Driving on a Revoked or Suspended License

A charge of driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license is a serious charge. It is against the law to drive when your driver's license is suspended or revoked. It is also against the law to drive if you do not have a license and your right to apply for one has been suspended or revoked.

Criminal Offense of Attempting to Elude

It is against the law to attempt to elude a police officer by willfully failing to stop a vehicle if the officer gives you an audible or visual signal to stop and the police officer is in uniform, prominently displaying a badge or other insignia. If a police officer is in an appropriately marked official police vehicle when he or she gives the signal stop, whether or not the officer is in uniform, the vehicle driver may not attempt to elude the officer by willfully failing to stop the vehicle.

Double Jeopardy Defense in DWI/DUI Cases

Drunk driving defendants have challenged the constitutionality of the states' dual use of administrative license suspension (ALS) statutes and criminal driving while intoxicated (DWI) prosecutions with the so-called Double Jeopardy Drunk Driving defense.

Entrapment Defense to a DUI Charge

The defense of entrapment developed in response to increasingly severe and sophisticated forms of law enforcement "stings" and other encouragement of criminal behavior. Defendants have claimed entrapment in cases involving a wide variety of criminal activity, but the defense is infrequently used in prosecutions for driving while intoxicate (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI).

Criminal Offense of Impeding the Flow of Traffic

It is not uncommon for a state motor vehicle code to incorporate an individual chapter addressing the "rules of the road." One such rule is the prohibition against impeding the flow of traffic.