El Monte DUI Lawyer
El Monte Courthouse
11234 East Valley Blvd.
El Monte, CA 91731
(626) 401-2200
With a quarter-century of legal practice under my belt, I've become intimately familiar with the El Monte court. I've successfully handled numerous DUI cases, giving me a deep understanding of the legal process and a strong track record of defending my clients.
One thing you have to realize is that once you get arrested and cited in El Monte court, usually what happens is that after you hire your attorney, your attorney will appear for you in court at the first court appearance, pick up the paperwork, which includes the arrest report, whatever your blood or breath result was, and all of the information related to the case.
Reviewing DUI Case with Prosecutor
Upon receiving the case details, I meticulously review the information and then engage in a discussion with the prosecutor. This comprehensive approach ensures that we have a clear understanding of the case before proceeding.
I will continue the case for a few weeks and give my client a chance to review everything.
After a detailed discussion with my client, we explore the potential for case resolution, whether through negotiation, motion filing, or a jury trial.
After thoroughly reviewing the case, I make it a point to sit down with my client and have a detailed discussion. Your input is crucial, and I want to ensure that you fully understand the situation and our strategy moving forward.
I will enter the not-guilty plea or, sometimes, continue the arraignment in El Monte court. Then, I will let my client review all of the paperwork related to the case. We'll then sit down to go over everything and put our strategy together.
If we continue the arraignment, the next appearance will either be the second arraignment or a pre-trial on a misdemeanor DUI case. At that point, the prosecutors will be prepared to discuss negotiating the case.
Plea Bargain vs. Trial
We can decide whether this case needs to be negotiated with a plea bargain or whether it needs to go to trial. We'll get the parameters of what the prosecutors are offering. Of course, we can submit our offer.
We can submit a counteroffer after the prosecutors make an offer, and then we will ultimately decide whether this case will be resolved or whether the defendant will go to trial.
Typically, a case in El Monte and most of the courts in Los Angeles County will offer a first-offender a three-month alcohol program, a $390 plus penalty assessment, and a 200% penalty assessment in all criminal courts in Los Angeles.
They'll request that the person be given three years of probation, and other terms and conditions can apply, like jail time, community service, Cal Trans, and more extended alcohol programs. There's a six-month, nine-month, eighteen-month, and thirty-month DUI alcohol program.
All of this is negotiable, and obviously, you're going to want to look at the critical factors in a DUI case that make the difference, such as how high your blood alcohol level was, how your driving was, how dangerous you were out on the road and what types of things your attorney can bring to bear to point out issues in the case that relate to your lawsuit.
You're not going to point out all of the same issues in every DUI case. It's going to have to make sense related to your particular client, the blood alcohol level, the circumstances of their arrest, and the surrounding circumstances of the case.
So, if you've got a DUI in the El Monte court, pick up the phone. Let's sit down and talk and see what I can do to help you.