A new feature on the Tollway’s Web site now allows customers who receive a toll violation notice to view their license plate images and dispute toll violations online. A How-To Guide A violation notice number and license plate number are needed to enter the...
Month: April 2011
Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops
Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops ACLU seeks information on Michigan program that allows cops to download information from smart phones belonging to stopped motorists. The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can...
New Trial Granted in Illinois Drug Case
By Jay Wiegman, Office of the State Appellate Defender Prior to his jury trial on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, defendant Ira Mullins filed a motion in limine seeking to bar admission of his prior felony narcotics convictions...
Aggravated DUI Causing Death Upheld With Small Amount of Drugs
People v. Martin (found here: http://www.state.il.us/court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2011/April/109102.pdf) is a complete embarrassment to our state’s jurisprudence, in my opinion. Aggravated DUI Causing Death is in fact our state’s version of vehicular homicide, as it is...
Business owner casts reasonable doubt on accuracy of speed cameras
Interesting article: Mr. Foreman, the owner of Eastover Auto Supply in Oxon Hill, examined dozens of citation photos of his company’s trucks that were issued along a camera-monitored stretch of Indian Head Highway his employees frequently travel. The camera company,...
DUI Appeal – Illinois Suspension Reversed Due to Video ‘Destruction’
In People of Illinois v. Aronson, — N.E.2d —-, 2011 WL 941306 (Ill.App. 2 Dist.), the arresting officer’s video of the defendant was ‘lost’ during a technical transfer or download of the video from the squad car to a disc for the court. According to the prosecutor:...
Plane towing banner with messages critical of prosecutors flying over Palm Beach County Courthouse
Plane towing banner with messages critical of prosecutors flying over Palm Beach County Courthouse.
DUI Chemists Blow the Whistle on Vermont’s Breath-Testing Program | Seven Days
DUI Chemists Blow the Whistle on Vermont’s Breath-Testing Program | Seven Days.
WoodDale DUI Arrests and Roadblocks St. Pats Day and Cinqo de Mayo
Here’s some new DUI information from an email out of WoodDale Illinois: Subject: Wood Dale Police Department Grant Results The Wood Dale Police Department recently took part in a grant funded through the Illinois Department of Transportation to make our streets...
New Cook County Felony program to give some offenders a second chance
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office has launched a major new program aimed at giving first-time felony offenders with a variety of charges a chance to avoid convictions and keep clean records. State’s Attorney Anita M. Alvarez said the program was the first of...