART TWO Click here to see the first part of this DUI - Cobb County blog. As discussed in the prior DUI blog entry, Motions are key in a Cobb Co. DUI case. A DUI Motion ...
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Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By Richard Lawson
DUI cases are prosecuted in the State Court of Cobb County in Marietta , GA. Sometimes a DUI case begins in the Municipal Court of a Cobb County city like Smyrna or Marietta, but if a plea bargain ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Last week in California, actress Jaime Pressly of the NBC television show "My Name is Earl," plead no contest to her DUI charges. Several months ago the actress was arrested for DUI after ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Marijuana can get you in a lot of trouble in the Marietta / Cobb County area. Cobb County law enforcement officers make numerous marijuana related arrests and Cobb County judges and prosecuting ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Yesterday - July 24th, 2011 - professional football player Paul Hubbard was arrested for drunk driving after the vehicle he was driving reportedly struck a police officer. Hubbard is a wide reciever ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Are you or a friend or family member having trouble with your probation in Cobb County, GA? New offenses and problems with your probation officer can lead to probation warrants, probation violations , ...
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Posted on Jul 16, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Nearly every day in the Marietta , GA area, young people under the age of 21 get arrested or receive citations from Marietta or Cobb County law enforcement officers for Minor in Possession of Alcohol ...
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Posted on Jul 13, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Yesterday, in Marietta , GA, Maria Michelle Baylor, 35, was stopped by Cobb County law enforcement for driving over 90 miles per hour on 1-75 southbound near Delk Road. Baylor was passing through Cobb ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By Richard Lawson
This past weekend in Hollywood, CA Nickelodeon star Ryan Rottman was arrested by LAPD for driving under the influence of alcohol ( DUI ). Rottman was reportedly hanging out in a bar with celebrity ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Richard Lawson
If you are charged with a Cobb County or City of Marietta DUI and you are under the legal drinking age of 21, you will be charged as having an unlawful blood alcohol content if your breath or blood ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Probation officers in Cobb County state and superior court, as well as service the Acworth area, are tough when it comes to probation violations . If one of their probationers commits a new offense, ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2011 By Richard Lawson
In Cobb County, when an officer makes a stop of a motor vehicle and suspects the driver may be DUI, the officer typically likes to administer a preliminary breath test. This is not the breath test ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Cobb County officers stop drivers in and around the Marietta area all the time for a range of traffic offenses. In many of these stops, the officer then comes to the belief based on the drivers ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Typically, a first DUI offense is a misdemeanor charge. However, your first DUI can be a felony if there are minor children under age 14 in the car. While a misdemeanor DUI has harsh penalties, a ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Being pulled over for DUI is stressful and it is hard to think rationally sometimes. If you are pulled over for DUI in Cobb County, the Cobb County PD officer will usually asks you a bunch of ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
In a Cobb County DUI case, the accused driver never has to plead guilty or enter a guilty plea. In each and every case, ranging from a speeding ticket to a felony DUI, you are entitled to a trial by ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
It seems that Cobb County police officers, both in the Austell area, and throughout the county are making an increasing amount of DUI arrests. We highly recommend the services of a DUI attorney should ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Anyone who has driven recently in Vinings after 10 pm (and especially late at night) has probably seen police pulling over drivers and administering field sobriety tests . Every weekend in the Vinings ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
A DUI charge in Acworth typically begins when a driver is pulled over by an Acworth police officer for failing to maintain lane, improper turn, or some other type of erratic driving. A DUI arrest can ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
If you are arrested and charged with DUI in the city of Powder Springs , (or the greater Cobb County or Atlanta metro area), the citation you receive from the law enforcement officer charges you with ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
A DUI charge is overwhelming. Not only is there a criminal court date, but there is also an administrative license suspension that needs to be appealed. If you are facing a Kennesaw DUI charge, it is ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2011 By Richard Lawson
Police officers in Smyrna charges thousands of people with DUI. A lot of people plead guilty to these charges, despite the harsh penalties of a DUI and the effect they my have the persons career, ...
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