DWI Dismissed Against Lawyer
September 16, 2017
No one is immune to DWI charges - and that includes police officers, firefighters, doctors and even fellow attorneys in our community. And over the years our DWI lawyers have had plenty of these cases involving high profile clientele and public servants. Our law firm recently defended a successful local lawyer who had been pulled over and charged with driving while intoxicated after blowing through a stop sign and tailgating the car in front of him. Our client appeared to make matters worse ... Read More»
DWI Breath Reading Suppressed at Trial
January 19, 2017
Our office recently defended a client for a DWI charge in Union County after he was pulled over for swerving on the road and later blew a 0.14% into the breathalyzer (Alcotest machine). Based on this breath alcohol reading (BAC) our client was facing a 7 - 12 month mandatory loss of his driver's license. Our client admittedly had a bad night and was not professing his innocence but was looking to minimize his consequences if at all possible. So we took a hard look at the evidence and it ... Read More»
5 DWI’s Dismissed in 4 Weeks
March 20, 2015
At Proetta & Oliver, our DUI defense attorneys pride themselves in beating driving while intoxicated charges in New Jersey. DWI defense is a niche area of law that requires a great deal of skill and experience pertaining to standardized field sobriety testing (SFST's) and the Alcotest (New Jersey's Breathalyzer). New Jersey has the reputation as being one of the toughest DUI state's in the entire country. This is because New Jersey does not allow any form of plea bargaining for defendants ... Read More»
DUI Dismissed at Trial
March 16, 2015
Our office recently represented a client who had been charged with a DWI after crashing his car on the New Jersey Turnpike. State Troopers soon arrived and arrested him under suspicion of drunk driving and took him back to the station where he blew a 0.13% BAC. As a first time offender, he faced a mandatory driver’s license suspension of 7 – 12 months. To make matters worse, our client was a commercial driver who owned his own business and had a CDL. If convicted of the DWI, in addition to ... Read More»