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2. Thomas Drake: Whether your case is heading to federal court or state court, you need a criminal defense attorney who will give your case the serious and strategic defense you deserve.
3. Quillan, Flanagan & Quillan: A conviction for First Offense DUI may cost you $5,000 in fines, court costs, probation fees and increased insurance costs. A conviction for Second Offense DUI in Tennessee means at least 45 days in jail, loss of license and maybe the loss of your job. Tennessee requires at least 120 days on a Third Offense DUI and a Fourth Offense DUI is punishable by up to 6 years in prison. You need a DUI lawyer who likes to try cases before a jury.
4. John Lowery: “Driving under the influence”, or “Driving while intoxicated”, is the term for alcohol-related driving behavior. It is responsible for nearly 1/3 of all traffic deaths in this country. Many of these impaired drivers are repeat offenders and all can cause a heavy burden of death and/or injury to themselves and to innocent drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. Anyone who causes an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol or another substance is considered negligent. Unfortunately, this is of little comfort to someone who has sustained injuries or lost a loved one in an alcohol-related accident. The driver convicted of DUI has the liability to pay for all damages, but may not be the only person considered negligent or liable. Those who provided the alcohol may also be considered negligent and liable for damages. Many states have laws which impose liability on bars, clubs, restaurants, or hotels which supply liquor improperly. In such cases, a business is expected to exercise due care and not to serve anyone who is obviously drunk. Even someone outside of such a business may incur liability for supplying liquor to a driver who subsequently had an accident, injuring or killing others. The host of a party may be liable in some states if he continues to allow a guest to imbibe after it is obvious the guest is under the influence.
5. Haymaker & Heroux: Our legal system is far from perfect. Persons who are innocent are sometimes convicted. It is not uncommon to hear of citizens being released after having been incarcerated for years. DNA technology has had a profound impact on the criminal justice system and has been use to prove that innocent persons have been convicted of crimes and wrongfully incarcerated. The fact that a person is innocent of the charges alleged against them should never lead to the conclusion that they do not need the very best legal defense they can secure. Any time your liberty is at stake, you need a lawyer. In the case of a DUI, your personal liberty is even in more jeopardy because, unlike other offenses in Tennessee, DUI in Tennessee provides for mandatory jail sentences if convicted. That means in Tennessee, if you are convicted of DUI, you go to jail. In addition, penalties for DUI convictions in Tennessee include steep fines, suspension of driving privileges, court costs, community service work, probation and attendance at an alcohol safety school, in addition to other penalties that may apply to unique circumstances. Also, currently a conviction for DUI in Tennessee cannot be expunged from your record. These penalties can affect your employment, financial well-being, relationships and virtually every aspect of your life well into the future. This makes it all the more imperative that you have the services of a respected Tennessee drunk driver accident lawyer to represent you when facing DUI charges in Nashville or anywhere else in Tennessee. If you are charged with DUI in Nashville or anywhere in Tennessee, you need a lawyer to protect your interests. Whether it is the firm of Haymaker & Heroux, P.C. or another experienced DUI team, you need an experienced DUI lawyer to represent your interests. Defending an individual charged with DUI in Nashville or anywhere in Tennessee is a highly technical area of criminal defense practice. While many people think of DUI as more of a traffic offense than a real crime, the mandatory minimum penalties that exist in Tennessee can affect a person’s life in a profound way. In fact, countless lives are affected every year as the crime of DUI is charged often and punished severely in Tennessee.
6. Hollins, Wagster, Yarbrough, Weatherly & Raybin: The greatest sin that an attorney can commit in a criminal case is failing to go with the client to see the pre-sentence officer. No lawyer would consider allowing the client to meet with the detective or the district attorney without the lawyer being present. However, lawyers frequently allow their clients to see the pre-sentence officer or probation officer without being there. The clients simply do not know how to act and do not know what to say or do and frequently give incorrect or incomplete information, which shows up on the pre-sentence report to the detriment of the client.
