Man Pleads Guilty in Montgomery County DUI Crash A Collegeville, Pennsylvania man was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 100 days to five years in county prison after pleading guilty to DUI charge with a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit in January. The driver was arrested and charged with DUI after […]
In 2014 the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas decided to take all the DUIs that occur in the county and set aside one courtroom, one judge, and one set of district attorneys to handle each and every case to their conclusion. This post is for those who have gotten a DUI and who want […]
Are you looking for an expungement for your suspended license? Very often I have a client come into my office with a suspended driver’s license. Armed with their driving record and restoration requirements letter they tell me that, while they have been suspended, they have not gotten any credit for serving their suspension. This […]
At least once a week someone will call my office and run a certain scenario by me. It will involve a DUI stop, an arrest, and the question “is refusing a breathalyzer test a bad thing”? Of course, the answer always depends on a variety of factors, the most important of which would be when the […]
Every so often I’ll be driving home from wherever I’m coming from and I’ll run into a line of cars, a bunch light sticks on the road, some signs, and a gaggle of police officers stopping cars and letting them proceed. Or just stopping them period. This is a DUI checkpoint and it is utilized […]
By now we all know that sobriety checkpoints are a fact of life. If you live a social life, and have been out late at night, chances are you have been stopped by the the police and subjected to some degree of roadside interrogation in an attempt to determine whether you were drinking or not.
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” […]
Sobriety checkpoints are a fact of life in Pennsylvania and they ARE put in the most inconvenient spots – you know – at the time and place where drunk drivers are most likely to be.
In 2001, Pennsylvania passed a law requiring that any repeat DUI offender must have a device placed on their car after their regular term of license suspension is over. An example: a person is convicted of their second DUI offense within 10 years and their blood alcohol level was a .14. This is a “middle tier” […]
As a Montgomery County DUI lawyer, I have always been baffled but the concept of what the Pennsylvania State Police call the “drug recognition expert” or “DRE”. This is the cop that is “specially trained” to detect and ferret out those drivers that are driving the roads drunk or under the influence of drugs. […]