5 Things No One Tells You about Facing DWI Charges in Court
You’ve been charged with DWI or a similar alcohol-related driving offense. You believe that the charges against you are false or inflated, and you are ready to fight. While it may be tempting to go into a court counting on your innocence or good reputation to get you through, you may be in for a rude awakening. Consider the following, which no one in law enforcement will spell out for you:
- Be prepared to fight for your license. If you failed a blood alcohol content test or refused one, your license may be confiscated at the scene of the arrest. You then have just 15 days to request a hearing to have your license reinstated. If you don’t file for this, you will have to forgo having your license for 40 days and will have to pay a reinstatement fee, if you are allowed to have it reinstated.
- Breathalyzer tests and field sobriety tests are both seriously flawed mechanisms of testing intoxication. Even blood alcohol content tests sometimes give false results. Don’t accept what you are told about your state of intoxication.
- Police and district attorneys will do everything they can to pressure you to plead guilty before your case appears in court. Don’t make deals until you’ve spoken with an experienced DWI defense attorney.
- Similarly, without consulting with a DWI defense lawyer, you may not realize if the traffic stop that led to your charge was unconstitutional. There are many avenues a practiced attorney can take in your defense.
- Don’t assume that you’ll get the same results with all lawyers. Your uncle may recommend the tax attorney who helped him out last year because he seemed like a great deal. He may have been for taxes, but if you’re facing DWI charges you want a DWI defense attorney fighting for the best possible outcome for your case.
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Don’t make the mistaking of facing your day in court unprepared. Call 210-587-6464 to speak with a San Antonio DWI defense lawyer from the Law Offices of Chris S. Barnett.
