Services / DWI Defense
Driving While Intoxicated defense and reform are a focus of our practice. Our office provides the highest level of representation for defendants charged with DWI.
We also work to reform unduly harsh and punitive DWI law and procedures. DWI is a serious offense in New Jersey. The Court must impose significant license suspensions, fines, surcharges, Intoxicated Driver Resource Center participation and in certain cases, jail and community service. The Division of Motor Vehicles must also impose a mandatory insurance surcharge from $3,000 to $3,500. Frequently, automobile insurance is also cancelled which can only be repurchased at the highest rates. A permanent record of the DWI conviction is also entered onto the Drivers Abstract maintained by the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles. No "work license" is available during the period of suspension and penalties for operation while suspended for DWI require mandatory jail time and additional license suspension. Penalties differ depending upon whether the offense is a first, second or subsequent offense.
We defend DWI charges everyday in Courts throughout the State of New Jersey. Our philosophy is that you cannot win a DWI case unless you try to win it. For this reason, we try almost all of our cases to a verdict unless a better result can be achieved without trial. We make the State prove its case both in trial and in pre-trial suppression motions. We search for all possible evidence which might make the difference in winning a case. We vigorously cross-examine police officers regarding field sobriety testing and observations claimed to suggest intoxication. We work regularly with top DWI experts in the State of New Jersey, who can attack breath test results and field sobriety test results when these tests have not been correctly administered.