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Insights on Utah DUI law, defense strategy, and protecting your rights.
Utah DUI Lawyer–What to Look For in an Attorney?
People often ask me what to look for when hiring a lawyer to defend their DUI. Generally speaking, there are six things that a person should see in a lawyer. Look for a specialist, someone who focuses on your type of case, and someone who has experienced and is trained in this area of the law. It has […]
Driving under the influence of Drugs, or was it just a Medical Condition?
Do we really believe in the presumption of innocence? When we drive down the street and see a citizen pulled over by a police car, don’t we say to ourselves "I wonder what he did?" Are we not prone to presume someone guilty before innocent? In many of my cases, it feels like the case […]
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Metabolite Utah DUI–“But I’m not impaired!”
In Utah, a citizen can be charged with DUI without being impaired and without being over a .08 blood/breath alcohol level. It’s called driving with any measurable amount of a controlled substance in the body. In fact, the controlled substance does not even have to be found in your body, it can be a metabolite of the […]
DUI Utah–Pleading to an Alcohol Related Reckless Driving
I was stopped by an attorney the other day that told me the Department of Public Safety (DMV) took action on his client’s driver’s license when he plead guilty to an Alcohol Related Reckless (ARR) Driving charge. This perplexed me because I watched the laws closely this last legislative session and did not see any law […]
Utah DUI–Appealing the Driver’s License Suspension
After the informal administrative driver’s license hearing is held and the DMV mails out notice that the citizen’s driver’s license will be suspended, there are a couple of procedures that need to be followed in appealing the DMV’s decision. The following is an outline of the process and procedures that I follow to file an appeal. I […]
Utah DUI Hidden Penalties that your Attorney May Not Tell You About
When a person is convicted of a DUI, generally, a Court will sentence a person. The Court will address punishments, conditions of probation, and treatments. For example, for a first time offense, a person normally and generally receives as sentence a fine of $1332, a Prime for Life alcohol treatment program, 48 hours community service […]
Field Sobriety Tests–Walk and Turn Test
Lawrence Taylor out in California wrote an article about how Field Sobriety Tests are designed to make you fail. I could not agree more. For example, the other day I was doing a trial down in Salt Lake City on a DUI. During the break, before I was going to begin to cross examine the […]
Glen Neeley Salt Lake DUI Trial Lawyer
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Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN)–What does it look like?
Many people come into my office and tell me about their field sobriety tests. Often they say, "I know I passed the eye test, I did everything I was supposed to do on that test." A person may have followed all of the instructions, but that is not the main purpose of the test. The […]
Utah DUI Driver’s License Hearings by Telephone
Jamie Spencer from Austin Texas wrote about ALR hearings and discussed the issue of whether your attorney should do the hearing live in person or by telephone. For a Utah DUI driver’s license suspension hearing, we have the option of showing up in person or by telephone. However, the Utah Driver’s License Division has recently negated in […]
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