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The Decade's Top 10 DUIs

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Lists have me absolutely intoxicated today. I have already blogged about year-end top-10 lists, a decade-end top-25 list, and forward-looking lists of legal-industry predictions. But before I stagger off into the decade to come, my hindsight must pass one more nystagmus-gaze test and one more backward countdown. Yes, let us raise a toast to the Top 10 DUIs of the Decade, brought to us courtesy of the Check Points blog of TotalDUI.com. The list confines itself to celebrities, not the least of whom is Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte, arrested in 2002 for erratic driving in Malibu, Calif. "Nolte was described by officers as 'drooling' and 'completely out of it,'" Check Points says, adding that he once described himself as a "functioning drunk." California, not surprisingly, is the venue for many of the DUI arrests on this list. They include actor and comedian Tracy Morgan, arrested in Hollywood in 2005; actor Mel Gibson, arrested there in 2006; actress Lindsay Lohan, arrested in 2007 in Santa Monica; and "24" star Kiefer Sutherland, arrested in Hollywood in 2007 on his second DUI, resulting in mandatory jail time. Check Points mentions a number of celebrity DUI arrests that did not make its top-10...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).