Almost 2,400 drunken-driving cases have been in abeyance while the court considered the case.

Passaic receives annual state grants to hear drunken-driving and other relatively complicated cases in the evening.

In the drunken-driving case, he was fined $350 and his license was suspended.

It will pay the salary of another assistant district attorney for drunken-driving cases in Suffolk.

It was only a drunken-driving case, one of the thousands of misdemeanors that clog the city's criminal courts.

When her son died, she was bitter, and she prowled courtrooms, keeping track of drunken-driving cases for no particular reason.

Mr. Arnoff also said he would bring charges that evidence was falsified in a drunken-driving case.

And while his trial has been perceived as basically a drunken-driving case with enormous consequences, the indictment brings new urgency.

The Supreme Court, for example, has directed that municipal courts dispose of drunken-driving cases within 60 days, if possible.

The charge has been used in a drunken-driving case in Suffolk just twice since 1980.