Category Archives: DWI
Intoxication Manslaughter: Texas Penal Code §49.08
It is undisputed that intoxicated drivers can be dangerous and deadly hazards behind the wheel. In fact, Drunk While Intoxicated (“DWI”) accidents are reported to be the cause of someone dying every nine (9) hours and six (6) minutes in the Lone Star State, according to August 2021 statistics provided by the Texas Department of…
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Deadly Drunk Driving Accidents: Criminal DWI and Civil Injury Claims for Wrongful Death in Texas
Under Texas law, Drunk Driving Wrongful Death Liability May Involve a Variety of Responsible Parties According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), one person dies every 50 minutes in this country from a drunk-driving accident. Serious and fatal drunk driving crashes remain a very real danger on our roads today, despite public awareness…
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DWI Accidents in Texas: Criminal Defense after Drunk Driving Crash Charges
Defense Challenges to Improper or Insufficient DWI Arrests and Prosecutions In Texas, in any motor vehicle accident, car crash, or traffic collision where a driver is arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated (“DWI”), he or she faces serious criminal consequences under Texas law. When is a driver considered to be legally intoxicated and vulnerable…
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Not Guilty on Dallas County DWI charge
Mr. Lowe’s client was stopped by Cedar Hill Police department for Driving While Intoxicated. The police officer found alcohol in the car and later determined that Mr. Lowe’s client failed at 3 of the stand field sobriety tests. Mr. Lowe tried the case in Dallas County Criminal Court #5 and obtained a Not Guilty Verdict….
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Success in Intoxication Manslaughter Case Before Fort Worth Court of Appeals: Patterson v. State of Texas
The Fort Worth Court of Appeals (panel of Justices Walker, Gabriel, and Sudderth) has issued its opinion in an appeal of an intoxication manslaughter case coming out of Cooke County, Texas. Michael Lowe was not on board for the criminal DWI / manslaughter trial court proceedings; he began representing the defendant, Steve Patterson, afterwards in…
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Texas Millionaire John Goodman Retrial For Drunk Driving Vehicular Manslaughter: Lessons in Zealous Criminal Defense
This story starts in February 2010 over in Florida, in a town about the same distance north of Miami as Austin is to San Antonio. John Goodman, a Texas native and heir to a huge family fortune built by his daddy down in Houston, was driving his convertible Bentley extremely fast when he crashed into…
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More Texas DWI Convictions Will Be Overturned Because of Warrantless Blood Draws
Over in Tyler, somebody had a very good day recently – specifically, Samuel Gentry who saw his lawyer win a DWI appeal before the Tyler Court of Appeals and get his 3d DWI conviction overturned along with the Life Sentence he was serving. Warrantless Blood Draw in DWI Case What happened? The police…
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TEXAS DWI DEFENSES TO B.A.C. BLOOD TEST RESULTS (MAY WORK FOR OTHER STATE DRUNK DRIVING DEFENSES, TOO)
Criminal defense challenges to BAC blood test results in Drunk Driving prosecutions If you have been arrested or charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) in the State of Texas, and your blood test result comes back at 0.08 g/dL or higher blood alcohol content (”BAC”) , then what’s left for your defense? Once you’ve had…
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What is the Texas Driver’s Responsibility Surcharge for DWI Cases and Why (Hopefully) Its Days may be Numbered
This week down in Austin, some Texas legislators gave us all hope that something may be done sometime in this decade about the Texas Driver’s Responsiblity Surcharge Program. Fingers crossed. We’ve been discussing the unfairness of the Texas Driver Responsibility Surcharges for years now; check out our prior posts for a history of this state…
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