The Causes Of Mark's Fatal Car Crash

David Smith had proven himself to be a danger to the community when he decided to consume significant amounts of alcohol and then operate a motor vehicle. He has since been before this court on these same charges three times prior since 2009. As a matter of fact, Mr. Smith is out on bond for his four Driving Under Influence conviction in which he is scheduled to turn himself over to the Bureau of Prisons to begin a three-year sentence. While waiting to begin his sentence, Mr. Smith still continues to participate in a lifestyle that has brought him nothing but destitute. The court has given Mr. Smith several opportunities to address his alcohol addiction. As part of all of his past three convictions, Mr. Smith was ordered by the court to complete an alcohol treatment program. Mr. Smith has completed these programs and promised the court that he would not return to court with these same issues. Mr. Smith has lied to the court and has preyed on the mercy of the court. He has proven himself to be someone who cannot be trusted and is a danger to this community when he drinks and then gets behind the wheel of a vehicle. Mr. Smith has hurt his family and now in recent events brought great sorrow to another family. With all facts considered that is why I am seeking the maximum 20 years, without the possibility of probation or parole, to run consecutively with his the three years that he is already serving for the charge of Vehicular Homicide Tenn. Code Annotated

The pickup truck’s owner arrived, the defendant got his keys, told him to sit in the truck, and gave him beer. He then got back under the truck to wait some more. Passerby’s alerted the police who arrested the defendant. He also testified that while waiting for his friend, he started sobering up and thinking things over. He removed the bullets from the gun and put them in his pocket, and made plans to have a party at his house with the people in the pickup. They were drinking and conversing when the police arrived.

This is Mr. Hartshorn’s 1st DUI conviction; there are no others located in his history. Mr. Hartshorn accepts and takes responsibility for his actions that evening. Mr. Hartshorn does not believe he has a problem with alcohol. He states that he had been drinking twice a week but does not see it as a problem since he has stopped before. He advised that he has consumed alcohol since the incident, most recently around two and a half weeks ago. This was discussed with him in great detail. Based on the above information, his history, and what he reported, it is this officer’s opinion that there may be a need for a structured treatment program, and it would be a benefit to Mr. Hartshorn that he obtain an in-depth substance abuse evaluation.

All over Canada, province to province, we as a country have been fighting against drinking and driving. Recently, in September of 2015, in north of Kleinburg a 3 vehicle crash created by a reckless and drunk driver. The accused, a 29 year old man from Vaughan, Marco Muzzo who constructed a 3 vehicle crash that lead too a six member family. Taking the death of the family of Jennifer Neville-Lake and her husband, Edward Lake. Muzzo “faced 18 charges, including impaired driving and dangerous driving causing death, after three siblings and their grandfather. The grandmother and great grandmother were severely injured” (CBC Vaughan car crash). Muzzo had past provincial offences involving alcohol and driving presented from the court records. The

Not every DWI (driving while intoxicated) case ends the same, some have different verdicts in the courtroom. The Ethan Couch case is a great example of why punishing drunk drivers should be more enforced and not so lenient. The teen from Texas was driving drunk with two other passengers in his pickup truck on June of 2013, when he hit and killed four people. Ethan Couch was tried as a juvenile and charged with four counts of Intoxication Manslaughter, but was only sentenced to ten years of probation. His lawyers argued that it was due to “affluenza”, which means that he came from a wealthy family and it prevented him from understanding what was right from wrong, so he was not held accountable for his actions. The judge who took on this case

(Note: The terms “DWI” and “DUI” are often used roughly interchangeably, but “DWI” – driving while intoxicated – is the term recognized by Missouri courts and will be used in this article.)

