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17099
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Since 1997, North Carolina juries have sentenced four drunken drivers to life without parole after they caused fatal crashes. Depending on the outcome of a state Supreme Court appeals case, juries in the state may soon be ready and able to put drunk drivers who kill to death row.
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17705
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Several court cases prompted law enforcement officers to clarify the terms of drunk driving. In each of the three cases reviewed, the court ruled that some movement of the car was necessary to arrest someone for driving while intoxicated.
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17852
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The general statutes concerning public drunkenness and drunk driving are discussed and explained on a county-by-county basis. The application and subsequent punishment defined by each statute are presented in their entirety.
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18270
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For decades the North Carolina General Assembly has attempted by law to remove the drunken driver from the streets and highways of the state. Loeb discusses the various laws pertaining to the intoxicated driver and why some work and some do not.
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18307
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January 1975 was the effective date of an important addition to the North Carolina Driving Under the Influence Law--an addition that made it unlawful to drive a vehicle with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 percent or more, regardless of the actual extent of intoxication.
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18646
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Despite former attempts to deter and end instances of drunk driving, state legislators struggled with decreasing the number of drunken driving citations. In 1980, Governor Hunt instructed the Governor's Crime Commission to analyze the problem and propose a range of solutions. The committee's report and outline of recommendations for curbing further drunk driving incidents is presented.
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29950
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North Carolina authorizes the use of either blood or breath tests to determine a driver’s blood alcohol content depending on which test the arresting officer designates. This paper discusses cases and statutes pertaining to chemical testing and its use as evidence.
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29964
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The 1981 General Assembly rewrote the alcoholic beverage control laws by defining an alcoholic beverage as containing at least one-half of one percent alcohol by volume. The legislation has new implications to charges for driving under the influence, and for transporting opened liquor in a motor vehicle.
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29988
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The 1977 Session Laws, which rewrites the section prescribing penalties for driving under the influence of drugs or intoxicating liquor, becomes effective March 1, 1979. The new statute is provided in this memorandum.
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30001
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North Carolina authorizes the use of either blood or breath tests, depending on which test the arresting officer designates. This memorandum discusses the legal requirements for admitting chemical test evidence in drunk driving cases.
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30002
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The 1979 Session passed a bill that requires a person convicted of driving under the influence to complete an alcohol or drug education traffic school. This memorandum summarizes the legislation and discusses some of the changes that could cause problems as judges and others begin to apply the statutes.
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31383
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The Governor’s Task Force on Drunken Driving spent a year studying North Carolina laws and developing recommendations for stiff new penalties for driving under the influence (DUI). Since North Carolina ranked third in the nation in DUI arrests in 1980, a package of proposed legislation would make the state’s drunk driving laws among the toughest in the nation.
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31384
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North Carolinians Against Drunk Driving is one of many anti-drunk driving organizations that are working to change public attitudes, as well as legal penalties, affecting drunk driving. In addition to communication efforts, they are also monitoring to see how lenient drunk drivers are treated by the courts.
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