Articles Posted in First Offense OUI

The While House has declared December National Impaired Driving Prevention Month; there is some irony given the fact that the President’s uncle being arrested in Framingham this year and charged with first offense OUI in Massachusetts, as we previously reported on our blog. As the Buffalo True Crime Examiner reports,…

A first offense Massachusetts OUI charge and child endangerment charge was brought after a mother from Somerset was allegedly found drunk in her car with her child, The Herald News reports. Being charged with OUI in Rehoboth is a serious, and potentially life-changing, event. Having additional charges levied by police…

The Washington Post is reporting that more woman are being arrested for drunk driving. Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this fall that men were responsible for 81 percent of drinking and driving incidents in 2010. Some of these statistics can be unreliable. For instance, law enforcement…

The Boston Globe published its second of three installments on drunk driving bench trials in Massachusetts. The Globe claimed to have researched the number of not guilty verdicts from selected judges that were targeted by prosecutors and published statistics of their rate of not guilty verdicts. Click here to read…

Massachusetts judges were unfairly attacked as being lenient on drunk driving charges in a recent Boston Globe report released today. The special report was the first of a three part series written by Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman and Thomas Farragher. The Boston Globe claims that judges are lenient on Massachusetts…

A longtime top aide and adviser to Gov. Deval Patrick has been suspended by the Governor after being arrested recently for drunken driving in Brookline, the Enterprise News reports. The report shows that even the most experienced and professional people can be labeled criminals with an OUI charge. While it’s…

President Barack Obama’s uncle, charged last month in Framingham, appeared amused in Framingham District Court by the number of journalists there to cover his OUI hearing, the Boston Herald reports. Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last month and charged with OUI after he allegedly nearly hit a police cruiser with…

Were you charged with OUI in Massachusetts? It is possible that you are facing the reality of being charged with a criminal offense. People are quick to judge; court information is public access and family members and loved ones often find out as well. Companies are quick to fire someone…

The uncle of President Barack Obama was recently arrested and charged with DUI and is now being held without bail on an ICE detainer, Fox News reports Being arrested and charged with OUI in Framingham can be frightening for anyone, especially an illegal immigrant. One of the more important tasks…

As the Massachusetts DUI Attorney Blog recently reported, former NBA player and ESPN analyst Jalen Rose was sent to jail for 20 days in response to a March 11 DUI accident in Michigan. His attorneys argued that the sentence was more excessive than sentences handed down in other DUI cases,…