Subject: Drunk Driving

• Beverly Hills Cops Ready to Break Lane Garrison

  February 1, 2007

• From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

  April 7, 2006

• Drink Up and Cover Up

  April 23, 2007

• From Prison Break to, Well, Prison?

  May 21, 2007

• Those DNA Lawsuits Just Keep on Coming

  August 30, 2007

• Where's Wicko?

  January 3, 2008

• Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher

  April 2, 2009

• Who's afraid of Robert rose?

  August 24, 1995

• BeloWatch

  March 21, 1996

• Deadbeat update

  August 8, 1996

• Fight or flight?

  January 23, 1997

• Letters

  January 14, 1999

• The Boy Scout, the hustler, and the porn queen

  March 4, 1999

• Off the Track

  December 7, 2000

• The Needle and the Damage Drunk

  On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that the blood draws would be related to serious accidents involving injury. That's not the whole story. In fact, the second bill includes an amendment crafted by the Dallas Country District Attorney's Of

  April 2, 2009

• Athletes' feat? | Blowin' In The Wind | There Will Be Blood

  April 9, 2009

• Fudge Factor

  May 3, 2007

• Plano Cops Make Bitter Divorce Even Worse

  December 13, 2007

• Last Call

  December 11, 2003

• There Will Be Blood: Come September, the DPD's No-Refusal Weekend Goes Full Time

  Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park he expects to launch the so-called no-refusal program full-time in September after key legislation passed Sunday that makes obtaining a blood search warrant easier."That was the hold up," says Kunkle, who explains that the old law stipulated that only certain judges could issue an evidentiary search warrant relating to suspected DWI offenses. Now, the law has been broadened to allow any magistrate who is a state-licensed attorney to issue a bloo

  June 3, 2009

• Mud Wrestling

  Denton County's new district attorney challenged on his claims to be Mr. Clean

  February 8, 2007

• Time Heals No Wounds

  A judge has to intervene on behalf of an inmate to save his infected leg

  June 8, 2006

• See you in Court

  The TABC picks the wrong guy to ticket

  April 20, 2006

• Oklahoma Railroad

  Accused of killing a cop's son, Emily Dowdy learns the hard way that in Oklahoma City justice isn't blind. It works for the prosecution.

  July 21, 2005

• MADD Again

  With Texas No. 1 in DWI deaths, MADD gets down to business

  August 7, 2003

• The Untouchable

  Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas

  September 14, 2000

• Far as You Know, We Were Not Getting Hammered at the DWI Defense Project Confab

  DWI attorney David BurrowsSeveral hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away from offering the breath test to those suspected of driving while intoxicated. They are increasingly demanding the suspect give them a blood sample, even if they have to strap down that person to get it.

  May 8, 2009

• This Weekend, Dallas Police to Make Drunk Drivers an Offer They Can't Refuse

  Kimberly ThorpeMADD director Mary Kardell and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle at this morning's press conferenceA word of caution before you head out for the long Memorial Day weekend: It's also No-Refusal Weekend. Which means? Well, if Dallas police pull suspect you're drinking and driving, you'll be stuck with a butterfly needle attached to a vacuum-packed container, and two vials' worth of your blood will taken and tested. And, no, you can't refuse the test; hence the name, as discussed in o

  May 21, 2009

• Time's Running Out for State Legislature to Allow "No-Refusal" DWI Blood Drawa

  Dallas Police VideoA woman arrested for DWI during a so-called No-Refusal Weekend has her blood drawn inside Lew Sterrett. In her left hand? A search warrant that orders her to give up her blood.The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that would allow law enforcement officers to draw blood from folks suspected of driving under the influence -- otherwise known as the no-refusal initiative for which the Dallas Police Department is pushing

  May 29, 2009

• This Just In: Don't Drink and Drive

  ​If your name is Newy Scruggs, Laura Dean-Mooney or Jesus H. Christ, you have permission to stop reading. The rest of you, I'd like you to think back to the last time you were driving while drunk, schnockered, intoxicated, tipsy, under the influence or, if you prefer, merely buzzed. Last week? Last month? Last year? Last night? Whatever. I've done it. We've all done it. Shame on us. The latest reminder about the consequences of one of the dumbest decisions we make in life comes courtesy o

  November 3, 2009