Newsroom

The U.S. Tax Court last week allowed the driver of a car to write off thousands of dollars of damage after he totalled it while under the influence. It’s not unusual to deduct property damage (this is claimed as a casualty loss deduction on Form 4684) from your taxes. What is unusual is the …

According to the Washington state Liquor Control Board Web site, non-alcoholic beer ” is classified as non-alcoholic (meaning it has less than 0.5% alcohol by volume as shown on the label), it is not considered to be liquor and can be sold to anyone. So, can non-alcoholic beer, containing less than 0.5% alcohol by volume [...]

December 11, 2009 was the evening of the annual “Night of a Thousand Stars” kickoff in Snohomish County. The name derives from the badges worn by the reported nearly 1,000 DUI officers who patrolled throughout Washington state on this date, looking for drunk drivers. The Night of a Thousand Stars is part of a continued [...]

Every holiday season, Washington State police agencies step up DUI patrols as part of an increased DUI awareness and enforcement program. In most cases, a DUI arrest happens after an officer observes some driving error and pulls the vehicle over.  Two recently reported cases are unique in that the police vehicles were struck by vehicles and the [...]

Diego Vargas was invited to speak at the annual seminar “Defending DUIs” that was held on December 11, 2009. The committee selecting speakers asked Diego to lecture on “Winning the Impossible Case” due to the numerous cases he has won that were referred …

Now that the holidays are upon us, all of the local police agencies will be conducting holiday DUI emphasis patrols. This means an increased presence of law enforcement on the freeways, highways, county roads and city streets whose sole mission is to detect and arrest drivers who are under the influence of alcohol. As always, [...]