Phil Weinberg

Canada is VERY Tough on DUI’s.  If you don’t believe it’s DUI-harsh in Canada, please read this surprising article: “A Manitoba Zamboni Operator Was Charged with Drunk Driving During a Hockey Game.”  http://www.vice.com/read/a-manitoba-zamboni-operator-was-charged-with-drunk-driving-during-a-hockey-game-vgtrn. The same amusing but scary event is discussed in another Canadian news article is at:  “Manitoba police ice Zamboni driver with impaired … Read more

I got a second DUI or third DUI.  What now?  Prior Offenses and Repeat DUI Offenses.   If you got, in the last 7 years, a prior DUI or Physical Control conviction, and are now charged with DUI, you will face mandatory minimum (“enhanced”) sentencing if you are convicted of the new DUI or Physical Control … Read more

Ignition Interlock Device – “Blow & Go” – What’s Involved?  What are the basics? I saw an online chat discussion about Ignition Interlock Devices today at:  https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/3yj8g3/anyone_else_mildly_upset_when_they_see_ads_that/.  That forum discussion raises some additional and interesting questions, which I will address at the end of this blog.  But first, let’s look at the basics of the … Read more

Lynnwood Municipal Court and Seattle Municipal Court recent cases and results. In 2014, I represented an former alcohol-drug counselor who’d relapsed after many years of sobriety and was looking at serious jail time, probably two years consecutive, for DUI’s in Lynnwood Municipal Court and Seattle Municipal Court where he also got into an accident and … Read more

I saw this article yesterday (see link below): Mace and Knife Used in Disturbance at South Everett Condo. One person was taken to Providence Regional Medical Center with a non-life-threatening stab wound to the shoulder and Everett Firefighters treated at least one other person who was sprayed with mace shortly before 6:30 PM Saturday night. It … Read more

What is the Legal Limit for Blood Alcohol in Washington State and how many drinks does that take? Have you found yourself debating with others as to what the number of drinks you can have in order to stay legal is? Let us help. See our chart to see the the number of drinks and … Read more

Washington State DUI’s are Serious Criminal Charges that should almost always be aggressively fought and defended against . . . A DUI Means a War on Two Fronts – in the Court and with the Department of Licensing (aka “DOL”). An arrest for DUI (or for Physical Control) means you will have to face two … Read more

Washington State DUI’s are Serious Criminal Charges that should almost always be aggressively fought and defended against . . . This Includes Physical Control Charges. Nearly identical to a DUI (aka DWI) charge is a Physical Control Charge, as defined in RCW 46.61.504. Physical Control, which is defined as: “being in actual physical control of … Read more

A Washington State DUI charge (formerly called a DWI charge) carries serious, long-term consequences for the person convicted. There are mandatory jail sentences, the length of which depends upon how high your blow was, assuming the ‘drug’ was alcohol. For alcohol, a  0.15 or higher blow, or a refusal to blow are both considered “high blows,” … Read more