When Michigan drivers receive traffic tickets, they may be tempted to pay the fine and move on with their lives. However, doing so could mean incurring points on their driver’s licenses, but those may not be the only points they incur. A driver could incur points with his or her insurance company as well, which…
Like other states, Michigan takes it seriously when an individual is impaired behind the wheel. In fact, a DUI conviction in this state comes with particularly severe penalties, including the suspension or revocation of the driver’s license. This article touches on the primary differences between those two options. A suspension of a driver’s license is…
The state of Michigan does necessarily consider a “normal” driver legally drunk until his or her blood alcohol concentration reaches 0.08%. However, if an individual has a commercial driver’s license, that legal limit for a DUI arrest drops dramatically since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration holds truck drivers to a higher standard. After all,…
Every day here in Michigan and elsewhere, someone gets pulled over and receives a citation for failing to follow the rules of the road. If you are one of the unlucky ones, and like most drivers, you do not consider a traffic ticket to be a big deal. However, that could turn out to be…
At the beginning of the year, the state of Michigan took all 203 of its alcohol breath testing machines used at jails and police stations, not the ones used for roadside tests, out of service. These are the machines that provide the results prosecutors seek to use in court as evidence of DUI. Now, the…
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