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Driving Under the Influence (DUI)
A DUI conviction can have long-term consequences for your future. It involves driver’s license suspensions, heavy fines, increase in vehicle insurance rates, and even jail time. To make matters worse, often innocent people are arrested and charged with DUI or their constitutional rights are violated. To complicate matters, there is also an administrative driver’s license suspension at the time of arrest. Everyone needs to drive in daily life.
Unfortunately, unlike most misdemeanors, a DUI conviction carries many penalties that are mandatory by statute. Also, the penalties are enhanced depending on prior DUI convictions, and can even become a felony.
Attorneys Wilson and Brewer know how the system works, and also where the cracks are. They have experience on both sides of the courtroom with DUI cases, and are ready to fight for you. In addition, they stay up to date with the latest in the constantly changing world of DUI defense. DUI cases can be extremely complex legally and factually. When facing with a DUI charge, having an attorney protecting your rights is essential.
Call us today for a free consultation if you or a loved one has been charged with DUI.
Step 1: Getting Back on the Road, DHSMV Hearings:
The ability to drive is basically essential to life in Central Florida. How else can a person get to work, to the store, etc.? If you have a commercial driver’s license or “CDL” it’s even more closely tied to your livelihood. If you’ve been charged with DUI, there is a limited time window of 10 days to challenge the suspension and attempt to obtain a hardship license. This process can be very complicated. We will help you through it.
Whether DUI-related or otherwise, with driver’s license issues,
we can help.
Step 2: Investigating the Case and the Intoxilyzer 8000 Breath Test
The next step in defending a DUI charge is to investigate law enforcement’s procedures in the arrest and the maintenance and use of the breath test machine, which in Florida is the Intoxilyzer 8000. Many of these cases involve constitutional violations, errors in law enforcement training and procedure, and faulty breath test results. These issues can result in evidence being “suppressed,” or thrown out of court, which prevents the government from using it against you.
Brewer & Wilson know what to look for and may be able to prevent your case from even going to trial.
Step 3: DUI Trials
If your case does go to trial, often these trials involve highly technical issues regarding law enforcement training and procedure found in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Test Manual. Your attorney should also be familiar with the Intoxilyzer 8000 maintenance and operation regulations found in the Florida Administrative Code. Even more, DUI trials can involve highly complex medical evidence, expert witnesses, and toxicology interpretation. Brewer & Wilson are prepared to fight for your rights and know how to present this evidence in trial.