Recent Case Results
State v. PL
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving after it was determined that the officer did not comply with the NHTSA procedures for administering field sobriety evaluations.
State v. KE
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving after the court ruled the blood test would be inadmissible at trial because the test was not performed within 3 hours of the officer stopping the client's vehicle for speeding.
State v. TB
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving after it was determined that the field sobriety tests would not be admissible at trial because the officer arrested the client prior to him performing the tests and did not advise him of his Miranda rights.
State v. WG
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving because the client's driving was not as described in the police report and performed well on field sobriety evaluations.
State v. SH
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving because the only evidence was the officer's statements that she had bloodshot eyes and an odor of alcohol on her breath. There was no less safe driving and no breath test.
State v. SR
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: The charge was dismissed after a motion hearing where the judge found there was no evidence to support the officer's claim that the client was driving erratically or changed lanes improperly.
State v. LP
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to a local ordinance violation because the officer's stop of the vehicle was illegal – the client was cited for not signaling while changing lanes but there was no traffic and there is no duty to use a turn signal when no cars are approaching from either direction.
State v. GO
Practice Area: Drug Possession
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: The charge was dismissed because the officer performed an illegal pat-down of the client.
State v. DJ
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: The charge was dismissed because the officer never observed the client driving.
State v. FG
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The client went through a road block and a drug-sniffing dog alerted at his vehicle. Drugs were found and the client was suspected of DUI drugs. He submitted to several field sobriety tests but refused a blood test. The charge was ultimately reduced.
State v. RY
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving because the officer lied about his training history and was not certified to perform certain tests.
State v. ET
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving after a motion hearing revealed that the officer lied about the cost of an independent blood test at a local hospital and violated the client's right to receive the requested test.
State v. ST
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Reduced
Description: The charge was reduced to Reckless Driving because the field sobriety tests would not be admissible at trial because the officer told the client he would be arrested if he refused to perform the evaluations.
State v. BH
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Dismissed
Description: Client was arrested for DUI after being stopped for avoiding a roadblock. The judge found that turning into a neighborhood 100 feet before the roadblock was not suspicious.
State v. AL
Practice Area: DUI
Outcome: Probation Violation
Description: The client was facing the remainder of his probation period being revoked for a second DUI arrest while on probation for his first DUI, but terms were agreed upon to keep him out of jail.