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OWI is short for Operating While Impaired. In 2004, Michigan changed its drunk driving laws to eliminate what was formerly known as Operationg Under the Influence of Liquor (OUIL) and the lesser offense of Operating While Impaired (OWI). Now, OWI is the more serious of the two types of drunk driving charges when you are arrested. Only OWI causing death, OWI causing serious injury or OWI with a child under 16 are more serious. There is a charge that is less serious known as Operating While Visibly Impaired (OWVI). If you are charged with OWI there are many options and you should not give up your right to a trial without fully exploring them and without fully analyzing the evidence that the government claims that it has against you. Moreover, you have the right to an evidentiary hearing at which you can ask the judge to throw out the evidence against you if the police violated your constitutional rights. Mike Nichols is certified by the manufacturer of the breath test device used in Michigan as competent in the theory and operation of the Datamaster.

Latest Operating While Impaired News

How We Practice Leadership In Educating Other Lawyers on the “New” Evidential Breath Alcohol Test Device

The State of Michigan Department of State Police (MSP) decided to switch to a new device for sampling human breath in drunk driving investigations. The new device, the “Intoxilyzer 9000” was purchased through a multi-million dollar contract with CMI, Inc., based in Owensboro, Kentucky. Over 50 lawyers made the trip to the Michigan State University […]

Expecting East Lansing’s St Patrick’s Day to be “Off the Hook” – Here’s a Tip on How Not to Answer Certain ELPD Questions

It will be the first St. Patrick’s Day in East Lansing that will allow for full-tilt celebrations without restrictions. Social media is blowing up. If you are out and about and have alcohol on board, there is a trick that some ELPD officers are using to “box in” people who are about to be arrested […]

The Supreme Court 4th Amendment Precedent in the “Rodriguez” Case Leads to Complete Dismissal of Felony OWI Charges

The Nichols Law Firm recently represented a client in the 80th District Court, which is Clare County Michigan. The county seat is Harrison. The client was charged with Felony Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) because of an allegation that it was his third offense, which is what made it a felony charge. After the NLF team […]

The latest on the #badbreathscandal

Just when I thought the befoggery and dodgery could not be more blatant and plain, the Michigan State Police pulls a move to muddle yet again: this time they tell the witnesses who allegedly are the ones behind the #badbreathscandal that they are not to testify. That is right, we heard it right from the […]

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Latest Operating While Impaired News

How We Practice Leadership In Educating Other Lawyers on the “New” Evidential Breath Alcohol Test Device

Expecting East Lansing’s St Patrick’s Day to be “Off the Hook” – Here’s a Tip on How Not to Answer Certain ELPD Questions

The Supreme Court 4th Amendment Precedent in the “Rodriguez” Case Leads to Complete Dismissal of Felony OWI Charges

The latest on the #badbreathscandal

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