For many years the drinking and driving laws in the United States were under enforced. Motorists were typically only arrested when an accident was involved or when they were so intoxicated it was impossible to ignore them. Over the last 20 years, the anti-drinking and driving movement pushed for harsher laws and tougher penalties across the United States. As a result, most states changed their drinking and driving laws to provide easier enforcement and increased penalties. In addition, many states, including Nebraska, have made the punishment for even a first-time drunk driving offense harsher if there are aggravating circumstances. Aggravated

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People from all walks of life and all socio-economic groups find themselves facing driving under the influence charges or DUI. Frequently, a DUI arrest is the offender’s first brush with the law. As a result, an accused often makes mistakes. While many of these mistakes are certainly understandable, they could destroy a defense or provide the prosecution with additional evidence against you. Ultimately, mistakes made by an accused in a DUI case can lead to a conviction, a harsher sentence, and higher expenses. In Cass County Nebraska and anywhere else, if you ever find yourself in a position where you

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Over the past several decades laws across the country relating to drinking and driving have become tougher and the penalties harsher. In Sarpy County in Nebraska, a conviction for driving under the influence, or DUI, carries with it a variety of serious penalties. One of the penalties that will be imposed if you are convicted for a Sarpy County DUI is the revocation of your driving privileges. The length of your license revocation will depend on your previous history of DUI, or lack of a history. If you are currently facing a Sarpy County DUI charge and this is the

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In recent decades, both private advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and government agencies have waged a very public campaign to educate motorists about the dangers of drinking and driving in an effort to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities caused by drunk driving accidents on the nation’s roadways. Their efforts seem to have paid off as the number of drunk driving accidents has steadily declined over the past twenty years. Along with reducing the number of injuries and deaths, the campaign has also resulted in tougher drinking and driving laws in most states, including Nebraska.

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Just a generation ago the laws relating to drunk driving were considerably more lenient and were often haphazardly enforced. Today, drunk driving laws across the nation are far from lenient and law enforcement agencies go to great lengths to enforce them. If you have been arrested for driving under the influence in Omaha you face a variety of serious consequences, many of which will continue to impact your life years after your actual conviction. Omaha has a basic DUI law and an aggravated DUI law. A simple DUI is one in which you had a blood/breath alcohol concentration, or BAC,

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In the past several decades, a national campaign has been underway to educate the public about the dangers of driving while impaired. As a result, many of the nation’s drunk driving laws have been strengthened to include harsher penalties for a motorist who is convicted of drunk driving. In Omaha, while most motorists are familiar with the term “drunk driving”, the term “impaired driving” is less familiar. To avoid being arrested and charged with a criminal offense, however, you need to understand what impaired driving in Omaha means. In Omaha Nebraska, it is a crime for a motorist to operate

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