Archive for November 2021

The biggest mistake is they don’t do anything. They don’t hire an attorney to consult with them and request a discovery file. And quite often they let it run right up until about a week before the trial date, and scramble to get an attorney because they’re going to lose their license. If you hire…

Everything’s Important Everything you can remember is important. I cannot stress how important it is to be completely honest, tell the good, the bad and the ugly. We need to know the facts on the front end. If we know there’s a bad fact out there, that we can take steps to address that and…

It Depends It depends on what kind of license you have in Mississippi. If you have just a regular driver’s license, you lose your license for 90 days through an administrative suspension. Then they send a letter to the address on your driver’s license, and you have 10 days from the date of that letter…

The officer either pulls you over for what’s usually a minor traffic infraction. As the officer approaches the vehicle, you will roll down the window and he’ll ask for your license, your registration and proof of insurance, and you provide those documents. The officer will almost always say they smell the odor of intoxicating beverage…

DUI First Assuming someone has a regular driver’s license, the penalty for a DUI first offense in Mississippi carries 48 hours in jail and a fine of $250 up to $1,000. And it also results in a suspension of your driver’s license for 120 days. The statutes are very clear that you cannot reduce the…

The very first thing I’m going to do is request your discovery. We are entitled to certain evidence and that includes video and audio recordings and reports, whether written by a police officer, the lab, or a witness statement. You are 100% entitled to that. And we’re going to review everything before we step foot…

The most common thing is, refuse the breathalyzer. There’s no record of any blood alcohol content. Here we say, heck no, don’t blow up. The absolute worst thing you can do is blow a 0.08., because at that point, once you blow 0.08 or greater, then we have to go and do a couple of…

Probably the biggest misconception is that you can’t plead a DUI down to some sort of lesser offense. A lot of states offer it to where you can play it down to some kind of traffic violation or something of the sort. In Mississippi, that’s not an option. There is the option for non-adjudication, but…

Closest Precinct In the first 24 hours, you are going to be taken to the local arresting agency and booked in there. Most likely you’ll be taken directly to a detention facility where they will do the booking. In the event, you were taken to a local agencies station, you will then be transferred to…

DUI in Mississippi is defined in a couple of different ways. You have what is known as a common law DUI, which means the officer thinks that you are impaired and operating a motor vehicle on the highways of the state of Mississippi. And that is where a lot of your field sobriety tests and…