The Pretrial in a Michigan DUI Case – Part 1
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...
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Getting out of a Michigan DUI Charge
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...
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Michigan DUI – Why Location Matters in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne Counties
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...
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Michigan DUI – A Woman’s Experience can be Different
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...
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Key Differences Between A Felony vs Misdemeanor in Michigan – Part 1
As Michigan criminal and DUI lawyers, my team and I deal with both misdemeanor and felony charges every day. Often enough, we’ll be asked by a client to explain the real difference between the 2 kinds of offenses. This happens a lot when the charge my client is facing is one that...
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Win a Michigan License Restoration Case Without AA Meetings
You do not need to be in AA to win a Michigan driver’s license restoration or clearance case. My goal in this article is to make clear that AA is NOT required to win a license appeal because we are regularly contacted by people who are clearly under this misconception. They’ll express...
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Michigan DUI and a Medical, Nursing or Professional License through LARA
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...
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Michigan DUI and Driver’s License Revocations – This is Going to Hurt
One of the most common questions I get as a Michigan DUI lawyer and driver’s license restoration attorney is if there is anything a person can do to get a restricted license after it gets revoked for a 2nd or 3rd (or subsequent) drunk driving conviction. Under Michigan law, a person’s license...
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Michigan – Leaving the Scene of a Property Damage Accident (PDA)
One of the most common driving offenses we handle is “Leaving the Scene of a Property Damage Accident,” or, as it’s sometimes written, “Leaving the Scene of a PDA.” This is a natural component of our practice, focusing, as it does, on cases and charges connected to the operation of motor vehicles....
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Getting Through a Michigan DUI Charge
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.
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DUI Charges in Oakland County – OWI Cases are Different Here
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...
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Michigan Driver’s License Restoration – The Evaluator’s Role
In my role as a Michigan driver’s license restoration lawyer, I am just one of three individuals whose parts in the process are absolutely critical. Obviously, the hearing officer deciding a license reinstatement case is at the center of everything, but even he or she must act within the law and follow the...
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