Tampa Criminal Attorneys Deal with People Under the Influence of Prescription Drugs
By Kolleen on Mar 29, 2010 in Articles, Society | comments(0)
A Tampa criminal attorney could use the case of a young Vermont woman who was six months pregnant with twins when a careless driver under the influence of prescription drugs crossed the middle line and smashed into the woman’s car head on. The pregnant woman thought she was fine at the scene but was rushed to the hospital for an emergency cesarean birth of her twin boys because they seemed in distress. The doctors were right, the placenta had ruptured depriving the little boys of oxygen and nutrients needed for survival and they were delivered still-born. The mother and father were devastated, but what came next was an even harder pill to swallow. The woman who plead not guilty to causing the accident could only be charged with causing injuries, not for the babies deaths because the courts did not see them as fully developed children – even though they were mostly developed – the courts ruling on babies still in the womb at the time of an accident is that they are fetuses and therefore not a human life.
A Tampa criminal lawyer could try to successfully argue that the babies born were breathing once they were taken out of the womb but died immediately afterwards. This would have to be proven medically, however this would make the charges go from causing injuries to involuntary manslaughter or vehicular manslaughter.
People who are under a doctor’s care for pain management and taking a prescription drug or more than one prescription that could impair a person’s judgment while they are driving need to consider all the consequences that they could face if they are taking a chance by driving and taking their prescription. Some of the prescription drugs are more powerful than ‘street drugs’ and could cause a person’s depth perception to become impaired or their judgment to waver when it comes to slowing down at intersections or behind another car.
Tampa criminal attorneys know the consequences of driving impaired and will help their clients to understand what those penalties are, especially if they continue to rack up the DUI tickets.












