Salt Lake City Personal Injury Attorney

One way that an innocent person can get wrongfully arrested for DUI in Ogden is if the police officers at the scene mix up the occupants of a vehicle and arrest a passenger as if he or she was the driver. That is what happened to a man who was arrested for DUI in another state in 2011. Almost exactly two years later, the man's trial concluded with a not guilty plea.

The man was riding in a car that was driven by his former roommate. The roommate and another man were on their way to buy drugs and the defendant wanted to buy alcohol and had no other means of transportation. While on the way the driver lost control of the car and struck a gas meter.

People in Ogden who enjoy following celebrity marital dramas will be interested to know that the divorce between reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her husband, professional basketball player Kris Humphries, appears to be over. At least one news outlet is reporting that the former spouses, whose breakup just weeks after their made-for-TV wedding in 2011 made headlines, have negotiated a financial settlement.

The settlement, which was announced on April 19, appears to end Humphries' attempt to be granted an annulment instead of a divorce. Humphries had previously accused Kardashian of fraud, saying that she tricked him into marrying her as a plot device for her reality show and never intended to stay with him. If he had been granted an annulment, he and Kardashian would not have to divide their marital assets.

The legal troubles for the Utah Highway Patrol due to its former "Trooper of the Year's" alleged penchant for making false DUI arrests are continuing to balloon. The department could face a class action lawsuit from as many as 800 wrongfully accused drivers, some of whom may have been convicted based on the ex-trooper's dubious testimony.

As we have discussed in the past, the ex-trooper was once lauded by the UHP for making far more DUI arrests than her colleagues, up to 400 in one year alone. However, doubts began to surface and a secret UHP report concluded that the trooper frequently arrested drivers for DUI despite the fact that they had little to no drugs in their systems. The public later learned of that report, and the UHP fired the trooper.

"It's helpful to get married, if you want to get divorced." On the surface, this sentence seems obvious -- after all, you cannot get divorced in Utah unless you are married first. But the man who said this meant that cohabitation, or two unmarried adults living as a family with children, does not necessarily simplify things if the couple wants to split up. In the man's case, it actually made things more difficult that there is no divorce process for cohabiting couples.

Many couples are reluctant to get married, even though they are in love and plan to spend their lives together. Perhaps their parents got a divorce growing up and those memories contributed to that decision. But when a couple lives together for years and has children together, dissolving that partnership is likely going to be complex, married or not. And without the structured process of divorce, reaching a fair division of assets and child custody plan can be difficult.