Phoenix DUI Abogados

Finding an attorney one can trust to fight a charge of drunken driving can be more than somewhat of a concern, especially since most motorists are not predisposed to retaining a DWI-DUI defense lawyer “just in case.” This isn’t to say that any choice should be made in haste when, one day, a person finds themselves holding a summons for driving while intoxicated. While time is of the essence once a DWI charge has been levied, the choice of attorney can have a major impact on the course and possible results of one’s drunk driving case.

As experienced New Jersey DWI and drug DUI defense lawyers, we know that there are a wide variety of legal advocates available these days to assist motorists with any number of traffic violations, from speeding and other lesser infractions to driving under the influence of alcohol or prescription drugs and breath test refusal charges (not to mention instances where individuals have been accused of impairment due to marijuana use, or possession of weed in a motor vehicle). Any one of these may require an experienced professional, but a drunken driving charge, with all of its potentially serious implications, is not something on which one should gamble his or her future.

As skilled trial lawyers, I and my colleagues are well aware that it is next to impossible for most individuals who have been accused of DWI to become experts in the field of drunk driving law virtually overnight. However, it is still important that anyone charged with a violation as significant as a DUI to study up on who they will choose to represent them in a court of law. We know there are a lot of choices out there, but we also know our track record when it comes to representing drivers accused of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The Atlantic’s Cities blog posed the question this week, “Are some cities built to encourage drunk driving?” Then Unfair Park and the TM Daily Post followed up, noting that Dallas and Houston show up as among the cities with the most fatal crashes and the largest proportion of fatal accidents involving DWI. Other Texas towns weren’t far behind in that latter category: “Houston ranked second, Dallas fifth, and Austin seventh, with Fort Worth close behind at number 13 in the study recently put out by software company IDV Solutions on their UXBlog.” See the full infographic ranking large US cities here.

Though it doesn’t explain all the data, IMO a big factor is the availability of public transportation, as Grits has argued in the past. The Atlantic nailed it: Some cities are built to encourage drunk driving, particularly here in Texas. As Eric Nicholson wrote at the Dallas Observer’s Unfair Park

This should make intuitive sense to anyone who doesn’t live in Uptown, Deep Ellum or Lower Greenville and has ever gone out for a few drinks. Assuming no one volunteered to be designated driver, you’re basically left with two choices: pay an ungodly amount for a cab or drive drunk and hope for the best. In places like New York, where things are denser and more accessible by foot or by public transportation, there are more viable options.

Bingo! As Nicholson pointed out, “That’s not to say that people in Dallas have an excuse to drive drunk, just that the data make sense.” However, Grits would add that the data show urban planning and other public policy decisions play a big role in DWI death rates that the enforcement-only crowd generally fails to acknowledge. Grits doesn’t believe there are fewer drunks in New York, Washington D.C., or Philadelphia than in Dallas, Houston, or Austin; I just think those cities’ governments had the foresight to give people a way to get home without climbing behind the wheel of a car.

I have been handling driving under the influence of ambien cases for awhile. The warnings were out there but it was sometimes hard to convince a Assistant District Attorney much less a jury of the effects of ambien. Most people can’t grasp that someone can sleep drive unless it has happened to them.Now there is hard proof of the effects of ambien.

The Food and Drug Administration announced new recommendations of the use of ambien based upon laboratory studies. Now , women should take less of the drug because they take longer to metabolize the drug. The FDA has reports of at least 700 driving mishaps with people on ambien or zolpidem.It does not count those that were charged with driving under the influence (DUI).

You now have defenses to driving under the influence of ambien.Make sure to check with your doctor if you are taking the correct dosage per the FDA report.