Recent Posts in DUI

• Posted By The Bowlin Law Firm 30-Sep-2013

  Understanding the Fines and Sentencing of a First Offense DUI in Tennessee

  Tennessee Code Annotated §55-10-402 and Tennessee Code Annotated §55-10-403 prescribes the term and means of the sentences and fines related to a DUI offense. If you are charged with DUI, First Offense, you are subjected to a sentence of ...

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• Posted By The Bowlin Law Firm 26-Jul-2013

  Troy L. Bowlin Succeeds in Getting Client's Charge Dismissed

  In a recent case, a customer of a local tire dealer had driven up to get his tires replaced. The tire dealer believed our client to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They called law enforcement and the client was charged with driving on a ...

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• Posted By The Bowlin Law Firm 9-Jul-2013

  DUI Checkpoints and the Fourth Amendment

  An encounter at a DUI checkpoint between a college student and a police officer in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is gaining national attention and sparking much conversation around water coolers about the constitutional validity of DUI checkpoints ...

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• Posted By The Bowlin Law Firm 5-Nov-2012

  Tennessee Highway Patrol Planned Sobriety Checkpoints

  No doubt most drivers have encountered some sort of police run roadblock at which they were asked to show their driver's license before they were able to proceed through the roadblock. Such roadblocks are intended to be sobriety checkpoints and ...

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• Posted By The Bowlin Law Firm 8-Aug-2012

  Local Judge Grants Search Warrant for Blood Under "No Refusal" Law

  In recent weeks a Hamblen County single car accident caused a local Hamblen County Judge to sign a search warrant which allowed the Tennessee Highway Patrol to take the drivers blood despite the driver's refusal to give the sample. This result ...

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