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BELLEVUE OFFICE
1621 114th Ave. SE, Suite 210
Bellevue, WA 98004
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Phone: 425.451.1995
Fax: 425.451.3820
24 Hour On-Duty Attorney:
425.829.5782
BELLINGHAM OFFICE
12 Bellwether Way, Suite 114
Bellingham, WA 98225
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Phone: 360.671.4384
Fax: 360.671.4390
After Hours Emergency:
206.715.5150
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July 5th, 2010
Washington State is slowly moving forward with plans to deploy new DUI breath testing machines. The state has already purchased a number of machines, the Draeger 9510, and is in the process of testing them before deploying them to be used in actual DUI arrests. The state is buying new breath test machines because the [...]
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December 13th, 2009
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 [...]
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December 13th, 2009
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 …
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September 26th, 2009
A Washington State DUI arrest almost always involves alcohol. Although the legal consequences of a DUI in Seattle and elsewhere in Washington State are fully discussed elsewhere on our blog and within our firm website, recent research has revealed a medical risk that may occur when “time release” medicine is taken and alcohol is present …
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September 5th, 2009
WLWT-TV reports that a Lawrenceburg, Indiana man has filed a lawsuit against the police asserting that police forcibly drew blood and urine from his body during a drunk driving arrest. According to the report, a 53-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and although a breath test showed that he was under the [...]
Tags: Blood Test, Breath Test, DUI Arrest, DUI Defense, Jon Fox, Seattle DUI Attorney, Toxicology, Washington State DUI Posted in Seattle DUI Attorney | Comments Off
August 21st, 2009
Bill Bowman, a partner at Fox Bowman Duarte, has been named for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America. The selection letter stated: “Congratulations on having been selected by your peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of DUI/DWI Defense. For over a quarter [...]
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August 21st, 2009
Washington State DUI probation carries stiff penalties for violations.
Tags: DUI Arrest, DUI Defense, DUI penalties, DUI Probation, Jon Fox, Seattle DUI Attorney Posted in Washington DUI | Comments Off
August 12th, 2009
A “hard” license suspension is a license suspension for which there is no driving of any sort allowed. By way of background, under the 2009 amendments to Washington state’s DUI laws, a driver whose license is suspended for an alcohol-based DUI arrest or conviction may apply for an ignition interlock license. This license permits the [...]
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August 8th, 2009
One of the “standardized” field sobriety tests routinely given in a Seattle DUI arrest is the “eye test” otherwise known as the test for Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus. In this test, the DUI arresting officer looks for “bouncing” or “jerking” of the eyes as they follow a stimulus, usually a finger or a pen. If the [...]
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July 24th, 2009
The Washington State Patrol DUI section has released a report analyzing statistics for DUI arrests occurring in 2008. The statistics were compiled from the database aggregated from data kept on the BAC Verifier DataMaster breath testing machines located throughout Washington State and used for the evidential breath test in a DUI arrest. From this report [...]
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