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, […]
What is a plea bargain?
A plea bargain is something that you would try and do with the state, and sometimes it’s a finding of the court that reduces the punishment from what you would get if you lost a trial. Sometimes, it reduces the charges as well.
If I’m borderline intoxicated, but I know that I’m not impaired, do you still recommend not taking the tests when not doing so could elevate my case to an aggravated DUI?
Yes, because aggravated DWI doesn’t change the punishment very much, and usually you can negotiate to a non-aggravated anyway during fee negotiations.
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