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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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently I represented a client who was charged with DUI in the Seattle area after a detention and arrest by a local police officer. A review of the police report led me to believe that this could be a difficult case. All the “signs” police are trained to look for were in this report: Weaving, speeding, [...]

Whenever you see a DUI arrest documented on one of the police television police shows, there is always a videotape of the driving, the field sobriety tests, and other parts of the processing.  Sometimes, the video also includes the actual breath test.  People expect that DUI arrests will be recorded.Most people are shocked, however,  to [...]

When a person is arrested for a misdemeanor DUI and taken to the police station the police will usually ask: “Will you take the breath test?” The answer to this question can greatly influence the complications that will arise from the DUI arrest, including length of license suspension and also the mandatory minimum DUI criminal [...]

This holiday season, the DUI emphasis patrols will be out in King County and throughout Washington State, patrolling in an increased effort to make DUI arrests. Undoubtedly, DUI arrests will occur. In some of those cases, the driver will be arrested and charged with DUI despite making a good faith …

Every Washington State DUI arrest should be well documented in a DUI police report. DUI police officers receive special training in report writing so that they can testify fully when a DUI case is litigated in court. In past years, we have seen a few strange things regarding police report writing. A few officers had [...]

A SCRAM device is an electronic ankle bracelet that is designed to detect whether a person has been drinking alcohol by measuring alcohol through the person’s skin. This is called a measurement of transdermal alcohol concentration. SCRAM is short for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring.  In Washington State, some judges require a person accused of [...]

After a Seattle DUI arrest or an arrest for DUI anywhere in Washington state, the citizen who has been arrested for DUI will be asked to take a breath test.  As of the date of this blog, the DataMaster breath testing machine (in two variations) is the only device approved for DUI evidential use.  It [...]

The partners at Fox Bowman Duarte have once  again been honored with the invitation to speak at the Washington state DUI Judicial Forums being held throughout the state in September, 2009. These annual forums, sponsored by the Washington State District and Municipal Court Judges Association, consist of presentation and discussion of current DUI issues of [...]