In 2006, a driver crashed into a road construction site and injured one of the maintenance workers on site.  A few months later, the worker died from of those injuries, which included broken legs and internal bleeding.  The driver, Elias Soto, was reported to have been laughing when he got out of his car, and [...]

An off-duty Bonita Springs firefighter who was on medical leave for a non-work-related hand injury was arrested last week after an automobile crash in the Fort Myers, Florida area. Charged with a first offense of Florida DUI for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 27-year-old Christopher Michael McDaniel caused property damage and was [...]

In Ocala this week, a motorcyclist was pulled over because the driver was naked and operating the vehicle erratically. A Marion County deputy spotted him early Tuesday on I-75, and later caught up to him at a red light to pull him over.  The driver couldn’t explain why he was naked, and didn’t recall where [...]

The extent of DUI covers more than just drivers of vehicles. Two bicyclists were cited in Florida DUI charges, after an officer noticed some cars ahead of him driving very slowly.  Apparently a bicyclist was in the middle of the lane with no reflective equipment or lights.  The bike’s operator, Oswaldo Davila, was swerving along the road, and [...]

Former Lafayette County Sheriff Dewayne Walker, 49, was charged with DUI in May of 2008 after being pulled over for driving 27 miles over the speed limit. According to Suwanee County court records, this offense was his third DUI and he had already been removed from office twice for public drunkenness.
Walker allegedly refused alcohol tests [...]

Miami-Dade DUI Defense attorney Carlos A. Canet, continued his efforts on August 3rd and 4th, 2009, to discredit Florida Department of Law Enforcement inspection procedures for Broward County Intoxilyzer breath test machines.  If successful the outcome could results in hundreds of breath tests being thrown out of court in Broward.  A very distinguished panel of [...]

Broward DUI Lawyer Carlos A. Canet, after months of preparation began the defense case at a hearing on a motion suppress breath test results that could effect hundreds of DUI defendants.  The main issue being considered by a group of Broward County County Court and Circuit Court Judges is whether the Florida Department of Law [...]

Attorneys in Sarasota County successfully argued before a local judge that the Intoxilyzer 8000 currently in use in Florida has never been approved by the FDLE. Carlos A. Canet, a South Florida DUI lawyer has long been familiar with the arguments made in Sarasota.
Basically, it was shown that there was much confusion over which infrared filters are [...]

Fort Lauderdale DUI defense attorney Carlos A. Canet is currently engaged in an important Intoxilyzer 8000 project in Broward County.  Mr. Canet is a DUI Defense lawyer with Miami-Dade DUI cases, Broward County DUI cases, Fort Lauderdale DUI cases and Palm Beach County DUI cases, and has employed the services of expert witnesses that specialize in [...]

Florida DUI defense lawyer Carlos Canet began his mission to obtain the computer source code that controls the operation of the Intoxilyzer 8000 in 2005.  A series of infrared light filters in the Intoxilyzer create a ratio of infrared light absorption intensity that is then translated by the machine, yielding results.  The machine is an [...]