Interesting Blogs: Texas Personal Injuries, Auto Accidents, Criminal Defense and DWIs

There is no single cause of a vehicular accident. Generally, there three causes of road accident – drowsiness, distraction, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. These causes of road crash often occur together. A driver that is distracted is more dangerous than a driver that is int...

It just so happens that many times when you are training your teenagers, you teach them the steps they need to take if they ever face a car accident. However, when you are instructing your teenagers you should put great emphasis on the lesson and even build them a whole picture to help guide them...

Police officers look for certain signs to ascertain whether a person has been drinking and driving, including:     swerving; braking erratically; tailgating; weaving; or driving 10 miles below the speed limit. When speaking with the officer, the following can indicate intoxication: ...

Ex-NBA All Star guard “Mookie” Daron Blaylock was in serious condition a hospital on Friday after his SUV crossed the middle line and crashed into a van in Atlanta suburban, lethally injuring the rider in the van, a police reported. Police Chief Franklin Allen reported late Friday that Monica M...

The punishment for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) spans:  fines; driver license suspension; community service; and the conviction will remain on your record forever.  One of the first steps in the process is a civil proceeding called Administrative License Revocation (ALR) hearing. ...

If you have been charged with drunk driving under Texas' DWI laws, you may be facing serious and strict penalties if you are found guilty, which is why it's so important that you retain the services of a Houston DWI attorney who handles manyDWI cases and can explain your charges as well as the po...

If you've been arrested for a second Texas DWI, you will be facing significantly harsher potential penalties if you're found guilty than you would for a first time offense. When arrested drivers ask “What are the penalties for driving while intoxicated  (DWI)?” the answer often hinges on whether ...

When you're facing serious charges under Texas DWI laws, retaining the services of a dedicated Houston DWI attorney is crucial to your future. Law enforcement agents sometimes make mistakes during the booking process, and a DWI attorney in Houston can uncover mistakes made by the police officers ...

Houston criminal defense attorneys have come across a number of instances recently involving men charged with accessing child porn on the Internet after their Wi-Fi servers were compromised and illegally accessed.  These instances should serve as a warning to Houstonians who believe in leaving th...

A new study shows that children, who have suffered a traumatic brain injury, are much more likely to commit crimes as they get older. The results are not exactly surprising to Houston criminal defense lawyers, because earlier studies have also shown a similar link between brain injury and adult c...

Sleep apnea – a condition in which there are pauses in breathing during sleep – is a big contributor to truck driver fatigue.  Currently, there are only a minor number of truck accident lawsuits every year that name the driver's sleep apnea specifically as one of the causal factors of the crash. ...

Lawyers are too often characterized as greedy, dishonest, and faithless. Our society does not trust lawyers and often considers attorneys as a class entirely separate from the rest of society. And perhaps, the legal profession has embraced and promulgated these thoughts in an attempt to validate ...

As product liability lawyers representing victims of defective products in Texas, we're constantly monitoring federal safety alerts about unsafe products.  We thought that this recall would be one that many parents would be likely to miss. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is drawing attenti...

Texas sexual assault lawyers often see that sex crime cases are often built on a weak foundation.  A mother in Houston has been charged with online solicitation of a minor and enticing a child because she allegedly pursued  a sexual relationship with an under-aged boy in Canada. Lauri Price is a ...

As criminal defense attorneys in Houston, we know that Texas laws very often tend not to match the punishment to the crime very well. A jury in Smith County has recently shown exactly how bad a mismatch crime and punishment can be. They have found a man in Tyler guilty of possessing less than 5 o...

Far from helping control DWI rates, a system in Texas that slaps steep surcharges on drunk driving offenders and others, has actually contributed to case backlogs in courts, and more numbers of DWI cases being dismissed. That opinion comes from a former McLennan County district court judge, David...

A new iPhone app designed to provide an estimate of a person's blood alcohol content (or BAC) level is creating some buzz, but as Texas DWI lawyers, we worry that the app could lead to a false sense of security. The app, developed by the Colorado Department of Transportation as part of its New Ye...

As Texas DWI lawyers, we are aware of the stain a DUI arrest may place on an person's record. Now, an Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, Texas is making use of social networking sites to carry this blot on the record, online . The Montgomery County DA's Office is using Twitter t...

Texas DWI lawyers braced for Super Bowl Sunday, one of the biggest drinking days of the calendar. The Texas Department of Transportation too put to rest its traditional approach to preventing DUI crashes, and used humor to get young men – the traditional Super Bowl audience – to drive sober or no...

As Houston criminal defense lawyers, we believe that a valid appeals process strengthens our criminal justice system. This week, two convicted men who were on death row, had their death penalty sentences thrown out by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. On Wednesday, the court held that a jury t...

A new report has sobering facts for Houston criminal defense lawyers. Suicide is the number one cause of unnatural death among prison inmates in the United States, accounting for about 29% of all prison deaths between 2000 and 2007. Those facts come from a new report, called Mortality in Local Ja...

We've always known that being good-looking has major advantages in the workplace from faster promotions to larger bonuses. However, a new study confirms that the good-looking get a bigger and better break in the courtroom too. A study conducted by researchers at Cornell University, found that les...

The Christmas and New Year holiday season is when we can expect Texas DWI lawyers to be extra busy. In that context, it's important for motorists and partiers to know that in Harris County, an anti-DWI refusal program is currently underway. What this means is that if a motorist is pulled over on ...

Harris County's reputation as one of the DWI capitals of the country, has always concerned Houston personal injury lawyers. Last week, it was the turn of a few innocent children traveling in their family car, to be injured in an accident caused by an intoxicated driver. A drunk motorist driving a...

This is probably the reason why DWI lawyers in Texas are as busy as they are. A new survey released by Men's Health magazine lists the 100 “drunkest” cities in America. Three cities in Texas – Austin, San Antonio and Lubbock – feature in the Top 10. The survey took several factors into considerat...