Phoenix DUI Abogados

One of the most important things you can do after being arrested is contacting a qualified DUI attorney. One of the first things that should be done in an OUI case is for your attorney to send a preservation of evidence request out to the police department and DA's office. This puts everyone on notice that you want any and all available video and audio evidence in the case. That way, if the police fail to preserve the evidence as requested, your attorney has good grounds to get the breath test result excluded. This can have a HUGE and positive impact on your case.

Of course there are many reasons to contact my office immediately after arrest and this is just one example. However, it is a critical stage in the defense process and shouldn't be underestimated by either the client or the attorney.

When you got arrested for driving under the influence in Burbank, you might have been tempted to “fight back” against the police or engage in destructive (perhaps illegal) behavior.

Hopefully, you restrained yourself from making your situation worse.

For an object lesson about what can happen, let’s take a look at the recent DUI arrest of “Teen Mom” star Farrah Abraham. The 21-year old mother (of a 4-year old girl) got busted for DUI in Nebraska on St. Patrick’s Day. She “fought cops tooth and nail” – literally – according to TMZ reports.

Per the Omaha Police Department, Abraham almost swerved into a cop car, precipitating police to investigate and ultimately arrest her under suspicion of DUI. She did not go quietly. She “banged her head against the (police car) window while yelling and screaming.”

We’ve covered a lot of stories about people refusing Burbank DUI breath tests. But Abraham took the concept of refusal to the next level. She bit it – literally. She put her teeth onto the tube to avoid blowing in. Ultimately, police gave her a different blood alcohol test and found that she had a 0.147 of BAC – nearly twice the legal limit for Burbank DUI (and DUI in Nebraska, as well).

The 21-year old told a very different story to the magazine In Touch. She said she was sick – that’s why her BAC was recorded so high – and that she had just go to her car to help her older sister (also a mother of a small child), who had been partying that night. According to the reality star “because I’m sick, I could not give an accurate breathalyzer test, due to coughing and shortage of breath.”

Meanwhile, the tabloids collected photos showing Abraham partying with her friends at a bar on St. Patty’s Day.

That evidence may not bode well for her case.

Of course, it’s easy for readers to sit back and judge reality stars and other public DUI defendants. But if you’re personally reckoning with charges – or if you know someone who is – you know that it’s no laughing matter.

Get in touch with a Burbank DUI defense attorney at the Kraut Law Group immediately to get clarity about your rights and possible strategies after your arrest. Attorney Kraut is a compassionate, thorough, an accurate ex-prosecutor – well respected in the legal community. He can help you manage your legal crisis with grace and common sense. Call the offices now to set up a free consultation.

Living, working and driving in the Garden State means that any motorist can become the focus of attention from a state patrol officer or a municipal policeman. The odds are, at some point in one’s driving career, any number of people from counties like Ocean, Middlesex, Monmouth, Bergan and Passaic will end up being stopped by a mobile police patrol for a driving infraction. Moving violations are one of the primary ways in which some New Jersey motorists end up being charged with DWI.

Whether one is arrested on the grounds of driving while intoxicated by beer, wine or hard liquor, or if the charges involve impairment through the use of either doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals or an illegal substance such as marijuana, consulting a qualified drunk driving defense attorney should be the first thought. This is so true these days because of the heavy fines and statutory assessments imposed on a driver convicted of DWI or drug DUI.

As New Jersey DWI trial lawyers, I and my colleagues have decades’ worth of experience in representing those individuals who find themselves on the wrong side of the law following a drunken driving arrest. Many times, a New Jersey motorist has been driving his or her vehicle out-of-state when they are stopped for a minor traffic offense, but if they have had a drink or two, the police may take them into custody and charge them with DWI. For these New Jersey residents who have, penalties drunk driving can sometimes be more severe than in our own state, depending of course on the circumstances surrounding the arrest and the driver’s previous record.