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 canceled
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 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. 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 tests and observations claimed
to suggest intoxication. We work regularly with the
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.
