Arizona Criminal Law News

A dozen years ago, 3,000 drunken-driving prosecutions in Tucson were dismissed in one day – about 5,000 cases within a few months – because the breath-test device that said the drivers were drunk was deemed unreliable. Those numbers could easily

John Chester Stuart was out on bond after being accused of killing a Phoenix man in a January road-rage incident in north Phoenix when he decided to ignore his lawyer and take his legal defense into his own hands. The

TUCSON-A judge in Tucson has tossed out alcohol breath tests in 49 DUI cases and a defense attorney says the ruling could have widespread implications. City Court Judge Thomas Berning’s ruling says that breath tests are inadmissible because the company

On Jan. 30, Phoenix police arrested Barbara B. McCloone on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. Based on two breath tests, it was determined McCloone had a blood-alcohol content roughly three times the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

John Chester Stuart had one of the best defense attorneys in town and an argument for self-defense in a January road-rage shooting death in north Phoenix. Then, on March 26, someone filed a series of documents in Stuart’s name with

This week Arizona will enact one of the toughest DUI laws in the nation. Hardest hit are first-time violators and a new class of “super extreme” DUI offenders whose blood-alcohol concentration registers 0.20 percent or above, which is more than