D.C. Personal Injury Lawyer & Attorney : Gabriel Assaad : Assaad Law, PLLC: D.C. Injury Law Journal

The District of Columbia has jailed over 200 people for drunk driving because numerous breath test machines were wrongly calibrated by D.C. Police. According to an article in the Washington Post, "D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles said the machines were improperly adjusted by city police. The jailed defendants generally served at least five days”

The District's badly calibrated equipment would show a driver's blood alcohol content to be about 20 percent higher than it actually was… All 10 of the breath test machines used by District police were wrong, he said. The problem occurred when the officer in charge of maintaining the machines improperly set the baseline alcohol concentration levels.

It seems that the person in charge calibrated all the machines wrong. As a result of the negligence of the D.C. Police, over 200 hundred individuals were negligently jailed. If you are one of those unfortunate individuals that spent 5 days in jail, I suggest that you obtain a D.C. personal injury attorney to obtain justice for your unlawful detention. 

About the author:

Gabriel Assaad has successfully litigated multiple cases on behalf of injured victims in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Assaad graduated from a top 20 law school and is a member of national and local organizations dedicated to protecting the rights of the injured. In addition, Mr. Assaad also volunteers as General Counsel to Mission Life Center which provided services (medical and social services) to people in need and Care in Action, an international organization providing AIDS care in Africa.

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Recently, I was retained by a family in Northern Virginia to represent them in an unlawful detainer hearing in General District Court.  In fact, the first time they heard that their house was foreclosed upon and sold was when they received a summons to be evicted out of their house.  For six months, the family has been trying to contact the bank and renegotiate the loan due to a hardship in the family.  Both the husband and the wife, lost their jobs during these hard economic times.

I was called in a week before the hearing with not much time to prepare.  Luckily, the Bank produced the Note to the family.  Upon review, I realized that the Bank did not properly pursue the sale of the house by foreclosure.  In fact, the accelerated sale of the house was unwarranted by the Bank.  In my case, there was an issue of fact of whether the Bank provided proper notice of default to the family.  The judge ruled in my favor when I moved to strike the writ of unlawful detainer.

Now in the end, the outcome might be the same, the family is still in default.  The Bank will just have to redo the foreclosure sale and can evict the family.  However, President Obama has passed regulations to assist families in default of their mortgages.  Maybe, just maybe, this family will qualify and the family will be able to keep their house.

In the end, read your note, you may be able to set aside a foreclosure sale by the Bank and buy a few more months to figure out a way to stay in your home.

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