how do you fight a DUI citation in california. it's not for me but a friend of mine. this guy's a 53 year old senior manager of engineers at motorola and he's an outgoing, friendly and harmless guy in every sense of the word. well, story goes like this...
tonight we went out for dinner and we had a few glasses of sake with dinner at a japanese restaurant. afterwards we went back to his house to hang out for about an hour or two and had about an eighth glass of port while waiting for the rest of our friends to show up so we can all head out to the local watering hole. i had a double gin-soda, hurricane and a pint of fat tire, he had a hurricane and a gin-tonic and that was that, an hour later we went to the next bar, sat around for about 2-3 hours and i had a few drinks while he had only water. we left the bar and he made the u-turn on the way to drop me off at the girlfriend's house and before i could open my mouth to tell him that he's making an illeagal u-turn...it was too late, we saw the blue and red light in the rear view mirror...
they got him out of the car while they told me to stay in the passenger seat, they gave him the sobreity test and he did fine and finally they gave him the breatherlizer test and he blew a .088...
it's just his luck that it was a lady cop who had her daughter doing a ride along so an example had to be set, i tried sweet talking her every way possible but unbeknownst to me, my friend was already on his way to drunk tank while i was standing around waiting for his car to be towed and wasting my breath.
i do realize that because we live in the american society we've inadvertently aggreed to the entailing social contract, namely, the law! but i see this as a battle between qualitative and quantitative analysis. i've met people who couldn't drive after one beer and i've seen people who could drive after drinking everyone under the table and truth of the matter is, i'm not the person to place judgment on who can or cannot drive after whatever amount of drinks they've had but mike was doing fine with driving back to my place(3 blocks away) and crashing there for the night. so in a sense my opinion does not matter as far as he's guilty or not but what i'm asking is...
how do you go about fighting and having a high probablity of beating this citation if money didn't matter in so far that it didn't surpass the actual fine by...lets say more than 30%. i'm thinking the fine is going to run him around $15k + or - 5-6k, so my question is, can you beat this accusation spending around $15-20k in lawyer fees. the money's not too much of an issue but just having the DUI on record is. and if you can, on what basis would you be fighting this citation/accusation on. anything will help
it's rought time for him now because he's going through a divorce(splitting assets) and i'm hoping he has enough battery on his cell to retrieve my number to call me in the morning in case he needs bail.
so aside from criticism, i'm hoping for some good legal advice to resolve this matter as quick as possible because clearly any of us could be in this situation without denial at one point or another in our lives.
tonight we went out for dinner and we had a few glasses of sake with dinner at a japanese restaurant. afterwards we went back to his house to hang out for about an hour or two and had about an eighth glass of port while waiting for the rest of our friends to show up so we can all head out to the local watering hole. i had a double gin-soda, hurricane and a pint of fat tire, he had a hurricane and a gin-tonic and that was that, an hour later we went to the next bar, sat around for about 2-3 hours and i had a few drinks while he had only water. we left the bar and he made the u-turn on the way to drop me off at the girlfriend's house and before i could open my mouth to tell him that he's making an illeagal u-turn...it was too late, we saw the blue and red light in the rear view mirror...
they got him out of the car while they told me to stay in the passenger seat, they gave him the sobreity test and he did fine and finally they gave him the breatherlizer test and he blew a .088...
it's just his luck that it was a lady cop who had her daughter doing a ride along so an example had to be set, i tried sweet talking her every way possible but unbeknownst to me, my friend was already on his way to drunk tank while i was standing around waiting for his car to be towed and wasting my breath.
i do realize that because we live in the american society we've inadvertently aggreed to the entailing social contract, namely, the law! but i see this as a battle between qualitative and quantitative analysis. i've met people who couldn't drive after one beer and i've seen people who could drive after drinking everyone under the table and truth of the matter is, i'm not the person to place judgment on who can or cannot drive after whatever amount of drinks they've had but mike was doing fine with driving back to my place(3 blocks away) and crashing there for the night. so in a sense my opinion does not matter as far as he's guilty or not but what i'm asking is...
how do you go about fighting and having a high probablity of beating this citation if money didn't matter in so far that it didn't surpass the actual fine by...lets say more than 30%. i'm thinking the fine is going to run him around $15k + or - 5-6k, so my question is, can you beat this accusation spending around $15-20k in lawyer fees. the money's not too much of an issue but just having the DUI on record is. and if you can, on what basis would you be fighting this citation/accusation on. anything will help
it's rought time for him now because he's going through a divorce(splitting assets) and i'm hoping he has enough battery on his cell to retrieve my number to call me in the morning in case he needs bail.
so aside from criticism, i'm hoping for some good legal advice to resolve this matter as quick as possible because clearly any of us could be in this situation without denial at one point or another in our lives.