Nashville DUI and Insurance
One often overlooked consequence of a Nashville DUI is insurance, both life insurance and car insurance.
I will first address the issues regarding car insurance as it relates to your DUI in Nashville Tennessee. Upon conviction of a first offense DUI you are eligible for a restricted license, however you must first obtain SR-22 Insurance first, [...]
Nashville DUI Vehicular Assault
How does one commit vehicular assault?
In Tennessee a person commits vehicular assault who, as the proximate result of the person’s intoxication as set forth in 55-10-401 recklessly causes serious bodily injury to another person by the operation of a motor vehicle, this statute includes both drug induced intoxication and alcohol induced intoxication.
A violation of the DUI [...]
Nashville Arrest
Sometimes I am asked what the difference is between a police encounter and an arrest?
First lets start with an arrest, the standard is measured by an objective standard meaning, not what the police thought, but what an ordinary person would think. So the question becomes would an ordinary person feel free to leave and not stay [...]
