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Huntington DWI Lawyers

• Huntington
  • Christopher Cassar:

    When I was a criminal defense attorney in Brooklyn, people who were arrested hardly ever gave a statement to police. Here in Suffolk and Nassau counties, people give statements all the time. The police will often tell the defendant, "If you sign this statement, you can go home today. I'll tell the judge you were very good and we'll get low bail." As a result, people will sign almost anything. It's one of the biggest mistakes you can make.

    You have the right, once you are taken into custody, to have an attorney present during questioning. You can refuse to answer any questions without having an attorney present. If you can't afford an attorney, have a right to a free lawyer prior to being questioned. You also have the right to remain silent. It's important to use this right if you are ever arrested or contacted by police.

    Police are in the business of making arrests. When they ask you a question, they are looking for information to use against you, not to help you. The police usually have done a lot of investigation before they sit down to question someone. People may think they are giving a very innocent answer to a question. However, the answer can be twisted and turned, and all of a sudden it is used to fill a gap in the investigation.

    People have confessed to crimes which according to later investigation couldn't have happened the way they confessed. We have all heard about rape convictions that have been overturned because DNA evidence did not match that of the perpetrator. In 20 percent of those cases, the person confessed.

    20 years ago, the county of Suffolk had a highly publicized case where the police tricked a suspect into confessing. The suspect was an 18-year-old who was accused of murdering his adoptive parents. The suspect had no blood on him and nothing to corroborate that he was involved in the crime. During questioning, the police told him that his parents were still alive and had said their son assaulted them. After hearing this, the son confessed to the crime. Immediately afterward, he retained a lawyer and recanted his confession. Even though police admitted that they lied about the parents implicating the son, the son was convicted by a Suffolk County jury. Police tactics in the case were upheld to be acceptable police procedure in the state of New York. The son has been fighting the conviction for the past 20 years.

  • John Arweiler: If you have been cited for DUI/DWI, you should know that the law gives serious consequences upon conviction. Andfor punishments drunk driving are even more severe for repeat offenders. A DUI sentence may require you to pay a substantial fine, serve some time in jail, or both. In addition to any fines or jail time, your driver's license may be suspended, even if it is your first offense. You will have to find alternate transportation and go through considerable effort to regain your driving privileges after a drunk driving conviction. To add insult to injury, many insurance companies will drop your motor vehicle coverage if you get a DUI. The companies that will insure you will only do so at a greatly increased premium. It is easy to see how important it is to protect your rights - and to do that, you need a lawyer who will work hard to stop these consequences from becoming reality.
• Huntington Station
  • Fazzini Law Office: Traffic infractions or violations are strict-liability crimes. This means that no particular criminal intent is required to convict a person of the offense. The only proof needed is that the person did the prohibited act. Strict-liability traffic offenses typically include such offenses as failure to use turn signals, failure to yield, turning into the wrong lane, driving a car with burned-out headlights, failure to use towbars when towing another vehicle, parking on a yellow curb, parking in a handicap spot without the required sticker, overdue parking meters, and exceeding the speed limit. Many jurisdictions provide for administrative processing of some or all traffic violations thereby removing them from criminal court altogether. In those cases, an offender is not subject to incarceration or large fines and is not entitled to a lawyer or a jury trial. (The fine for speeding tickets, however, can be quite large, based on the number of miles over the speed limit.) Conviction of these traffic violations can affect a person's driving privileges and insurance rates.