Clarksville DUI Lawyers
- Gasaway, Carrie:
If you have been charged with driving under the influence (DUI), you have a choice to make. Will you plead guilty or will you fight the charges? Sometimes people think that pleading guilty is the fastest, easiest way to make the problem go away. However, a DUI conviction carries stiff penalties. Before you accept the charges, it is important to speak with an experienced defense lawyer.
- Phillips Law:
DUI (driving under the influence) is aggressively prosecuted in Tennessee, throughout Nashville and Clarksville. If you are pulled over for suspected DUI and exhibit the signs of a person who has been drinking and driving, you may be arrested and subjected to blood alcohol testing to determine your blood alcohol concentration, which will play a big factor in your charges, conviction and sentencing. The legal limit in Tennessee is .08%, meaning that if your blood alcohol level is .08% or above, you can be convicted for DUI.
If you have been arrested for driving under the influence, you will need the assistance of a DUI lawyer who can help you avoid the harsh penalties which often come with a Tennessee DUI charge. An experienced DUI lawyer may be able to challenge the validity and reliability of field sobriety tests and breath testing used to determine your blood alcohol level. Your lawyer may also be able to investigate the scene of the accident, if you were involved in one, recreate it, and prove that you were not at fault.
Enhanced DUI Penalties in Tennessee
In Tennessee, you may face enhanced penalties for your DUI. If your blood alcohol level was .20% or above, or if this is a multiple conviction, you will face more severe penalties: a longer license suspension and prison sentence, higher fines, and more. If you injured someone in an accident you caused while driving under the influence, you will likely face a felony DUI charge, where the minimum sentence is 1 year in a Tennessee state prison. If you were involved in an accident that caused the death of another person, you may be charged with vehicular manslaughter and face even more extensive penalties.
Any type of DUI charge may result in life-changing penalties.
- Patton & Pittman:
What could a DUI conviction mean for you? If you are convicted for drunk driving in Tennessee, you could face jail time, fines, driver's license suspension and other criminal penalties. In addition, you can count on having higher car insurance rates if convicted for drunk driving.
- Dewerff, Edward:
Pleading guilty to DUI scores you no points. Judges are not inclined to offer leniency to drunk drivers, and even if they were, their hands are tied by mandatory minimum sentences.
In most cases, you will need skilled representation in order to defeat the charges or negotiate lesser penalties.
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- Phillips, James:
"DUI" stands for Driving under the Influence and occurs when someone is operating, or is in actual physical control, of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or other controlled substance to the extent that their mental faculties are impaired and/or their blood alcohol content (BAC) is above the legal limit. Even for a first offense, penalties can include license suspension, substantial fines, community service, mandatory attendance at a state or DMV approved alcohol program, mandatory overnight incarceration and the required installation (at the offender's expense) of a car ignition locking device. In addition, a DUI conviction stays on a DMV record for several years, it typically results in higher insurance premiums, and an offender may become ineligible for credit. Plus, a DUI could also jeopardize your employment opportunities.
However, if someone was injured as a result of the drunken driving accident, it is possible the defendant will be charged with a felony (and if the victim dies, the driver may be charged with vehicular manslaughter). Further, a DUI conviction will likely be raised to a felony if it is the driver's fourth DUI offense or the driver has had a prior felony DUI offense within 10 years of the new charge.
- Michael Davenport:
When you need a lawyer for any reason, you deserve fast action and effective solutions that restore your peace of mind. You need an experienced legal team who will work with you to get the result justice demands.
- Jeffry S. Grimes:
A charge of DUI can be successfully defended.
There are so many things to challenge in a DUI case and so many areas in which an officer can make a mistake.
You can attack the initial stop made by the officer. You can attack the probable cause of the arrest. You can challenge the Field Sobriety Tests. You can challenge the performance of the breathalyzer machine or the blood test results. There is so much you can attack.
So many of the arrest warrants read the same in DUI cases. They go something like, ãAfter a lawful traffic stop, I approached the subject vehicle and noticed an odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from the subjectâs person. The subject had blood shot, watery eyes, slurred speech, and were unsteady on their feet. The subject was asked to perform field sobriety tests, of which they failed (or failed to perform satisfactorily) 2 out of 3 tests (or 3 out of 4, or whatever they put). I subsequently placed them under arrest for DUI.ä
- Aldred Law Office"
You can plead guilty and do the jail time and pay the fine by yourself
much cheaper than hiring any lawyer! This is seldom, if ever in your
best interest!
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