Now a day, driving while intoxicated has become America’s deadliest crime. There were more than 11,000 alcohol-impaired deaths in 2008, sadly those death were preventable if we had more severe Laws against this issue. Drivers are well aware of the Laws and consequences against drunk driving, especially after destroying families due to their carelessness decision. Victims’ Families entire life are ruined because of the sudden death of their loved one, and they are never going to be able to reclaim their normal life, while the offenders after a few days in prison reclaims he’s normal life. As a result of our fragile criminal justice system everyday road users share the road with repeat offenders who are highly resistant to change their

In the matter of only an average DUI charge and charge where vehicular manslaughter or murder is involved laws will vary from state to state. A normal inebriated arguing so as to drive case can easily be safeguarded points of field temperance tests and breathalyzer readings. However when you are looking at of vehicular crime

The first step in the criminal process is the arrest (Lane, n.d.). If the police office has seen Robin commit the reckless driving (which is a misdemeanor) he will be able to arrest him at the scene (Lane, n.d.). When he is arrested the police will take him into custody and he will be notified of his rights (Lane, n.d.). These rights are commonly known as the ‘Miranda rights’ and are the right to remain

Elliott Watson was arrested for the possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute said illegal drug. Elliott Watson was stopped by Officer Timothy Johnson because of faulty mechanical problems of Elliot Watson’s vehicle, which was sputtering and stalling out, and the vehicle also fit the description of a vehicle, a sports coupe, that had earlier, was used to kidnap a three year old young girl, Wanda Jones,

The Car Crash Study was done in 1974 by Loftus and Palmer that was aimed to test their theory that the language used in an eyewitness testimonies can alter the eyewitness’s memory of the event. They got 45 American students and showed them 7 films of traffic accidents, ranging from 5 to 30 seconds, in a random order. Afterwards the subjects were asked to describe what happened as if they were at the accident. They were then asked more specific questions such as, “About how fast were the cars going when they (smashed/ collided/ bumped/ hit/ contacted) each other?’. This was to see if the if the verb used in the question would affect the answers given by the subjects which it did. In the next part of the experiment they showed 150 students a one-minute film that showed a car driving through the country side followed by four seconds of a multiple traffic accident. Afterwards they split the students into three groups and asked them different questions. The first group was asked “How fast were the cars going when they hit each other?”, the second group was asked “How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?”, and the third group was kept as a control group and wasn’t asked anything. One week later they were asked, without seeing the film, ten questions about the film. One question asked “Did you see any broken glass? Yes or No?” which there was none. The results showed that more participants who were asked “How fast were the cars going when they smashed?” said

Immediately after the incident, the family was advised that the drugged driver would only receive a light sanction. This included an issued fine and a good behaviour bond for a few months. On March 31st, 2011, after fighting this case, a judge had sentenced the driver to 2 years and 3 months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 9 months for dangerous driving causing

On 12/12/2015 at 22:28 hours, while on DWI patrol, I observed a white male matching the description of a male who fled on an officer just prior to my pedestrian stop. I activated my overhead lights and sirens and conducted a pedestrian stop at the intersection of Good Intent and First Ave.

Driving under the Influence is a dangerous trend and is known to cause many critical accidents and deaths which could have been easily prevented. Even though the consequences for DUI arrests are strict, they seem to not be effective enough. The toll of alcohol-related deaths, repeated offenders, and accidents is still rising, leaving the streets dangerous and families devastated. Over half the drivers arrested for drunk driving in the nation, are repeated offenders. I stand strongly against drunk drivers; They are a threat to themselves and society and believe that they should be taught a tough lesson when caught. Therefore, the charges for Driving Under the Influence laws need to

In April of 2013, a young man’s life was changed forever. The man went to a party with his friends. He did not plan to get intoxicated, but the peer pressure ended up getting the best of him. He ended up getting very intoxicated and getting behind the wheel of the car. None of his friends stopped him from driving away while being under the influence. He thought he was fine because he was a couple of minutes away from home, but in reality he was endangering his life and everyone's lives around him. He was seconds away from his home. Knowing he lived on a one way street, the alcohol affected his sense of direction. Therefore he entered the street the wrong way. Not knowing that he was going in the wrong direction, he saw headlights coming at him. He swerved and sideswiped a family of four, but walked away