What kind of penalties will you be facing if you get picked up and charged with DUI/DWI? Most states are becoming a lot tougher on people who are drinking and driving. It used to be a simple fine and a slap on the wrist but no more days of that now. As they get tougher some states are applying some tougher consequences than they ever had before. In Atlanta they have upped the charges that a first timer will face, they will have probation for a full year, do 80 hours of service in the community, required to take DUI classes, and fines that range in between $500 all the way up to $1,000 but that’s not all the driver will also have a criminal charge on their record, which will be on there until the person dies.Due to these changes a lot of people are trying to get a DWI attorney to go to court with them. When you get stopped the officer will give you a few tests to tell whether you are drinking and driving. It’s very hard for a person to go to court without an attorney because of the laws they are not as clear cut as they use to be. And it may be that only an attorney will understand all the laws and be able to defend you properly.
It’s always wiser to not even get behind the wheel even after one drink, if you’re tired the affects of the alcohol will even be stronger. Plus some people just don’t hold their alcohol well. It is just a much better idea to leave the driving to someone else or stay where you are, if you happen to be drinking at a friend’s house.
So many deaths happen each year that involve alcohol, in fact about every 30 seconds someone will die in an alcohol related crash. Someone will be injured seriously every 30 seconds from a crash where alcohol was involved and most of the time in these accidents it won’t be the person who is drinking and driving that will die or get seriously injured but the person who had even had a drink. It seems extremely unfair, but it just seems that it happens a lot of times.
So what is the way to avoid causing one of these accidents? Obviously it’s that you shouldn’t drink and drive. When you go out give your keys to the person who is a designated driver. Or if you go to a friend’s house and know you’re going to be drinking, give you keys to them. At the end of the night they can either take you home, or let you sleep there until morning.
You would think that most people would not want to get behind the wheel knowing that they may well cause someone to die. But alcohol is drunk because it impairs your thought process and reactions. A lot of people drink just to forget about a bad day or some situation in their life that they are facing.
*** This is not legal advice. Please consult with a local attorney for information regarding your specific case***
This article was provided by Gerrid Smith, but sponsored by the Driver Law Firm of Raleigh, NC
A pretty good video on the death penalty…
Maybe, interesting post over at Lex Blog with the details. What’s the bottom line? Here it is.
FindLaw got caught selling links. What’s so wrong with that? Not much really. Think about it, directories sell links, everyone sells links these days. The difference is, they said that it would increase your rankings in Google. That’s the big “No no”.
Hopefully they have apologized to Matt Cutts and set things straight. Either way, they need to change their marketing tactic for selling links in the future.
If you want serious results, contact the lawyer internet marketers today.
Bryan Eisenberg had a great post this morning on his blog regarding a recent eye-tracking study performed by Think Eyetracking.
Here are some quotes from the article:
“There was a time when people would click though a page, two or even three of search results, but that is not so common any more. Today, if you don’t rank in the top 3, searchers will barely notice your listing.”
“As seen in the heatmap above, fixations are studded around the top 5 results and the majority of clicks are upon the top 3 results (discounting the sponsored link). The sponsored link was actually not well attended to due to the fact that searchers are now familiar with advertiser placement within Google. The 2008 heatmap supports the recent trend observed by Cornell University (Their study found that the top 3 Google results get 79% of all clicks) and by AOL (Findings were that 63% of clicks were concentrated upon the top three search results).”
Wow, 79% of all clicks for the top three spots is huge. This trend will only continue as the top results become more competitive and accurate.