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...proliferation of lawyers who take on drunken-driving cases is the predictable result of a national crusade to break the connection between alcohol and death on the highways. That movement has been gathering momentum since 1980, when the first branch of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed in California. MADD and its many allies have just had their best year. In 1983, 40 states toughened their drunken-driving statutes. At least nine passed laws mandating jail terms for second offenders; 39 states now have such laws. Eight states, most recently Wisconsin, passed laws raising their drinking ages...
Before Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)--a nationwide organization of relatives of drunk driving accident victims--began protesting the legal loopholes that permit drunk driving, the maximum sentence for vehicular homicide was an unconscionable two and a half years...
Groups such as MADD and Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD)--a high school group begun in Massachusetts--have started to spread educational programs. SADD members sign contracts with their parents about calling home for drives--no questions asked. But there are only so many people these small groups can hope to reach...
...Lawler, who is president of the greater Boston chapter of MADD, doesn't want sympathy. She says, "I can feel sorry enough for myself. What I want people...
...commission will hardly be breaking new ground. Outraged families of victims, organized in groups like Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), have doggedly lobbied to produce tough new statutes in half the states over the past year. Under a bill passed by Florida's legislature, a first conviction would bring a minimum fine of $250, plus 50 hours of required community service and a six-month loss of license. For a second offense, the minimum penalties would jump to $500 and ten days in jail. To step up the rate of conviction, many states have made a blood-alcohol level...