Clovis, CA DUI Law Firms & Lawyers

You should discuss to with your lawyer, when a misdemeanor has not been filed within a year of the arrest/event it usually cannot be prosecuted. You should confirm this with your lawyer.

Any sworn officer, of any agency, can stop and arrest anyone, in any jurisdiction; that is their job. Professional courtesy and agency policy keeps them from doing it regularly out of their jurisdiction, along with the problems of having to return to the out of area court to participate in the criminal proceedings. Think about it; if an officer saw a murderer fleeing, would he hesitate to stop him out of his jurisdiction? No. You committed a lesser crime is all. As to the DUI you indicate getting: Upon release from jail or booking, you’ll be given documents that include a notice from DMV that you have only ten days to file a request with the DMV for a hearing on an appeal of the automatic one-year suspension of your license. Contact the DMV and do so, timely. You can hire an attorney for that hearing if you want. You also were provided a notice of court appearance for Arraignment. You may go to that hearing and plead not guilty. If so, you’ll be provided a copy of all the police reports and charging Complaint. There you’ll have to set a date for Pre-Trial hearing where negotiations with the DA are first conducted. If the case is not plea bargained, it will be set for Trial. Prior to that, you’ll file any appropriate Motions. Unless you know how to effectively represent yourself in all this, hire an attorney who does. The conventional wisdom is that the attorney will be able to get you a better deal than you could on your own, or effectively try the case if forced to that. That is what you are paying for. Your attorney will be able to use whatever legal issues, facts, evidence, witnesses, you may have in your defense. If serious about hiring counsel, and if this case is in Southern California courts, feel free to contact me.