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Are You Charged with Driving While Intoxicated, a DWI or a DUI?
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No matter what you call it, the consequences can be significant. It is important that you not only know your legal rights, but also what defenses you may have available to you. Having an experienced, knowledgeable and aggressive attorney on your side is only to your advantage. While the police have the prosecutor on their side, you deserve to have someone fighting for you.

Being a former municipal prosecutor, I have handled DWI and DUI matters on behalf of people that were charged with a DWI and / or DUI and the police who issued these charges. Allow my years of experience – and dedication to my clients – to work for you as I am extremely familiar with the DWI and DUI matters and refusals to submit to a breathalyzer.

Along with charges of DWI and DUI, I have also successfully handled many drug charges, disorderly person's offenses, criminal charges and various traffic offenses such as: speeding, refusal to submit to a breathalyzer, driving while suspended, driving without insurance, reckless driving, passing a stopped school bus, leaving the scene of an accident and almost every other type traffic offense.

My goal is to eliminate or reduce the points or consequences that you may face. Again, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

The Do's and Don'ts When Stopped for Drunk Driving and / or Arrested for Drunk Driving

Do:

Have your driver's license, registration, and insurance card ready
for police.
Submit to a "pat down" search, handcuffing and arrest.
Ask for a lawyer.
Be polite.
Give a breath sample.
Submit to fingerprinting.
Go to a hospital or doctor as soon as you are released.
Insist that the hospital test your blood for alcohol.
Hire a competent lawyer on the next business day.

Don't:

Answer police questions.
Volunteer information or engage in small talk.
Lie.
Consent to police searching your car.
Do balance tests.
Consent to blood tests.

DWI / DUI

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Penalties chart

If you are found guilty of a DWI, below are the following penalties:

DWI Mandatory fines and penalties

Alcohol or drug related DUI with BAC greater than 0.08% but less than 0.10%
License loss	Fines, fees & surcharges	Prison term	Community service requirement
3 months	$250–$400 fine $230 IDRC* fee $100 to drunk driving fund $100 to AERF* $1,000/year (for 3 years) surcharge $75 to Neighborhood Services Fund	Up to 30 days	12–48 hours IDRC*

Alcohol or drug related DUI with BAC of 0.10% or greater
License loss	Fines, fees & surcharges	Prison term	Community service requirement
7 months– 1 year	$300–$500 fine $230 IDRC* fee $100 to drunk driving fund $100 to AERF* $1,000/year (for 3 years) surcharge $75 to Neighborhood Services Fund	Up to 30 days	12–48 hours IDRC*

Repeated DUI convictions
Offense	License loss	Fines, fees & surcharges	Prison term	Community service requirement
2nd offense within 10 years	2 years	$500–$1,000 fine $280 IDRC* fee $100 to drunk driving fund $100 to AERF* $1,000/year (for 3 years) surcharge $75 to Neighborhood Services Fund	48 hours– 90 days	30 days and 12–48 hours IDRC*
3rd offense within 10 years of 2nd offense	10 years	$1,000 fine $280 IDRC* fee $100 to drunk driving fund $100 to AERF* $1,500/year (for 3 years) surcharge $75 to Neighborhood Services Fund	180 days	Up to 90 days (can reduce period of imprisonment) and 12–48 hours IDRC*

Driving while possessing drugs (CDS)
License loss	Fines or surcharges
2 years	Minimum $50 fine