Apparently, Snead was behind the wheel of a 2000 Ford, heading east in the westbound lanes of Tampa Bay Boulevard at about 11 p.m. Sunday when his car struck another vehicle near Lois Avenue. Police said they could smell alcohol on Snead’s breath and noticed Snead’s glassy, bloodshot eyes and slurred speech—telltale signs of a person who is driving under the influence. Snead was arrested and was subjected to breathtests which registered near .20 BAC, which is more than double the legal limit of 08.

Each count of Snead’s DUI with serious bodily injury charge could subject him to five years state prison.

The Doctor’s wife at the time was the person who alerted law enforcement to his criminal activity. She later testified against him at trial. Investigators say they found images of children as young as six on the Doctor’s office and home computers. At sentencing, family members of the Doctor testified to the Judge that they had been molested by the Doctor when they were children and that they have never been able to move on from the trauma that caused in their life.

The doctor’s medical license has been suspended indefinitely by the Florida Department of Health.

ABC Acton News reports that McCormick's girlfriend scratched him with her fingernails trying to fight back, and thought she was going to die. McCormick told deputies a different side of the story, saying his girlfriend attacked him and he was just defending himself. The Sheriff's Office is now trying to determine if alcohol played a role inthis incident.

McCormick has been arrested and is in jail on the battery charge. Depending on the severity of the woman’s injuries, under Floirda law, McCormick may be charged with a misdemeanor or felony battery--which could potentially hold a penalty of anything from probation to ten years in prison.

Some of the most severe cases resulted in arrests and criminal convictions for sex offenses but the Sentinel's review of teacher-discipline records from the Florida Department of Education found that many of the alleged misconducts did not rise to a criminal level.

Regardless of whether the teachers were criminally charged, the facts of some of these incidents are alarming. Among the “not charged” cases are allegations that a Port Orange teacher sent text messages to a boy, calling him "cutie" and "sexie"; a ninth-grade teacher in Tampa who asked a student about the color of her nipples; and an Orlando coach who used e-mail and instant messages to tell a 13-year-old girl he loved her and wanted their relationship to grow beyond friendship.

Those 150 disciplinary cases don't include the dozens of educators who have been suspended or lost their teaching certificates since 2006 for molesting nonstudents, downloading porn at school, having sex in public and trying to pick up prostitutes. Many of the cases occurred in the South Florida and Tampa Bay areas. In Central Florida, 34 teachers were disciplined in the three-year period, including 12 from Orange County, 11 from Volusia, four from Polk, three from Seminole, three from Brevard and one in Lake.

According to Florida Highway Patrol reports, last week Sutherlin rear-ended a pickup on U.S. 19 north of Main Street and sped away. The pickup driver followed Sutherlin until he was forced to pull over because of front-end damage to Sutherlin’s car. Early the next morning, Troopers arrested Sutherlin on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and later gave him a Breathalyzer test, which registered blood alcohol levels of 0.148 and 0.151 blood-alcohol level. (Florida law presumes a driver impaired at 0.08.)

Sutherlin is charged with DUI, DUI with personal injury and DUI with Property Damage as well as Leaving the Scene of an Accident. The Times reports that the police department began an internal investigation of the incident, which also involved Officer Joseph Pascalli, who was riding with Sutherlin. Pascalli, who had been part of the department's DUI unit, is now working the midnight shift on patrol.

In a strange twist to the story, Joshua Vitori--who was driving the pickup Sutherlin struck-- is a former Pasco County paramedic who resigned from his job last week as a result of accusations he stole $300 from a patient in his ambulance.

The 26-year-old California native was a third-string linebacker who came to Tampa from the Jets as a free agent, and previously played for the Philadelphia Eagles. The team released him on Saturday. The Bucs’ press release can be found here. It is unclear whether the DUI played a part in this decision.

The whole purpose of the breath testing protocol is to insure that the Intoxilyzers are working correctly and rendering accurate Breath Alcohol Content (BAC) levels. By keeping malfunctioning machines in police stations, this FDLE inspector has jeopardized the prosecution of thousands of DUI defendants, not to mention potentially causing the arrest of innocent people for drunk driving. My guess is that many of these DUI cases will be broken down to Reckless Driving charges or dismissed outright- it will be too hard for State Attorneys to overcome the presumption that the "faulty" Instruments involved in those arrests rendered invalid results, since they were never properly tested by Veiga.

