The ARD Program: Have you Been Denied? Most first-time DUI offenders apply for the ARD program and some, if not many of them, are denied admission by the District Attorney’s Office. Why? There are many reasons for this. The most common is the existence of a criminal record by the applicant. Reasons you may be […]
ARD: Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition “ARD” is an acronym for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition and it is a diversionary program for mostly those that have been charged with DUI but also may be used for those charged with other crimes as well. Here’s how it works: After the defendant’s preliminary hearing the defendant will fill out an application […]
Can you get a waiver of preliminary hearing for ARD? The first time a defendant gets to test the evidence that the Commonwealth has against them in a criminal case in Pennsylvania is at what is called a “preliminary hearing”. At this hearing, the Commonwealth must prove that the chances are more “probable that not” […]
…….and the answer is: Almost always “yes”. Whether you have to or not has nothing to do with what crime you have been accused of, whether you have a criminal record, or whether you have a lawyer (a good one or not). The requirement that a defendant waive his right to a preliminary […]
Next Steps Following a DUI Arrest in Lower Merion Lower Merion Township, in coordination with the Pennsylvania State Police, ran a DUI Sobriety Checkpoints on Friday, June 20, 2012, on Belmont Avenue in Montgomery County just off of the I-76 ramp. This is a favorite location for the police to set up checkpoints and arrests […]
When an individual has been arrested for DUI in Montgomery County and they have no prior criminal record they are presumably eligible for the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, known as ARD. The acceptance into the program, and the successful completion of it, results in a dismissal of the DUI charge and entitles the client to […]
Police arrested two people, Brandon Braxton,19, of Philadelphia, and Ashley Jones, 23, of Drexel Hill, on May 30, 2012, and charged them with Retail Theft for trying to walk out of the Lord & Taylor in Bala Cynwyd with about $1,559.00 worth of merchandise. According to police, the two were running a scam where Jones […]
While the Octagon can’t contain MMA champ Jon “Bones” Jones, apparently the New York State Police can. On Monday, May 29, 2012, Jones plead guilty to the charge of DWI in Binghamton, NY and a sentencing hearing has been scheduled for June 19. A reported plea deal has Jones paying a fine and receiving a […]
The Final Step to Complete the ARD Program As a Pennsylvania DUI Lawyer and PA Driver’s License Suspension Attorney, I have the opportunity to represent individuals that have received DUI charges and are then subsequently admitted into Pennsylvania’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, or ARD. This is a program where individuals with no prior criminal record […]
Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, more commonly known by its acronym “ARD”, is a diversionary program that allows an individual to serve a non reporting term of probation, without a plea of guilty, and receive a dismissal and expungement of the criminal charges upon successful completion of their probationary term. We all know the program is great […]