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Trial Draws To Close of Driver Accused of Killing Boy Scout

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A Long Island man “recklessly and selfishly” got behind the wheel of his SUV after pounding vodka on a golf course and plowed into a group of hiking Boy Scouts, killing a 12-year-old, a prosecutor said during …

High Court to Consider Challenges to Drunken Driving Test

The Supreme Court will decide whether states can criminalize a driver’s refusal to take an alcohol test even if police have not obtained a search warrant. The justices on Friday agreed to hear three cases challenging laws in Minnesota and …

New Jersey High Court to Weigh Alcohol Test Reliability

The blood-alcohol test used in drunken driving cases in New Jersey is coming before the state Supreme Court again. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Alcotest was reliable. It had replaced the Breathalyzer test beginning seven years earlier, …