The Internal Affairs investigation found that the Deputy Sheriff, Justin Speaks, committed six felonies--three counts of forgery and three counts of uttering a forged instrument-- and conduct unbecoming to a member of the Sheriff's Office. The IA report alleges that Speaks forged Sgt. William Porter's name and initials on a DUI report this year and that Speaks previously forged Sgt. Ron Harrison's initials on a different DUI report and Sgt. Richard Figueredo's initials to an HCSO supplement.

According to police, several drivers called about Laramore's dangerous driving, and when he was pulled over, a bottle of vodka was sticking out from under his seat. Laramore said he had just left a party but had not been drinking and told police that he was a probation officer and he would lose his job. Bay County officials charged Laramore with DUI, possession of marijuana, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

At this point, losing his job appears to be the least of his worries.

The DUI crash occurred in May 2006, when Baker, who was 20 years old at the time, crossed the center line on N. CR 125 and struck the van driven by a Julie Michaud of Cuyler. Ms. Michaud suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash, still walks with a severe limp and only recently regained the ability to write with her natural hand.

Mr. Baker’s blood alcohol level measured .066 three hours after the accident and had the case gone to trial The Baker County State Attorney’s Office was prepared to put on expert testimony to establish that at the time of the accident the that the defendant’s alcohol level exceeded the .08 legal limit.

Judge Moseley, who presided over the plea, warned Mr. Baker that if he violates any provision of the probation, he could face between two and five years state prison.

Arrests for Prostitution, are often the target of Motions to Dismiss or Motions to Suppress Evidence due to the Entrapment issues that arise in these scenarios. Although Entrapment defenses arise in other cases--most notably drug crimes, sex crimes and theft cases--countless prostitution cases have also been dismissed where courts have found that a particular defendant was not predisposed to commit the crime, but for the persuading and manipulation of the undercover officer.

Like DUI, Prostitution has a tiered sentencing structure for multiple convictions. For the first violation, the State Attorney can charge a misdemeanor of the second degree. For the second violation, the State Attorney can charge a misdemeanor of the first degree, and for a third or subsequent violation, the State Attorney can charge a third degree felony.

Under the advice of the assigned Public Defender to his case, the defendant who was charged with burglary, sexual battery and theft chose to “plea open” to the court with no specific resolution agreed to— apparently hoping for a lenient sentence from the court. Often times the court will look to the Florida Felony Score Sheet for guidance in this type of situation. Prosecutors use the formula in score sheets to determine whether a person’s charge and criminal history requires the court to impose prison time, the amount of prison time or to determine if jail or probation is allowed by law. But as this man and his Public Defender found, the score sheet was merely the start of the process. Although the score sheet in this case permitted a prison sentence of eleven years, it also permitted life. The judge chose to sentence life in prison.

Up until this point, most Florida courts were unwilling to require the Intoxilyzer machines’ manufacturer, CMI, to disclose the source code information to Florida citizens facing criminal prosecution for DUI because the source codes were considered trade secrets, which are protected. This past week however, Judge Deborah Bernini of Arizona, ordered that the source codes, despite CMI and Arizona prosecutors’ arguments to the contrary, are not a trade secrets. According to news reports, the judge based her ruling on a finding that the Florida Breath test machine is not patented, nor are the source codes protected by copyright law.

Results from Florida’s breath testing machines are already not allowed in Tennessee courtrooms because of its perceived unreliability. Hopefully, the State of Florida will take this recent development to do the right thing and either use an alternate breath test machine-- one that is completely transparent with no “secrets”—or discontinues use of the Intoxilyzer 8000 until the source codes are turned over and experts throughout Florida have time to perform a full examination of the machines for reliability.

Starting October 1st, commercial driver license holders convicted of a DUI will be ineligible to drive a commercial vehicle for 12 months after the first conviction and will be permanently suspended after a second conviction. This new rule also applies even if when the DUI was received in a personal vehicle of the CDL holder.

DHSMV already forbids CDL holders from obtaining temporary permits during the DUI Formal Review process. This new rule is just another example of how the State of Florida holds CDL drivers to a higher standard than the other millions of drivers on Florida’s highways.

In Connor’s 2005 DUI trial, Hillsborough county prosecutors--despite objection from the defense--showed the jury a picture of the victim covered in blood on the street after the accident. The court ruled that showing of the photo was unfairly prejudicial to the defense, essentially holding that jury would be so distracted by the shock value of the photo they would not be able to be fair in evaluating whether the State actually proved its case against Conner. This is especially a problem in a case like Connor’s where no one is contesting that there was a death or injury, but rather, whether the driver was sober when the accident occurred.