A new specialized license plate could be coming soon to Virginia.
Its focus group? Drunken drivers.
A newly proposed law would order Virginia drivers with three or more DUI convictions to sport bright yellow license plates with red characters – a “Scarlet Letter” of sorts for repeat offenders.
The bill, sponsored by Del. Lionel Spruill Sr., D-Chesapeake, would [...]
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A Scarlet, or Yellow, Letter for drunken drivers?
January 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · DUI, General Assembly
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Ex-Mary Wash president guilty of DUI
September 19th, 2007 · Comments Off · DUI, Mary Washington
Former University of Mary Washington President William J. Frawley was in court yesterday on the first of two drunken-driving hearings he will have this week.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that in Fredericksburg general district court, he entered an Alford plea, in which he did not admit guilt but acknowledged the prosecution had enough evidence to [...]
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‘Civil remedial fees’ a hot topic
June 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Criminal Law, DUI, Traffic Law
As we noted on this blog in a post last month, the 2007 General Assembly set up a system to whack bad drivers with new hefty fines in the transportation bill.
Most of the new-statute stories in the general press before the July 1 effective date have focused on the new fees. See, for example, [...]
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‘Civil remedial fees’ take effect July 1
May 30th, 2007 · Comments Off · Criminal Law, DUI, Traffic Law
In an ongoing, never-ending effort to figure out how to generate money for transportation, the 2007 General Assembly came up with at least a partial source for funds: bad drivers.
In House Bill 3202, the transportation funding bill, the Assembly established a new system of “civil remedial fees,” the purpose of which is “to generate [...]
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