For 16 years, I have been successfully defending people charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol and/or drugs throughout all of the Counties in California's greater Bay Area, including but not limited to, the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Richmond, and San Jose. With a DUI charge, you have a lot at stake, and I fight hard to protect you; And by the way, unlike some other firms who have a lot of different people handle your case, I am the attorney who will be handling your case. First, your driving privilege will be taken from you. They took your license when the police arrested you, and you received a pink piece of paper as a temporary license; try getting on a plane or cashing a check with that paper license. Next, you were given a court date to appear at, and no one told you what the consequences of a DUI conviction can mean to you if you show up by yourself and plead guilty. Did you know that the criminal conviction will stay on your "Criminal Record" for life? It will. The charge is priorable for ten (10) years to the next level of punishment if you get another DUI within ten (10) years, but whether you do or do not, the conviction remains on your criminal record for life.
If this is your first arrest, you are probably scared about going to jail, and in some cases about your job, and what is going to happen to you. That is a normal fear, and that is where I can help you because I appear in all of the courts in all of the Bay Area Counties dealing regularly with the Judges and Deputy District Attorneys assigned in each of these courts. There is a human factor in every case. Each Judge has a different perspective on a DUI case as do each of the Deputy District Attorneys; knowing them gives me an advantage in helping you with your case. Of course, there is more. The facts of your case make a difference in resolving your case. For example, the field sobriety tests you did in the street. I know a lot about these FST exercises because as a solo reserve police officer, I use to give them to suspected drunk drivers. That is why I know which tests the police officer did incorrectly in your case, and that is something we need to pass on to the Deputy District Attorney and let them know this is a weak spot in their case to help you in your case. Additionally, I have more knowledge about the field sobriety tests that you took because I am a “Qualified Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor”. I have special training from the Federal Government, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and that gives you an advantage in your case if we go to trial.
After you were arrested, you took the required "Chemical Test" either a breath or blood test. What does this mean for you? It depends on a lot of factors. Some of those factors are, the time you started drinking, stopped drinking, how much you had to drink, what you had to drink, and whether or not you ate. To help you with this, I work with a toxicologist, and have taken special training at the University of Indiana from the World’s leading toxicologist in both breath and blood; Dr. Kurt M. Dubowski, P.hD., (Breath) and Dr. Alan Wayne Jones, P.hD (Blood), and I graduated with a grade in the 90s which is an "A". For this portion of your case, we get your personal records on the machines used for either the breath machine and/or the blood testing equipment (Gas Chromatograph), and the records on the analyst the Government used in your testing. The Government deals with so many people, so often, and the police officers do this so often they get lazy and sloppy in the procedures, and because of my years of training and personal experience in the field and courts as a trial lawyer, I will know what to search for and subpoena to try and help you in your case.
I know you are nervous and probably scared. This I can tell you: I have never had a client go to jail on a first time DUI charge, and in addition to that, in the hundreds of DUI case I have handled through the years, I have had many of my client’s cases dismissed, reduced in charges, and saved a lot of driver’s licenses from being suspended from the DMV by having those charges SET ASIDE, and that has saved jobs and let many of my clients sleep a lot easier. Call me now for a FREE Consultation at:
(510) 346-6666 or Toll Free 1(800) 690-4DUI) When you call I will contact the DMV for you at NO CHARGE to make sure that you do not go pass the ten (10) day time limit you have to request the hearing.
Here are just 5 of many reasons why you should hire Donald Gray Drewry as your San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose or Bay Area DUI Lawyer:
1. 16 Years of successfully specializing in DUI defense for his clients
2. Is not afraid to take a DUI case to trial for his clients
3. Is trained in the Toxicology of Alcohol
4. Is Trained in the use, maintenance and calibration of the machines used in the street by police and knows the flaws
5. Is a qualified Instructor of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests by the Federal Government NHTSA, the tests that police officers use, generally incorrectly, in the field with the people that they arrest