For the second year in a row McHenry County DUI arrests are down.  Now the Sheriff suggests that the visiting Illinois State Police SET (Seatbelt, Speeding) enforcement team are the reason, but wouldn’t the presence of such a team increase the number of arrests.  (Unless everyone out there knew this team existed and took preventitive [...]

How far back should we look back when sentencing a person for DUI?  The Illinois legislature has answered that question …. since creation.  If a person is 60 and he received a DUI when he was 18 (42 years ago): that was 1958, we had no seatbelts in cars, children routinely rode on the speaker [...]

I know I have not posted in awhile, I have been busy.  Please note that the “comments” are turned off, mostly due to spam, but I would like to take a moment to thank all of you who come by every once in a while to see what’s new.
I have been practicing law about 18 [...]