Harsher Penalties For Wisconsin OWIs
May 18, 2016
In late April, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law a bill that significantly increases penalties for people who have been charged with a fourth
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In late April, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law a bill that significantly increases penalties for people who have been charged with a fourth
The idea that a person may only make a given mistake once is fairly idealistic. In truth, humans tend to make the same mistakes again
Here in Wisconsin, unlike other criminal charges, drunk driving charges cannot be removed from a person’s criminal record. No matter how long ago the charge
Many Waukesha residents will remember that Wisconsin’s drunk driving laws have been updated and tightened in recent years. In 2009, for example, the felony threshold
In recent months there has been considerable nationwide debate about the use of ignition interlock devices (IIDs) as a means of reducing repeat drunk driving
Since July of 2010, Wisconsin state law has called for the mandatory installation of an ignition interlock device (IID) for any driver convicted of a
In October, we wrote about the Wisconsin man who was charged with drunk driving after police discovered him asleep in his van in the early
We have previously written that Wisconsin residents sometimes get charged and convicted of DUI even though they were never seen driving their car. Wisconsin police
Just over a year ago, the state of Wisconsin enacted a new law increasing penalties for repeat OWI offenders. In July of 2010, a law
Earlier this week, we began a discussion about pretrial intensive supervision programs (ISPs). These programs are operating in 11 Wisconsin counties (including Waukesha) and were
