San Dimas DUI Administrative Hearing Attorney
A Law Firm by Your Side in Administrative Hearings
Aggressive Representation in San Dimas, California
After you have been charged with a DUI or DWI, the state of California only gives you 10 calendar days from the date of the arrest to request an administrative hearing. This includes any time that you may have spent in jail.
For example, if you are arrested on a Friday, spend the weekend in jail and are released on a Monday, you now only have seven calendar days left to request a hearing from the DMV.
A DUI administrative hearing is to discuss your driving privileges, such as license suspension or revocation, and the circumstances surrounding the arrest. Although you may not have been found guilty in a criminal action, the DMV will still try to take your drivers’ license from you. At the hearing, the following three issues are discussed:
- Did the officer have reasonable suspicion to believe that you were driving in violation of the DUI law?
- Were you lawfully detained or arrested?
- Were you driving with a blood alcohol level greater than .08 BAC?
The Law Offices of Paul E. Antill can request a DUI administrative hearing for you and represent you at the hearing. We will investigate the circumstances of your arrest, and if there is a reasonable defense, we will aggressively pursue it. By hiring an experienced lawyer for your DUI administrative hearing, you can save yourself time, money and peace of mind.
If you have been arrested for a DUI or DWI, you have only 10 days from the time of the arrest to request a DMV hearing. Even if you have spent the night or weekend in jail, that deadline will not be pushed back.
Contact our firm right away and get the representation that you deserve.
"I am already scheduled to appear in court on a DUI charge. Do I still need to request an administrative hearing?"
Yes, a DUI administrative hearing is different from your court appearance and will discuss different issues. At your hearing, the only issues that may be discussed are your driving privileges and the circumstances of your arrest, not whether or not you are guilty of a DUI. The law entitles you to a notice of the action that the state will take against your driving privileges and a DUI administrative hearing provides the opportunity to be heard.
Implied Consent
If a police officer requests that you complete a chemical test, you must submit to the test or your license will be automatically revoked for one year. This includes a blood, breath or urine test. When you are awarded a driver's license, you are giving your implied consent that if an officer arrests you for a DUI, you will submit to one of those tests.
Your attorney will review the results of your test and, if there is a reason to suspect that the test was inaccurate or based on the results of poorly calibrated equipment, will pursue that defense at your DUI administrative hearing.
Contact Us
Contact the Law Offices of Paul E. Antill in San Dimas, California, and get started with your DUI defense. Call 1.888.LAW.5255 (888.529.5255). We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.
