Criminal
Jul. 3, 2013
Concerted effort to quell DUI-related crimes sees success, but criticism remains
The past several decades have seen a paradigm shift in the American criminal justice system, a change that has led to stiffer sentences and more aggressive law enforcement for drunken driving and related crimes.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
On an otherwise normal afternoon in the quiet town of Apple Valley, Jeanette Willis toted her infant and three young children to T-ball practice. It was the summer of 1985, a time when drunken driving was more pervasive and attitudes about the crime were less serious. As Willis made a left turn near her destination, a man in a stolen truck and a drunken stupor slammed into her small car. His blood alcohol conten...
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