Consult an attorney immediately!

Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) and Driving Under the Influence (DUI) are serious charges! You should meet with an experienced DWI attorney as soon as possible after your arrest or citation. Save all the paperwork the police give you when you are arrested, and bring it to your attorney when you first meet them. Your attorney should move immediately to have all video and audio recordings from your DWI saved so that they can be examined for police procedural mistakes.

You have a short time to act

In Missouri and Kansas, the state gets two tries to suspend your license when you get arrested for DWI/DUI. It’s easy to understand that you’ll have a case in court (the criminal case), and you can lose your license if you are convicted. What is not always known is that the Department of Revenue can suspend your driver’s license within 14 days in Kansas (15 days in Missouri) unless you act to appeal the suspension. Your attorney will be aware of this and will know how to go about appealing this suspension.

Provide good information

Tell your attorney as much about your stop and arrest as possible, including what the cops said to you about why they stopped you, what tests they performed on you, where they took you, and what they say you “blew,” or if you refused.

You should hire an attorney who regularly represents clients facing DWI charges. Experienced DWI attorneys like Cameron stay current on all the changes to the law and the most recent DWI defense theories, and know what they are doing.

 

If you hire an attorney who only occasionally represents people on DWI, you could be doing yourself a disservice. Examples of mistakes that “dabblers” make:

• Submitting the administrative case for decision without making even the most simple objections, and losing your case, and your license, for you.
• Pleading a DWI client guilty in court when the breath alcohol content (BAC) in the reports was UNDER 0.08% (the Kansas and Missouri legal limit).
• Telling a potential DWI client that they WILL lose their license. Experienced DWI attorneys know that there is always a chance to win.