Dec. 10, 2016 The second day of the National College of DUI Defense’s Serious Science Drug Seminar started with a pharmacology presentation from Dr. Steven Oakes, whose focus was on the drugs most commonly associated with DUI / OVWI arrests. Dr....
Dec. 11, 2016 The entire third day was spent on the University of Texas-Arlington campus at the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry. The name of the game: learning by doing. In addition to Dr. Kevin Schug, two post-doctoral students and three graduate...
December 9, 2016 Attorney Marc Lopez was on his way to Texas when the universe winked at him. As he was passing by a bar in the Indianapolis Airport, he spotted this promotional sign and couldn’t resist snapping a photo. In addition to a quality pun, this...
Most people charged with drunk driving are facing two charges: operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving with a blood-alcohol concentration above the legal limit. Two charges for the same crime? Is this America? The lead charge in 99% of drunk driving cases...
If you get into a car accident today, should that give the State the opportunity to punish you for having gone to a party a few weeks ago? Indiana says, Yes, it should. Under Indiana’s DUI / OVWI statute, if you operate a vehicle with a controlled substance or its...
A police impersonator has been pulling over women in Central Indiana. WTHR has the full story online. Indiana law is very clear. In order for a police officer to stop a person for a traffic violation the officer must be in fully marked police vehicle or wearing a...
An officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) will not be facing criminal charges after he struck and killed a pedestrian while the officer, not on duty, was driving an IMPD vehicle with a .029 blood alcohol content (BAC). This incident...
A Fort Wayne police officer was charged in the breaking and entering of a person’s house and the theft of a chainsaw and gas cans from the property. The internal affairs of the police department requested to speak to the police officer and the officer “pled the 5th.”...
Attorney Marc Lopez was fortunate to attend the 2015 National College of DUI Defense DUI seminar in Las Vegas. The three-day seminar included topics ranging from updates on the blood testing, breath testing, standardize field sobriety testing and national trends in...
Attorney Marc Lopez spent an entire day learning about the Intoximeter’s EC/IR II breath testing machine works. This is important to Attorney Lopez’s DUI / OVWI practice as the EC/IR II is the breath testing machine Indiana has chosen to replace the...
