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How much is a serving of alcohol |
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 It's New Years Eve and it's time to review your alcohol knowledge.
Just remember that if you are planning on going out drinking, have a designated driver or please, stay home.
What is a serving of alcohol?
It depends on what you are drinking. Typically you will hear:
12 oz. Beer = 4ounces of wine = one shot of booze
Now let's quibble about beer:
12 oz. Lite Beer (4% alcohol) OR 10 oz Ale / lager (standard brand beer 5 % alcohol) OR 8 oz. Microbrew (6% alcohol)
What about Keg Cups? They hold 20 ounces of liquid when filled to the brim. This means it holds 2 servings of 5% beer—or 1.6 servings of 4% beer.
Let's quibble about hard liquor
A shot is a unit of liquid measure used for measuring liquor. A standard shot is 1.25 ounces BUT
NOT all shot glasses are the same
- Capacity range from 1-3 ounces. Most hold about 2 ounces. That is more than a "serving."
- Most do not have any indication of how many ounces they hold.
- Most hold MORE than one standard serving if measuring the typical
- Metal shot glasses ALWAYS hold much more than a glass “shot glass” of the "same size."
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So, how are you getting home tonight?
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New Georgia temporary license plates |
 The Georgia temporary license plate has changed.
You probably have started seeing them already: the new-style temporary license plates. Georgia now requires temporary plates to be printed—not hand written—by car dealers at the time of sale. These print outs are attached to card stock and posted in the usual place on the car. And dealers must assign each buyer a special plate registration number that is recorded in the Georgia Registration and Title Information System so that any temporary plate can be identified by police.
Dealers who are certified can also provide certificates of title, applications for vehicle registration, and title of registration electronically. Congratulations to the Department of Revenue Motor Vehicle Division for joining the electronic age!
See their press release for more information.
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How long has your Atlanta DUI attorney been practicing? |
 How long has your Atlanta DUI attorney been practicing—and why does it matter?
One of the most important things you can do to ensure a smooth legal case is to pick your attorney carefully. Your primary goal is to hire someone you are convinced will get you the best possible result. In order to do this, you need to ask a lot of questions.
You might be embarrassed or hesitant to ask basic questions to a lawyer, but stick to your guns. You shouldn’t hire a person who intimates you so much you don’t feel you can communicate with them.
The most basic question to ask any Atlanta DUI lawyer is: How long have you been practicing?
This question tell you about the attorney's potential experience. Weigh their answer carefully. An attorney who tells you he got is JD back in 1998 may sound experienced, but is he? That is when he got his degree—when did he actually start his law practice? What sort of law has he been practicing all these year? Lawyers can get listed on web DUI directories and referral services as "DUI Attorneys" with no experience whatsoever.
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 Don’t post your Atlanta DUI on Facebook
We know you’ve just been through a horrible ordeal and may have the urge to find commiseration, but do not, ever, ever, ever post about your run in with a cop on Facebook. In case you’ve missed some of my other posts about this: Metro Atlanta police and prosecutors use Facebook. They use it daily to catch defendants doing stupid things; to show a habit of drinking and partying. A habit of bad decisions. Or just to document any of those things. Once on Facebook, it is there until you take it down. You know you need to clean up your photos- but what about bad-idea posts? Yep, they are floating around still too. It used to be pretty hard to find and erase old posts on Facebook—until now.
If you have ever, ever posted something indelicate (who hasn’t?), or a photo of yourself doing bad things with people with whom you no longer associate, you can now go back and erase it. Yes, I know these things may be so old they aren’t really showing up in your profile any more, but trust me, they are still there. So go in there NOW and erase them. You never want to incriminate yourself. Go to Facebook now, activate your timeline and get deleting. This excellent article from Slate tells you how.
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Miranda Warnings during Atlanta DUI stops |
 Miranda warnings and Atlanta DUI stops
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently reiterated that an individual must be advised of his Miranda rights, including his right against self-incrimination, only after being taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way. Alco-sensor and other field sobriety tests given to a person under custodial arrest are inadmissible where administration of the tests has not been preceded by a Miranda warning.
Field tests help with the arrest decision
What does this mean for you? Under normal circumstances, police officers will only read the Miranda warning after you have been arrested (the Miranda warning is something with which we are all familiar with thanks to Dragnet and more modern police procedural shows: “You have the right to remain silent…..”). In a DUI stop, the police usually will ask you to perform field tests before they arrest you (field tests help them make a decision to arrest you). This means, before they have read the Miranda Warning. So remember, you do not have to perform field tests just because you are asked. But if you do, since you are not under arrest when you perform the field test, the results are going to be admissible as evidence against you in court.
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