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I get a lot of calls and especially over the internet from people who are visiting California and they end up with a DUI and they're trying to figure out what to do. Usually what happens is, they get pulled over, they're arrested, held in custody for a period of time and then they're given a tick...

What are some of the most common errors that you find police make when it comes to DUI cases in Los Angeles? Sometimes, police illegally stop someone and then the issue becomes whether we are going to be able to prove that they illegally stopped them. A lot of times, we will try to get the dash c...

In California, marijuana is now legal. In turn, that has caused a flood of DUI related marijuana arrests.  However, the bottom line is that the law has always been the same. For instance, if you ingest a substance, such as marijuana, and it affects your ability to safely operate a motor vehicle, ...

This is a good question.  People don't really know when their case might be filed as an infraction.  An infraction is really not a crime and is more of a public offense.  A DUI is typically going to be filed either as a misdemeanor or felony. You're never going to see a DUI filed as an infraction...

How Do You Stop Automatic Suspension of Your Driver's License if You Got a DUI in Los Angeles? This is a good question.  Obviously, all of us need to commute.  We need to move around in Los Angeles, and once you get arrested for a DUI typically the police are going to take your driver's license a...

Will I Face Mandatory Jail Time for a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Time DUI in California? Those individuals who continue to get DUIs are definitely going to be forced into jail by prosecutors and judges because of the fact that those individuals are tasked with protecting the public. They really take the ...

How Long Will You Lose Your Driver's License if You're Arrested for a DUI Case in Los Angeles? The two biggest concerns that people typically have with a DUI is, one, they don't want to have a criminal record and go to jail — those kind of go hand-in-hand — and then the second one relates to thei...

What Will the Judge do to You on a High Blood Alcohol Level On a DUI Case is Los Angeles When You Show Up for Court? A lot of people don't realize that the judges now across LA County — and there's 38 courts — are really taking hard positions on driving under the influence or DUI-related offenses...

The interstate Driver License Compact involves states cooperating with each other in exchanging information, such as, when someone has a DUI. For example, someone who gets a DUI in California who has a New York license could let New York know that they have a DUI. New York would have the ability ...

DUI charges can greatly impact someone's professional license in Los Angeles. If someone is an attorney or medical doctor, their governing board may have a lot of rules relating to criminal charges and DUI's. You obviously want to avoid getting a DUI in the first place, but if you are arrested fo...

DUI arrests have gone down due to COVID-19. There are a lot less people out on the street. I don't think law enforcement really wants to deal with people right now because they themselves are susceptible to getting the virus. Unless you're really making it clear that you're driving under the infl...

How are the Police Allowed to Arrest you for a Los Angeles DUI if they Don't Know What Your Blood Alcohol Level Is? This is an interesting question.  People get pulled over all the time and they get arrested by the police and if the police don't have your blood alcohol level in a DUI case, then w...

This is a huge question, because obviously, nobody wants to go to jail if the police have taken you or a loved one into custody.  Not only are you facing dangers in jail which has been that way in Los Angeles county for a long time, you're also looking at being exposed to the Coronavirus in the L...

A lot of people who are arrested for DUI's are obviously worried about what's going to happen to them, so they start seeking answers on the internet.  The standard resolution in Los Angeles county across the 38 courts for anybody who is arrested for a DUI is 3 years of probation, a $395 fine, plu...

Learn Whether the Los Angeles Police Are Arresting People For DUI's During the Coronavirus This is a good question because you probably have to assume that the police don't really want to deal with anybody during this Coronavirus because they themselves might fall prey to getting the Corona Virus...

What is the Likelihood the Los Angeles Prosecutor Will Dismiss My DUI Case? This is a big question that I've got from clients over the last 26 years of representing thousands of people charged with DUI's and the question is one that makes sense if you don't really know anything about the criminal...

What Determines How Prosecutors Will Deal With a DUI in the Los Angeles Criminal Courts? There are 38 courts in Los Angeles county as I write this post and not all of them handle DUI's, but most of them do — the main courts in the Valley — San Fernando and Van Nuys; downtown is the Metro court.  ...

I get asked this question a lot.  I think the reason I get asked this question is because people want to get out of the criminal system as fast as possible.  They don't want to be charged with a DUI in the first place.  They begin by telling me they have a clean driving record.  They never had an...

Can You Be Charged with a DUI in Los Angeles if You Only Have Your Prescribed Medication in Your System? This question comes up all the time where people are driving around and either get in an accident or the police pull them over and they've only got their prescribed medication in their system ...

What do you do if you are Arrested Near the Courthouse After Making a Court Appearance Related to a Los Angeles DUI? We see this a lot.  There's something called the H20 squad which is basically a group of law enforcement — part of the arm of law enforcement — that tries to stop people from drivi...

At a check point, the police map out an area where they think a lot of DUI drivers will be driving through. They set up their machines to test drivers' breath and assign people to take blood because drivers have a choice of breath or blood testing. They set up a perimeter and have law enforcement...

Typically, all of the courts in Los Angeles county, and there's a lot of them, will negotiate deals other than DUI's if you actually blew on the legal limit and the reason for that is because the machine that they're using — usually the breath machine — has an error rate of .02 either way. So, th...

This is a big question on a lot of people's mind.  Do they want their attorney to talk to the prosecutor about working out some sort of a deal for them related to their DUI charges pending against them in Los Angeles county? For me, it's real easy if the client has a good case that the prosecutor...

For many years that I've been practicing, a DUI would stay on your record for criminal purposes for seven years, but the law changed quite some time ago.  So, now in today's society, a DUI stays on your record for criminal purposes for ten years. Meaning, if you pick up a DUI and you have prior D...

The bottom line is, if you do something that causes a probation violation in a DUI case, you're going to get punished by the judge who originally sentenced you in your case. That punishment will depend on what the violation relates to.  If you get a new DUI, that would be a severe violation of your probation...