Zero Tolerance Laws for Youth: FLORIDA

Zero Tolerance Laws: "Enforcement. Florida's zero tolerance law is a purely administrative law where the full enforcement action can, in most cases, be implemented at the scene of the traffic stop. The basic procedures are described below.

A lawful contact must be made with the underage driver before checking for a zero tolerance violation. This may be triggered by a traffic stop related to a violation of law, contact at a sobriety checkpoint, contact at a crash site or a consensual encounter with a driver under 21. Standard procedure calls for ruling out the .08 DUI offense before taking action on the zero tolerance offense. "

DUI and SR22 Insurance Question

"An sr22 is a form which must be filed by the insurance company stating that auto liability insurance (bodily injury liability and property damage liability) is in effect for a particular individual. (The bodily injury liability limits must be at least $10,000/$20,000, and the property damage liability limit must be at least $10,000.) The sr22 insurance is required when an individual was in an accident or was convicted of a traffic offense and was unable to show financial responsibility. Florida will require your friend carry the sr22 and its necessary liability coverages for three years."

Confessions DUI and the Corpus Delicti Rule - Tampa DUI

Appeals court ruled it was error to allow state to introduce defendant's confession into evidence before state had proven corpus delicti of offense of DUI with serious bodily injury -- There can be no conviction for DUI with serious bodily injury without proof that defendant was driving vehicle and was impaired at time of crash, and there was no evidence independent of her confession that defendant was actually behind wheel of vehicle at time of crash -- Conviction for DUI with serious bodily injury reversed, and defendant is to be discharged for this offense -- Defendant's confession was properly admitted into evidence as to offense of leaving scene of crash with injuries because victim testified that he was hit by car which fled the scene

Reported at 30 Fla. L. Weekly D2379a

Tampa Police - Top 10 DUI Arrest Locations for Tampa DUI

Tampa Police - DUI Unit: "Tampa's Top 10 DUI Arrest Locations
Ybor City
SOHO
MacDill (Kennedy to Columbus)
Nebraska Av (Waters to Fowler)
Courtney Campbell Cswy.
Dale Mabry (MLK to Hillsb.)
Tampa Palms
Kennedy (Dale Mabry to Westshore)
Howard (Kennedy to I-275)
Channelside"

Checkpoints for DUI in Tampa

Tampa Police - DUI Unit: "Sobriety checkpoint operations are conducted on a regular basis. The location of each checkpoint is selected based upon its history as an area that is frequently traveled by impaired drivers and also because of its physical suitability to conduct such an operation."

Tampa Police - DUI Unit Zero Tolerance for DUI

Tampa Police - DUI Unit: "TAMPA has ZERO TOLERANCE for Drunk Drivers

ZERO Warnings
ZERO Excuses
ZERO Driver's License"

Tampa Police - Wolfpacks

Tampa Police - DUI Unit: "A Specific area that is frequently traveled by impaired drivers is selected for the Wolfpack Operation. The DUI Units aggressively patrol the area and locate impaired drivers. Wolfpack Operations can be conducted at any time or place without prior warning."

DUI Defendants Skip Charge By Asking How Test Works DUI Tampa

"The Associated Press

SANFORD - Hundreds of cases involving breath-alcohol tests have been thrown out by Seminole County judges in the past five months because the test's manufacturer will not disclose how the machines work.

All four of Seminole County's criminal judges have been using a standard that if a DUI defendant asks for a key piece of information about how the machine works - its software source code, for instance - and the state cannot provide it, the breath test is rejected, the Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday. "