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If you have been arrested for a DUI in Whatcom County or the City of Bellingham it’s likely that you have been placed on pretrial supervision. This means that you are reporting to a probation officer while your case is pending resolution. One of the many conditions of your pretrial supervision is that you submit [...]

Washington State DUI laws are among the strictest in the nation. Like most states, the legal limit is .08% but the reading is produced by testing breath alcohol, not blood alcohol. Breath alcohol does not impair a driver; it is only alcohol in the blood that impairs a driver. Thus, a blood test would be [...]

Fox Bowman Duarte partners Francisco Duarte and Diego Vargas participated in a seminar sponsored by the Washington State Bar Asssociation on February 25, 2010: “Evidence and Objection Boot Camp.” The well-attended seminar highlighted the best practices of handling exhibits, witnesses and objections. These are necessary skills for any attorney who will take a DUI or [...]

Officers who have special training to detect whether a DUI driver is impaired by drugs are known as “DRE” or “Drug Recognition Experts.” Washington State has a growing number of officers who have received this training and DUI officers in Seattle and King County are emphasizing the detection and arrest of [...]

Businesswire.com recently reported that a company is developing technology that detects a person’s alcohol level by measuring having the subject place a finger on a device known as the TruTouch 2000.  The device was announced as being aimed at industry and at law enforcement such as Washington state DUI squads for use in DUI trials. There, accurate measurement [...]

The Washington State Senate has just passed a bill requiring law enforcement officers to be honest in the discharge of their duties. The language of the bill can be found at the following URL: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2010&bill=6590.

Unfortunately, law enforcement officers are not always honest. Sometimes they exagerate the truth but sometimes they tell …