What should a person expect if they are arrested for drunk driving?

If you are arrested for drunk driving or someone you care about is, your nightmare is about to begin. Number one, you can expect to pay a significant amount of money if you expect to be well-represented and it’s essential that you are because drunk driving is a serious misdemeanor. You can go to jail for drunk driving, your insurance will go up for years and years and years to come, it will affect your life in ways you cannot even imagine, it can affect your ability to drive, so it’s essential that if you are charged with DUI, that you have an experienced DUI lawyer, a lawyer who’s handled hundreds of these cases successfully. And successful is different, each case is different. It depends on whether you took field sobriety test, it depends on whether you breathe into a breathalyzer, it depends on whether there was an accident, whether blood was taken, there are so many different factors that go into representing somebody for DUI. It’s essential you have an experienced DUI defense lawyer in these cases.

By Jeffrey S. Weiner, P.A.