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Premier defense attorney Charles Jerome Ware is Columbia and Ellicott City-based, and nationally-recognized and respected for his very successful DUI and DWI defense law practice. Defense attorney Charles Ware is ranked by his many satisfied clients as well as his legal peers as one of the "BEST 10 DUI and DWI ATTORNEYS in MARYLAND" [AIDUIA]. For an initial courtesy consultation, contact him at (410) 720-6129. He can help you when you are arrested or charged with drunk driving anywhere in the State of Maryland.
Drunk Driving is treated very seriously by the judicial and administrative systems in Maryland. At our law offices we also take these cases very seriously. We strongly recommend that you do too.
Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol, or "drunk driving" as it is commonly called, is one of the most frequently committed crimes in the United States. Yet, it is all too commonly committed by non-criminals; that is, by otherwise decent and respectable people who have never been in trouble with the law previously. Consequently, legal representation of these defendants is often attempted by well-meaning attorneys who are simply insufficiently versed in criminal law and drunk driving issues. Typically, the defendant's business or family lawyer will undertake to represent him or her as a " favor." Big mistake. Drunk driving, the clueless lawyer tells him or herself, is merely an exaggerated traffic offense; and not as serious or complex as a "real" crime. Therefore, it cannot require any particular legal expertise. Not true.
Any client charged with drunk driving, and any lawyer representing a client charged with drunk driving, should be aware of the following facts:
(1) Though it is one of the most common of criminal offenses, drunk driving is one of the most complex offenses to understand and defend against properly.
(2)The stakes for the defendant if a drunk driving case are high; and even higher in the long term than for most other crimes.
(3) A uniquely contrived system of legal standards and procedures, devices and methodologies, exist for law enforcement in drunk driving cases that is geared to facilitate a conviction of the defendant.
All of the above factors demand the prudent defendant to invest wisely and secure competent and experienced legal counsel for his or her defense.
With this having been said, it is my experience over the past 35 years of successfully representing DUI and DWI clients that, depending upon the facts of each case, several defenses can exist, including among others:
(1) Necessity;
(2) Entrapment;
(3) Mistake of fact:
(4) Duress;
(5) Involuntary intoxication;
(6) Improper stop by police;
(7) Improper implementation of field sobriety tests;
(8) Improper implementation of breath tests; and many more.
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