Two-year sentence now firm in Nevada for injury, fatal DUIs
Feb 18, 2010 | BY MARTHA BELLISLE mbellisle@rgj.com ... Eight people convicted of drunken driving and killing or injuring someone are being removed from a house-arrest program and will be sent back to prison following a Reno Gazette...
Nev. Attorney General reverses course on serious DUI offenders after RGJ investigation
Feb 17, 2010 | BY MARTHA BELLISLE mbellisle@rgj.com ... Responding to a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said today that her office gave incorrect legal advice to the Department of Corrections, and said people ...
DUI offenders released early despite state law
Feb 14, 2010 | BY MARTHA BELLISLE mbellisle@rgj.com ... At least 40 of the 113 people convicted since 2000 of killing or severely injuring someone while driving drunk did not spend two years in prison as required by law ...
DUI offender: 'I am not sure if I will ever forgive myself'
Feb 14, 2010 | BY MARTHA BELLISLE mbellisle@rgj.com ... Jessica Winkle downed three glasses of wine with her salmon and joined others for the Champagne toast during a wedding reception at a south Reno home. And then she climbed ...
Editorial: Nevada's officials must stop undermining tough DUI laws
Feb 14, 2010 | ... the law clearly requires it. In today's report, on Page 1A, the RGJ's Martha Bellisle reveals that the Department of Corrections has been releasing many felony DUI offenders ...
Reno off-duty police officer faces DUI charge
Feb 9, 2010 | BY MARTHA BELLISLE mbellisle@rgj.com ... A Reno police officer was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of driving drunk and possessing a firearm while under the influence, officials said Tuesday. Derek Cecil, 42, of Sparks was ...
DUI offenders allowed back on road too soon
Jan 17, 2010 | BELLISLE, MARTHA ... series The Reno Gazette- Journal began its examination of drunken driving arrests in August. Reporter Martha Bellisle collected information from law enforcement agencies, court files, prison records, newspaper stories and ...
