If you’re hosting a house party, it might surprise you to learn that you can be liable for a drunk driver. Serving alcohol to someone past the point of their ability to make clear and rational decisions can come back on you if they get into an accident, destroy someone’s property, or cause bodily harm to someone else. Here’s what you should know about alcohol liability in New Hampshire.
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When you’re applying for an apartment or a new job, usually your employer or landlord will want you to submit to a background check. If you’re a person who has never been in trouble with the law before, a background check will be smooth sailing, and you’ll have nothing to worry about. If you’re been arrested before, however, you may be nervous about your background check and what it can uncover. Does a DWI show up on a background check?
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In 2019, Governor Chris Sununu signed a law that will help streamline the process of annulment of convictions for marijuana from an individual’s record. This process, which goes into effect January 1st, 2020, will allow many individuals to clean up their records of non-violent crimes.
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In the state of New Hampshire and all surrounding states, it is a DWI offense to drive if you are found to have .08% BAC, or .04% as a Class D driver or .02 for any minor operating a vehicle. So what does BAC mean, and how does it work exactly? Join us as we explain the meaning behind the acronym.
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We already know what a field sobriety test typically is. Many of us have seen episodes of Cops or dashcam footage of officers pulling drivers over and conducting tests such as the heel-to-toe walk. Even more people riff on these tests, such as asking drivers to recite the alphabet backwards. While being hassled like that with a task you can’t really complete even when fully sober might be funny, field sobriety tests are a serious real life indicator that can help an officer determine if an operator is too drunk to safely be driving on the road.
What is it exactly that a field sobriety test is testing, and what kind of tests may occur? We go over the standardized field sobriety tests used by law enforcement today.
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