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Immediately contact an attorney that specializes in drunk driving defense The situation you face when arrested and charged with a DUI-DWI crime is one of the most tangled legal webs in the entire criminal justice system, and gets literally more tangled with every passing day. In addition, the police and the prosecutor already have almost…

Most people are so certain that being confronted by a police officer investigating a possible DUI-DWI offense will not happen to them that they make little or no preparation for the possibility. About one million people made that error last year, and not a single one thought it could happen to him or her either.…

What should you say and do if you are confronted by a police officer and suspected of DUI-DWI? No single answer will suffice for all people in all situations. In dealing with the police, here are five universally sound things to do, if stopped 1. If asked (or told) about an alleged traffic violation, do…

Will you lose your license under Florida drunk driving Law if you do not submit to field sobriety tests? There is no requirement for you to have to take any field sobriety tests. Therefore, there is no authority for the police to take your driver’s license if you refuse to participate in these highly subjective…

Whatever the reason, the police officer has just made the decision to arrest you for DUI-DWI and has placed you in the back of his vehicle. This chapter covers what you should do at this point. If you have already been arrested and if certain steps to start building a defense have not already been…

Who can refuse to be tested when being accused of Drunk Driving? Unless someone was serious injured or killed as a result of an accident related to your DUI-DWI arrest, you typically have the right to refuse to allow the police to take a blood, breath or urine sample from you. In other words, the…

Defenses related to prosecution’s ability to prove the elements of the offense, other than impairment. To be convicted of a DUI-DWI charge, the State has to prove each of the “elements” of each offense against you beyond a reasonable doubt. An “element” is an essential part of the offense charged. For example, “driving” is a…

I was asked to defend the man accused of kidnapping and rape. His former girlfriend had accused him. He was no angel. In fact, he was not only a convicted felon already. He had only the year before been released from prison. If convicted of these charges, he would be sent back there for the…

Kessler’s Rule Number One is never prosecute. I never have. I never will. The duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict. So says the American Bar Association, in Rule 3-1.2(c) of its Standards for Criminal Justice. The problem is, not enough prosecutors believe this. Instead of being a place to…

I suppose, when I have time to think about it, which is not often during the long day’s trudge around the verdict factory, that the law represents some attempt, however fumbling, to impose order on a chaotic universe. Chaos, in the form of human waywardness and uncontrollable passion, is ever bubbling away just beneath the…