7. Willis & Knight: A Tennessee criminal arrest requires the immediate guidance of an experienced Tennessee legal professional. Failure to secure counsel from a skilled Nashville criminal defense / drunk driving attorney can result in serious penalties, including fines, jail time and a permanent criminal record.
8. Marlowe Law Offices:

   1. You have a court date scheduled generally within 30 days of arrest. This court date is called a settlement date/arraignment where you plead guilty and take their predetermined punishment or get a court date for a hearing and prepare to fight it.

   2. The standard punishment for a first offense D.U.I is 2 days in jail, 1 year probation, Drug and alcohol assessment and school, loss of drivers license for one year, $300.00 fine and court cost. Note this is for an uneventful D.U.I. you could be looking at greater punishment defending on the Tennessee County you are in and on which Assistant District Attorney you draw to prosecute you based on the date of your arrest and the circumstances under which you were arrested (i.e. did you cuss out the cop, did you almost hit his car causing him to spill his coffee, were you driving extremely reckless, were you knee walking drunk way over the legal limit).

9. Ryan McFarland: If you are pulled over for being "suspected" of driving under the influence, the stop that the officer initiates once he turns on the bluelights must comply with the Fourth Amendment. A common practice is for officers to patrol areas in which there are a high concentration of establishments serving alcohol and to look for suspected intoxicated drivers. The officer will often make a pretextual stop in order to investigate further. A police officer may initiate an investigatory stop of a motor vehicle, when the officer possesses either probable cause or reasonable suspicion supported by specific and articulable facts that a criminal offense has been or is about to be commited. However, Tennessee courts have held that neither drifting within a lane nor merely touching the dividing line is a sufficient basis to stop a vehicle.
10. Brent Horst: In all drunk driving cases, the prosecution must prove that the defendant's blood alcohol concentration at the time of the offense was at or above a statutory limit. In many states, the limit is .10 percent, but in others it is .08, and there is a national movement afoot to make that the limit in all states. In order to prove the requisite level of alcohol in the blood of someone arrested for drunk driving, it is necessary to obtain a suitable sample of the arrestee's blood, urine, or hair at the time of arrest. The use of a breath test is by far the most popular scientific method for establishing that drunk driving has occurred. Some defendants, however, have been able to successfully challenge the results of such tests in court, thereby preventing a conviction. An attorney experienced in drunk driving defense law is in the best position to advise a client on whether the "Breathalyzer" test results may be subject to challenge in his or her particular case.
11. Martin Sir: If you or a loved one is accused of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI), you need a lawyer on your side who is committed to defending your constitutional rights. That's the bottom line. Now that the legal blood alcohol limit in the state of Tennessee has been reduced to .08, its more likely that you or your loved one could be accused of DUI . Many drunk driving incidents are handled improperly by the police and deserve to be thrown out of court based on procedural or evidential technicalities.
12. Thomas Potter: When a court has ruled that HGN is a scientific test requiring expert testimony, there are two common standards that govern how a prosecutor should lay foundation for HGN evidence. Depending on the state, the prosecutor will be required to meet either the Frye standard for the admissibility of scientific evidence, or the Daubert/Federal Rule of Evidence 702 standard (or a combination of both standards). Under the Frye standard, followed in approximately16 states, the prosecutor must prove that the HGN test is "generally accepted" in the relevant scientific community in order to lay the foundation for the admission of HGN evidence. Under the Daubert/Federal Rule of Evidence 702 standard, also followed in approximately 16 states, an expert may give opinion testimony on HGN evidence only if three conditions are satisfied: 1. Testimony is based on sufficient facts or data; 2. Testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and 3. The witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case. Other states have adopted their own standards for the admissibility of scientific evidence such as HGN, and others have not addressed the issue of admissibility at all.
13. Longaberger & Messer: Each year in Nashville only about fifteen people charged with DUI actually have their case decided at trial. Two thirds of Nashvilles DUI cases are settled within a few months. The remaining one third proceed to criminal court and may take up to a year to be resolved. Ninety eight percent of those charged with DUI in Nashville over the past four years have pled guilty to something.
