Our clients depend on us for a result that gets their lives back to normal as soon as possible. Because of that, we have always been committed to providing our clients with a complete defense to the finish.
A DUI hit-and-run accident that involves drunken driving generally involves multiple offenses. When alcohol is not involved, the police officer will attempt to contact the driver after the hit-and-run. Politely decline to answer the officer’s questions, although this is sometimes easier said than done.
If you are charged with a DUI on Federal land, such as a military base or national park, then it will be classified as a Federal DUI. A conviction can have long-lasting consequences, including fines, license suspension, and possibly jail time.
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Driving under the influence is a specialized and highly technical area of the law. What used to be considered a glorified speeding ticket, is now one of the most severely punished misdemeanors on the books. A person convicted of a DUI is facing jail, fines, alcohol classes, driver’s license suspensions, points on the driver’s license, and higher insurance costs.
Drug charges are almost always a result of financial need or in support of personal use. In the case of the former, the client that is charged with a federal drug offense is generally a courier that feels forced to cross drugs across the United States border POE (ports of entry) at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, and Calexico to earn a relatively meager amount of money.
Historically, white-collar criminals engage in financial deception such as tax evasion, tax fraud, bribery, forgery, Ponzi schemes, embezzlement, insider trading, and other crimes that utilize government resources for personal gain. They are usually tried in federal court because they are considered federal crimes.
The legal process behind dealing with a domestic violence case can be emotional and challenging. Though SDD’s founder, Daniel Smith says, “If there is one thing that my father, a judge for 20 years, taught me about DV cases, it is that an arrest is not an automatic indication of guilt.”
In California, most convictions can be expunged from your record. An expungement is technically your plea of guilty being withdrawn and the case being dismissed. It is a legal fiction that it never happened.
Federal criminal defense is entirely different from state crimes, and hiring an experienced federal defense lawyer is important if you are charged with any federal crime.
