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Syracuse DWI Lawyers

• Aurora Flores: Being charged with a crime is nothing anyone wants, or expects to happen. But when it happens, it is essential that you have an aggressive defense. A criminal conviction, even for a misdemeanor, can have serious consequences. You may be forced to pay large fines, forfeit property, and even serve jail or prison time. The government will work hard to convict you. You need an attorney that will work hard to defend you.
• Donald Kelly: Its crucial to hire experienced legal counsel if you took a Breathalyzer or blood alcohol test in connection with your charges. The state is gathering evidence against you that you will be unable to defend on your own. By hiring our criminal defense DUI attorneys, you will have a much greater chance of contesting the evidence in order to have the charges reduced or dismissed altogether, possibly saving your driving privileges, your ability to go to work, and other freedoms you take for granted.
• Craig Schlanger: If you are arrested for breaking a criminal law, the case is taken before a magistrate who may issue a warrant if necessary and set bond for appearance in court. If the defendant cannot post the bond he may be incarcerated pending appearance in court. If bond is posted, he will remain free pending appearance at an arraignment. An arraignment usually occurs within 24 hours of the arrest or the first date available if on a weekend or holiday. The arraignment is held before a judge of the courts. During the arraignment the defendant is formally told what offense he is charged with, told their constitutional rights, and of the possible penalties. The defendant will enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, bond may be reviewed, and a date for the next hearing will be scheduled.
• Raymond Dague: Traffic offenses are usually violations, although some charges such as driving while intoxicated (DWI) are misdemeanors and felonies in New York State.
• Huling & Pacheco: DUI is shorthand for Driving Under the Influence. A person is guilty of DUI if he or she drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle and is under the influence of alcoholic beverages or any chemical or controlled substance to the extent that his or her mental faculties are impaired or when his or her blood alcohol level (BAC) is above the legal limit for the state.
• James S. Chatwin: Thousands of motorists are charged with DWI each year on the roads and highways of New York. Unfortunately, the way our laws are going, even if you have a small amount of alcohol and are not impaired - as long as you smell like alcohol or tell a police officer you've had a drink - your chances of being arrested are very high. If arrested you will likely lose your license to a suspension pending prosecution. If an aggressive attorney is retained early, however, it is very possible that your driving privileges can be restored by application to the court.
• Dennis Claus: A DWI case is the only one in which the opinion factor comes into play for evidence. It is the arresting officer's opinion that you were intoxicated... that you failed the field tests... Only in a DWI case is there subjective evidence, the "voodoo science" field tests. "9 thousand 9 hundred and ninety-three steamboats... Please, officer, can I put my foot back down yet?"