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| Our news 01.12.2020 |
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Represent yourself
Can you represent yourself? What can a lawyer do for you?
You can represent yourself — although it is not a good idea. "Drunk driving" is a very complex field with increasingly harsh consequences. There is a minefield of complicated procedural, evidentiary, constitutional, sentencing and administrative license issues.
Qualified DUI attorney
What can a lawyer do? Nothing (or worse) if he is not qualified in this highly specialized field — no more than a family doctor could help with brain surgery. A qualified DUI attorney, however, can review the case for defects, suppress evidence, compel discovery of such things as calibration and maintenance records for the breath machine, have blood samples independently analyzed, negotiate for a lesser charge or reduced sentence, obtain expert witnesses for trial, contest the administrative license suspension, etc.
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Dui lawyer Santa Barbara
If the government is coming after you for criminal charges or a DUI, you need and deserve an experienced Santa Barbara trial lawyer. (You know that the government will have one.) When the government knows they're up against an experienced, aggressive and credible attorney, they are much more likely to be "reasonable." Don't settle for less, and don't let them run you over.
In Santa Barbara, when a person is charged with driving under the influence (DUI), he/she will have to go through two legal proceedings: the criminal proceeding and the civil proceeding. The criminal proceeding takes place in court and the civil proceeding takes place at the Motor Vehicle Division.
Your license
The officer took your license and served you with a notice of suspension after the breath test: How can he do that if you are presumed innocent?
Agreed, it is blatantly unfair. But the law in most states having a "per se" statute provides for immediate suspension and confiscation of the license if the breath test result is above the legal limit (or, in the case of a blood or urine test, if the officer reasonably believes the result will be above the limit).
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