While drinking and driving is a serious offense with stiff and long-lasting penalties, there are several steps between being charged with DWI and being convicted of drunken driving. The fact of the matter, assuming that a police officer stopped the defendant on legitimate grounds, is that the state must prove…
As experienced trial lawyers and drunken driving defense attorneys, my colleagues and I often get questions from potential clients asking about courtroom procedure, state and federal law as it applies to DWI and drug DUI arrests or convictions, as well as how the police perform traffic stops that lead to…
Here in the Garden State, DWI checkpoints (or drunk driving roadblocks, by which they are also referred) are a common tool used by police departments to help decrease the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents, as well as to signal to drivers that drunk driving is in no way being tolerated…
Having represented hundreds of clients over the years, my colleagues and I fully understand the anger and frustration felt by those who have been accused of operating their car, truck or motorcycle while under the influence of beer, wine or hard liquor. Especially for people who may not have fully…
With the school season well under way, high school students are in the midst of some of their most important years as they work on making the grade while preparing to go to college in only a few years’ time. For many parents of teenage children, high school — and…
Being long-time trial attorneys skilled in the defense of individuals accused of civil and criminal offenses, we understand how there are some people who still are inclined not to take a DWI or drug DUI arrest that seriously. However, as professional drunk driving defense lawyers, we can say without much…
As drunk driving defense attorneys, my legal staff handles a wide range of alcohol- and drug-related cases every year. The defendants in those DWI-related cases have usually been arrested following a roadside police stop arising typically from a rudimentary traffic-related offense. Other accused drunken drivers may have been taken into…
Occasionally we run into news reports that illustrate many of the wrong things to do when trying to avoid DWI or DUI charges. Although the vast majority of New Jersey motorists arrested for drunken driving hardly expected that they would find themselves sitting at police headquarters and taking a breathalyzer…
Being charged with DWI is not a something that any driver welcomes, but occasionally a motorist faced with the possibility of a drunken driving summons will choose to decline the usual police request for a breath sample. To many people, given the option of providing or not providing a law…
Concern about one’s future can be a nagging thing especially when that future hangs on a courtroom hearing for marijuana possession in a car, or a cannabis-related drug DUI arrest. Not only is marijuana one of the most common drugs encountered by police in the New Jersey area, but arrests…