Category: DUI/OWI (Drunk Driving)

https://youtu.be/r8cjeqQm0ro This article will focus on some of the more important considerations following a 1st offense DUI arrest. In this article, we’ll talk about finding a lawyer, the arraignment, staying out of jail, and what happens to your license. One...

Our firm has a long history with the 52-4 District Court in Troy. Founder Jeffrey Randa opened his first office in the city back in 1993, and...

Almost every DUI case gets worked out and settled at the pretrial stage. Knowing what a pretrial is – and is not – is really key to a basic understanding of how most criminal and DUI cases are resolved. In this 2-part article, I want to shed some light on the role...

In my role as a Michigan DUI lawyer, I have never had a single client who didn’t hope his or her drunk driving charge could just go away. It is, and always should be the goal of every lawyer, in every DUI case, to find a way out of the charge. While...

More than almost anything else, where a DUI case arises is the single most important factor in how things will work out. If we took the identical set of facts regarding an OWI arrest and charge and watched how that case would play out in several different courts, it would become obvious...

As a male Michigan DUI attorney, I am under no illusion that I have any kind of expertise in women’s issues, or that I’m in any way specially qualified in this area. However, I also know that some aspects of DUI cases are just “different” for women versus men, and that it...

If you hold any kind of professional license in the state of Michigan and you get a DUI, you are going to have to report it. This article will be a very short overview of a deep and complex subject. In fact, a person can easily get lost in the details involved...

The greatest thing a DUI defense attorney can do for his or her client is to find a way to “beat” the charge. If the whole DUI case gets thrown out, then there isn’t even the possibility of jail. That, of course, would provide the best possible relief from this stressful situation.

Most of the DUI cases I handle are in Oakland County. Because I am a local, Detroit area DUI lawyer, that’s not surprising. In this article, I want to examine OWI charges in the district courts of Oakland County, and some of the things that are different here when compared to Macomb...

As Michigan DUI lawyers, we deal with drunk driving charges every day. While just about everyone uses the term “DUI” to describe it, technically speaking, the legal term in Michigan for a drinking and driving offense is “Operating While Intoxicated,” or “OWI. In this article I want to focus on...

In the course of every DUI case that goes through the court system, and before ever being sentenced by the Judge, a person must, by law, complete a mandatory written alcohol screening test and meet with a probation officer for an information-gathering interview. The results of that screening test (it is calculated using a numerical scoring...