California Drunk Driving laws also distinguish between drunken driving and recklessness. If the charges are reduced to recklessness, the penalties are much less severe. A good DUI attorney understands the weaknesses in field sobriety tests and will use his skill and experience to build a strong and successful defense for you!
California has some of the harshest laws against drunk driving. It is important to realize that not all attorneys are equal.
Drunk driving is one of those road problems that really send the fumes out of each police officer’s head. In the United States alone, number of incidents and accidents involving drunk driving equals to more than 100,000. Drunk driving carries serious penalties. Although the court may go easier on first-time offenders, even in first-offense cases the possible sentences include stiff fines and jail time.
Experience does count, you know. Experience and familiarity with the court, court staff and personnel at the courthouse enable an attorney to accomplish things easily and quickly. A local attorney is a must!
Police evidence may require addressing complex issues concerning blood and breathe alcohol analysis. Punishment involves a labyrinth of statutes, requiring jail, fines, schools, license restrictions/suspensions, ignition interlock devices, vehicle forfeiture, probation, etc.; some can involve factual variables triggering so-called "enhancements", which further increase the sentence. Policy considerations are always part of the decision to prosecute a particular defendant, because the prosecutor's job is to serve justice in the public interest, not only to win every possible case. The defendant might have mental or physical problems that make a pretrial diversion program, like alcohol or drug treatment or a suspended prosecution, a better option than trial.
Police Officers make mistakes therefore a DUI attorney will investigate the arrest and make sure that all the evidence is true and everything was handled correctly. A good DUI attorney will evaluate and question field sobriety tests, as well as the results of a Breathalyzer and blood alcohol content tests.
Remember, your lawyer represents your interests. Your DUI attorney is not there to make it easier for the government to make its case against you. Remember most DUI police work the graveyard shift and are asleep during the day. Remember you are the boss; there is no reason to feel uncomfortable around your attorney. The DUI attorney works for you, you are the one paying the bills, remember that!
Utah is an implied consent state which means that anyone who has a Utah driver's license has agreed to submit to field sobriety tests if pulled over for suspicion of Utah DUI. Refusal to submit to a field sobriety test could lead to revocation of your driver's license. Utah uses two different machines made by the same company: the Intoxilyzer 5000 and the Intoxilyzer 8000. The technicians that maintain these machines for the government used to argue that the Intoxilyzer 5000 was state of the art machine.
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