A felony is punishable by a year or more, and it prevents you from possessing a firearm ever in the future, under federal law. It will prevent you from voting and some other valuable civil rights. One of the main concerns is it will prevent you from getting a lot of different kinds of jobs […]
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Driving a minor passenger while intoxicated – child abuse
In cases such as these it is essential that you fight the DWI because New Mexico courts have ruled that having a child in your car while committing any kind of DWI is, in itself, child abuse. You can’t argue things to the jury like, “Well, it was 0.08, but they were driving safely.” You […]
Can I reduce my plea to a moving violation?
Sometimes you can, but the case is going to need to have real problems for the state, which, if you have declined to submit to the Standard Field Sobriety Test, and you have declined to give a breath sample, is going to be that kind of case for the prosecution. Those are the kinds of […]
DWI: How does my plea affect my driving record?
It’s very case-specific. If you drive for a living, pleading guilty to a DWI will affect your ability to do that because you are going to lose your commercial driver’s license, at least temporarily. Depending on the case, you can negotiate things down to careless driving or something like that prevents you from having a […]
Negotiating a plea bargain
One of the main jobs of a criminal defense attorney is to carefully collect and analyze all of the evidence in the case to see if there are issues that can get the case thrown out, or ways that you can potentially win the case at a jury trial. If, after all of that review, […]
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