DUI and DWI Criminal Defense Attorneys

America's DUI and DWI Defense Attorneys

The Fenderson Law Firm
644 Cesery Blvd, Suite 310
Jacksonville, Florida 32211
USA

(800) 342-5384

http://www.dui-lawyers-florida.com/

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America's DUI and DWI Defense Attorneys have authored nationally published articles on defending DUI laws and DWI laws and are former DUI Prosecutors who have given DUI defense seminars to other lawyers on DUI laws, DUI defense and DWI defense. America’s DUI Lawyers are prepared to confront an ever widening array of drunk driving scientific procedures, DUI breath alcohol machines, breathalyzers and DWI blood tests offered against DUI defendants in court and at suspension and implied consent hearings which are designed to prove their client's guilt. DUI Attorneys must understand scientific techniques involved in breathalyzer and blood tests, and how to question their reliability, accuracy, and validity. If you want a top drunk driving defense lawyer to represent you in your DUI or DWI case, you have come to the right place. Hire one of America’s DUI and DWI Defense Attorneys to represent you now. A well-skilled DUI Attorney or DUI Lawyer can make all the difference.

Facing a drunk driving charge like Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) can be a harrowing experience. The prospect of DUI penalties such as jail, or the loss of a driver’s license, is not pleasant to contemplate. Your freedom and ability to make a living may be at stake. That is why it is important to get a DUI attorney, DWI attorney, Drunk Driving lawyer or Drunk Driving Attorneys knowledgeable about all facets of DUI laws and DWI cases to represent you. These attorneys know how to beat a DWI or beat a DUI. If you have received a ticket for Driving Under Influence, call us immediately.

A DUI, DWI or Drunk Driving arrest does not have to result in a conviction. Even if you have been arrested based upon a drug, drugs, cannabis, marijuana or cocaine in your system while driving, they can help defend you. DUI lawyers at this site are prepared to provide you with the best DUI and DWI representation possible. The DUI lawyers listed in America's DUI & DWI Defense Lawyers include those attorneys and lawyers who have earned their reputations in the field of DUI Defense, DWI Defense and Drunk Driving Defense. Whether you have been arrested for a DUI DWI Drunk Driving, Driving under the Influence of Alcohol, DUI Drugs, or Driving While Intoxicated, these attorneys and lawyers are prepared to defend you.

Practice Areas

America's DUI and DWI Defense Attorneys provide legal services in several aspects of law but specialize in DUI/DWI offenses:

- DUI/DWI Law

License suspension or revocation traditionally follows conviction for alcohol-impaired driving. Under a procedure called administrative license suspension, licenses are taken before conviction when a driver fails or refuses to take a chemical test. Because administrative license suspension laws are independent of criminal procedures and are invoked right after arrest, they've been found to be more effective than traditional post-conviction sanctions. Forty-one states and the District of Columbia have administrative license suspension laws.

Forty-five states permit some offenders to drive only if their vehicles have been equipped with ignition interlocks. These devices analyze a driver's breath and disable the ignition if the driver has been drinking. In 30 states, multiple offenders may forfeit vehicles that are driven while impaired by alcohol.

Forty-three states and Washington D.C. have laws prohibiting the driver, passengers or both from possessing an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment of a vehicle.

- Challenging Field Sobriety Tests

Field sobriety tests are often used by police officers to try to establish probable cause for making a DUI or DWI arrests. Such tests, both in theory and in practice, are often not as reliable as law enforcement officials would like the public to believe.

- Alternatives To Jail

In many jurisdictions, if a person is convicted of a DUI or DWI offense, the judge has some flexibility, (within proscribed limits) on sentencing. Sometimes, the judge has no choice but to impose some jail time, especially on a second offense. It is at times possible, however, for a skilled advocate, to convince the judge to either minimize jail time or impose alternative options to jail, in some situations. Some possible alternatives might include:

Work release
Work furlough
Electronic monitoring
Alcohol or drug rehab program
City jail
Sober living house

- Alcohol Properties

Alcohol, like any drug, has distinct properties that affect human beings in different ways--as the following article shows. Sometimes, understanding the way alcohol works and is metabolized by the human body can be a key to a defense attorney winning a DUI or DWI case. That’s why it is important to hire a lawyer that is knowledgeable about alcohol and its properties. Consider hiring one of America’s DUI and DWI Defense Attorneys to represent you.

- Drivers License Suspension

A DUI or DWI conviction can have a significant impact on driving privileges and/or insurance rates. In terms of driving privileges, the length of a possible suspension or revocation may vary depending on a defendant’s previous record, and the discretion of the judge. The laws of the individual 50 states generally determine the driving privileges of a person within the state. Does this mean that a person can avoid the effects of a DUI or DWI conviction simply by going to another state? The answer is: probably not.

- Challenging Breathalyzer Tests

In recent years law enforcement authorities have come to rely more and more on breathalyzer tests in their efforts to establish guilt in a drunk driving offense. Breath analysis is a cost efficient and convenient method for police, and is probably less intrusive (and less painful) than, say, drawing blood from an arrestee.

Even with some inherent unreliability in various breath testing machines, errors may be magnified if police do not follow proper procedures, such as in calibrating a machine, testing blank specimens, or in making sure a suspect is not affected by his or her ambient environment.

The manufacturers of alcohol testing machines require routine checkups on the functionality of alcohol sensors to prevent inaccurate readings. Serious questions have been raised as to just how accurate the breath-testing machines are in reality. That’s why it is important to hire a defense lawyer who knows how to challenge breath tests in court.

- Challenging Blood Tests

Test blood drawn from the DUI suspect is an option available in many states to police under the states’ various implied consent laws. (Implied consent means that you agree to submit to a test when asked by police acting with probable cause to suspect alcohol use, or forfeit your driving privileges). Breath tests are more commonly used by police because they are easier to administer and are probably easier for prosecutor to introduce as evidence in a trial. This is because blood test evidence involve using more witness and a longer chain of custody for the evidence.

A good defense attorney may be able to challenge a blood test on a number of grounds. People staff hospitals and state crime labs. People often make mistakes. They might be new on the job, or improperly trained. Records may not be kept properly or maintained. A misstep in a procedure may invalidate a result. Just because law enforcement officials have taken a blood test that seems to indicate a result over the limit for a DUI or DWI, does not mean the case is over.

Additional Practice Areas: Breathalyzer Tests, Blood Tests, Drivers License Suspension