Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here « 18 Tips To Help You Survive a San Diego DUI Arrest.
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- Following are few tips that you can follow if you have caught in DUI case at San Diego.
- You should not start panicking as soon as the police man has stopped you considering you a suspect of DUI. If you are arrested for a DUI in San Diego it does not mean anything that the cop will take your driving license or send you directly to jail for years. You have still got the right to hire a lawyer who can defend you and is able to save your driver’s license and get charges dismissed as well as punishments reduced.
- You must have to take immediate steps to get your car out of impound in case if it was taken away by the cops, otherwise it can costs you anymore money.
- You don’t have to pay the DMV $125 right now. Especially in that case when you have decided to hire a lawyer to defend yourself in court.
- You don’t have to enroll in a DMV program right now. Especially in that case when you have decided to hire a lawyer to defend yourself in court.
- At this time you have to realize that in near future you would be getting Junk Mail from all of those attorney’s who have purchased your name and address from the jail and and don’t think that it is illegal to buy your name and address because here I must tell you that it is legal.
- You should acquire some knowledge and get some details about the legal process and lawyers offering DUI services through thorough research and of course, that is for your own good and to analyze that whether your efforts to take out yourself from the DUI case is in right direction or not. Don’t get hesitated in calling a lawyer and try to take the second opinion from any other lawyer because it will not charge you anything.
- You should never think that to take any lawyers opinion or guidelines about your case it is necessary to hold an in-office meeting. They can give you honest answers to all of your questions over the phone also.
- You should write down whatever you remember about that unlucky day when this incident happens to you. You should write even the smallest details and you will be surprised to see that some of the smallest details make the biggest difference.
- You should think about things through which you can prove your innocence and by which your attorney might be able to defend you in a better way like for example: cell phone records, credit card statements etc.
- You should must hire a lawyer who has done specialization in DUI as it is a special area of law and an ordinary lawyer who has got no experience and expertise related to DUI cases. It is because in DUI the experience and expertise of lawyer are of great importance.
- You should not get impressed with the no of cases in which a lawyer has attained “victories” -because numbers are easily manipulated.
- You must have to always check the Better Business Bureau.
- You should make a research lawyers by name on other sites that are not owned by those lawyers.
- You should find out a difference by Comparing competing websites for their addresses, name and other information.
- Never try to discuss your case with a “case manager,” “case advisor,” “investigator,” “assistant” etc. as these persons are not the lawyer working on your particular case.
- You should keep this in your mind that the basic thing for every case, both prosecution or defense cases is the actual police report and the evidences collected by the cops ad you cannot access them for about 30 days. This means that when you went to any lawyer or law office and ask them that do they know that what the evidence probably shows, they will answer you by saying that they have handled such cases or they have the best reputation for advocating such cases or they may also say that they have done the most of the trials of DUI cases. But the most honest answer that you get would be that they don’t know and how could they know this? Because despite there is a possibility that you have provide them with some basic information about whatever happened that day but still that doesn’t clarify the whole situation, still there might be some hidden truths that you may also don’t know or you might have forgotten so, no one knows that what the evidences and the reports are going to prove. You should always remember that, lawyers are also normal human beings just like we are so they are not able to predict that what happens in future. They can’t even say at an earlier stage that what each and every police report will say unless it is presented in front of them during the trial.
- Whenever you are hiring a lawyer you should keep in mind that you are paying them for their time and advice and the efforts made by them to defend you. So, whatever you have decided to pay them for their services should set reasonable fees acceptable by both you and your attorney.
- You should always check the Better Business Bureau.
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2 commentsto “18 Tips To Help You Survive a San Diego DUI Arrest.”
Thanks for the tips… nice review…