DUI Law Firm of Jon Woolsey

07/02/2023

Why is the Sonoma Co DA's Office involved in this at all! This is a huge conflict of interest where the Sheriff and the DA work hand in hand on cases that don't involve one of their own. This case belongs with the Attorney General of CA. Someone needs to cry "foul"

07/02/2023

There's two different "injury" allegations in a DUI. Just with an injury and then there's Great Bodily Injury which carries far greater consequences! It takes very little to boost a charge to GBI when dealing with the Sonoma County DA...These folks whose house was destroyed are so frightened from this incident that they are leaving this home permanently.

07/02/2023

Natasha Whittinghill-Engram faces one count each of DUI causing injury and driving with a blood alcohol content of at least 0.08% causing injury, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office.

She had a blood alcohol content of 0.2% or higher at the time of the May 20 crash, according to the charges.

Whittinghill-Engram was arraigned Friday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court before Judge Troye Shaffer, records show.

Her attorney, Marty Woods, could not be reached for comment.

The defendant is scheduled to return to court Aug. 8 to enter a plea and schedule a preliminary hearing, which will determine if there’s enough evidence for her to go to trial.

06/30/2023

California Highway Patrol announces Maximum Enforcement Period for Independence Day weekend
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The California Highway Patrol will implement a statewide Maximum Enforcement Period beginning at 6:01 p.m. on Friday, June 30th until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4th.

05/05/2022

Been a long time since we've had a checkpoint in Santa Rosa. The last one wasn't very successful. Let's see if they've learned from their mistakes with this one scheduled for Friday, 5/6...I'm thinking they are after Cinco de Mayo celebrators.

A checkpoint aimed at intercepting intoxicated and unlicensed drivers is planned for Friday in Sonoma County, the California Highway Patrol said. CHP officials did not disclose the location of the checkpoint, but said they would announce the site on Friday. It is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday to 12 a....

03/15/2022

http://nixle.us/DGN8H

If this is Success I wonder what Failure looks like?

A total of 1217 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, which started at 5:30 PM and ended at 11:30 PM due to the rain. 971 vehicles were screened and out of those 18 were further evaluated for DUI and 15 for driver’s license violations. One suspect was arrested for DUI, seven suspects for driving while unlicensed, and one suspect for possession of an open container of alcohol in a vehicle. One vehicle was towed.

12/18/2020

A DUI-e, electronic, for driving while distracted by a mobile device?

In either case, both distracted and drunk drivers are more likely to be involved in fatal accidents.

11/18/2020

Hope that this spreads to Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin

District Attorney Founds County's First Expungement Clinic

11/13/2020

As the State of CA prepares to pare back probational terms for almost every type of misdemeanor CA has concocted another way to intensify probation for DUI convictions.

The Solano County Probation Department has begun using a one-year, $275,627 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to supervise high-risk, repeat DUI offenders with suspended or r…

10/31/2020

09/18/2020

Hard to imagine that this diversion bill will pass the legislature. CA presently has Military for Veterans and Mental Health diversion but District Attorneys fight tooth and nail to keep DUI offenders out of these programs.

AB 3234 would allow charges to be dismissed after completion of the program, erasing criminal behavior from the record, lawyers say.