The City with the Highest incidence of DUI in the Nation

Which city would you guess has the highest number of DUI arrests year after year? If you guessed Las Vegas, Nevada also known as Sin City, you would be wrong. Some might guess New Orleans, Lousiana or Miami, Florida, since they are known as party towns. Las Vegas did not even make the top 20 cities listed by the United States Department of Transportation. You might guess car-loving Los Angeles or perhaps even San Francisco which is another city not particularly known for individuals taking a cab when they could be driving their own sweet vehicle home from a party.

Ranking #1 on the list is Denver, Colorado.
Which would have guessed the Mile High City? Well I suppose that might make some sense when you consider all of the bear commercial which come from that part of the country. "Have a nice cold frosty, icy tall, smooth as a Rocky Mountain stream" went one commercial for a major commercial brewer in the area as I recall. But putting all jokes aside, being arrested for Driving under the Influence is a very serious matter indeed. The fines and penalties for this particular offence can be very steep. The penalty may include jail time, loss of license, your vehicle being impounded, community service picking trash up from the side of the road or something similar as well as mandatory counseling and probation. Of course, a good attorney may help to make sure your constitutional rights are observed and that you have expert witnesses and scientific evidence is brought forward in your defense, but trust me, you do not want to even go that route if you can at all avoid it.

Having said that, the person who has been arrested for this serious crime should seek out expert representation so as to defend him in the court of law. If you had submitted to the Breathalyzer test, a knowledgeable attorney may be able to challenge its reliability and will assuredly understand the scientific techniques used in the Breathalyzer test and will know how to question its accuracy.

Of course DUI arrests do not always end in conviction. Many of these cases are actually overturned with help of a knowledgeable attorney. Felony drunk driving involves an accident with serious injuries. A person charged with misdemeanor drunk driving might have been in a accident minor accident with minor injuries having incurred. Naturally, the felony drunk driving arrest can lead to huge fines and incarceration.

In Colorado, the blood alcohol lever to determine drunk driving is 0.08. Along side the DUI laws in Colorado is the DWAI law. DWAI means driving while impaired. The legal limit to determine this in Denver and other cities is 0.05. This stricter law will put the average man or woman as over the limit after two beers. More detail may be found at the The legal blog Mandatory penalties are set and must be followed if there is a conviction for DUI or DWAI. Probation is offered for any jail term. Your attorney can work to ensure your charges are not punished beyond any mandatory sentence. You can find good criminal defense lawyers in your local yellow pages.