14. Cynthia Bohn: Drunk Driving, or DUI, is a serious offense. But it starts with a guess: does the police officer think that you were drinking too much? The consequences can be severe - just a first conviction can result in a large fine, two days in jail and a one year license suspension. The Tennessee Department of Safety says that you can plan on spending over $4,900 for a first offense. An experienced attorney can help you find ways to defend the accusation, and to mitigate the damage.
15. Robin McKinney: The first line of defense is to challenge the reason that you were stopped. There are bad stops! There are many things that you need to do before appearing in front of a judge.
16. Lawyer Fowlkes: The crime of drunk driving is generally defined in two ways: (1) having a blood alcohol content above the limit set by law, or (2) driving under the influence of alcohol.
17. Lance Mayes: Traffic violations can have serious criminal consequences, particularly when a driver is accused of driving under the influence. A conviction on DUI/DWI charges will result in fines and possibly land you in jail. In addition, your insurance company may increase your rates to an unmanageable level. In defending against an under the influence or impaired driving charge, you have many rights as a criminal defendant, including the right to cross-examine the witnesses against you, even if they are police officers. An experienced attorney can make all the difference in such a difficult case.
18. Tidwell Cartee: ...proof of impairment may be based on the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident. It relies on eye-witness testimony, statements of the defendant, and circumstantial evidence. The actual amount of alcohol in a person's blood stream is irrelevant since the focus is on whether the ability to drive has been impaired. Standard police tests for impairment include having the defendant walk a straight line with one foot placed precisely in front of the other; closing the eyes and standing with arms held out from the body and touching the tip of the nose when instructed; reciting the alphabet; and counting backwards. Other signs of impairment are the officer's observations of the defendant's driving, which often leads to the stop. Driving too fast or too slowly, weaving from lane to lane, and going through stop signs have all been used as evidence of impairment. A statement by a driver about how much he or she had to drink, and how recently, is also used as evidence of impairment when supported by testimony about the probable effects of that amount of alcohol ingested at that time on a person's physical abilities.
19. Gregory Clayton: If you are suspected of drunk driving (DUI) and refuse too take a blood, urine or breath test, you can be charged with violation of the State's implied consent law and your driver's license may be suspended. There is NO law in the State of Tennessee requiring you to take a field sobriety test. If you take a field sobriety test you are giving the police evidence that can be used against you in court. You don't have to answer any questions or take any kinds of tests that may incriminate you.
20. DUI Mike: More than one million people nationwide are charged with the crime of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) annually. Most of these people are good, law-abiding citizens who simply had a few drinks with dinner and on the way home were stopped by the police for a minor traffic violation (i.e. speeding, no lights, no turn signal). They then were interrogated ("Have you been drinking tonight?"), told to submit to a series of field sobriety exercises (which are voluntary), placed under arrest,and given a seemingly no-win choice of submitting or not submitting to a breath or blood alcohol test. Then it is off to jail.
21. Lee Martin: Being arrested does not mean you have been convicted of a crime. Examples of evidence used in a typical DUI case The defendant’s driving behavior: Was the defendant swerving or weaving? Was the defendant speeding? Or was he stopped for a bad taillight or other equipment malfunction. Can the driving be explained? Physical Coordination: if a defendant is having difficulty walking? Can the difficulty be explained? Odor of Intoxicants: does the accused smell of alcohol? Of course, this does not mean that the defendant is under the influence. Eyes and facial color: are the defendant’s eyes bloodshot and watery? Is the face red or flush? Can this be explained? Speech: Is the defendant’s speech slurred? If so, can this be explained? Field Sobriety Tests: Did the defendant perform well on the roadside tests? If not, are their contributing physical and/or psychological factors for poor performance. Statements: Did the defendant make any incriminating statements to the arresting officer? Blood or Breath test results: What was the result of the defendant’s breath or blood test? Are the results valid? Witnesses: Are there any witnesses available to either the defense or prosecution other than the defendant and arresting officer?