Polk County DUI Defense Attorney

The Importance of DMV Hearings

After you are arrested, you are given only 10 days in which to schedule a hearing regarding the suspension of your license. The elements that may result in license suspension include whether or not you took a blood, urine or breath test and if the tests showed that your blood alcohol level was above .08%. If you blood alcohol level was above .08%, then your suspension will be for 6 months. This time period will be extended to 1 year or 18 months if you refused to take a blood or breath test.

I am William D. Sites, Attorney at Law and in my firm the defense of your DUI case starts quickly, with the timely scheduling and preparation for your Department of Motor Vehicles formal review or suspended license hearing. My goal with these hearings is not only to prevent, where possible, the suspension of your driving privileges, but to utilize these hearings to set the groundwork to defeat the criminal charges in your DUI case.

By using a dedicated Lakeland criminal defense lawyer to appear on your behalf at your hearing, the evidence the police will use in your case can be viewed and, in many cases, effectively challenged. If this evidence was improperly collected, is flawed , or can be shown to be unreliable, it may result in the DMV having insufficient grounds to suspend your license.

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Getting to work, dropping children off to school, going to see the doctor and a large variety of activities that you have come to think of as "normal" can all be adversely affected by a negative DMV hearing. If I cannot prevent the suspension of your license, I work to get your privileges restored as quickly as possible.

Attending your hearing will allow me to view the evidence a prosecutor will bring forth in your criminal proceedings . As a seasoned trial attorney with 22 years of practice, seeing the evidence beforehand allows me to develop ways to attack what the prosecution is relying on to prove their case.

We must move fast, however, as failure to schedule your DMV hearing on time will result in your license being suspended automatically within 10 days of your arrest.

To learn how suspension of your driver's license may be prevented, quickly contact a Lakeland DUI defense attorney from my firm.