As a Glendale DUI offender — who caused an accident or suffered an illness or accident after the fact — you face a catch 22. You know that you need to build a sound defense. But you also have almost no energy to get the process started. That you’re even…
Why do so many Los Angeles DUI defendants trust Attorney Michael Kraut of Kraut Criminal & DUI Lawyers? One reason is that Mr. Kraut spent 14 years “on the other side” as a widely respected, highly accomplished criminal prosecutor. Here are three reasons why working with an ex-prosecutor makes tons…
Your Burbank DUI arrest might have been pretty “garden variety.” Maybe you blew a 0.13% BAC on a breath test, after spending the night drinking and playing pool at Burbank Town Center. A sheriff saw you swerve on Hollywood Way, while you were driving to an after-party at an acquaintance’s…
In a recent blog post, this Los Angeles DUI defense blog summarized some of the dramatic anti-DUI recommendations proposed on May 14th by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The Board, together with groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), wants states like California to institute a rash of enforcement…
At what point should you plead guilty to your Pasadena DUI charges? How do you know whether to fight all the way to trial or whether to cut your losses and accept a reduced set of punishments? Believe it or not, the answers to these questions are not clear cut.…
On some level, you recognize that your Burbank DUI arrest could have lingering effects for months or even years. You can’t help but wonder: “what if?” • What if you had taken a different route home and avoided the checkpoint on Olive? • What if you’d had one fewer drink,…
To prevent a Beverly Hills DUI arrest, you should rely on designated drivers. Right? That’s the conventional wisdom. But a new study out of the University of Florida in Gainesville is putting that conventional wisdom to the test. According to a June 10th article at LiveScience.com, “roughly 40% of designated…
As you’re searching for a Beverly Hills DUI defense attorney, you’re probably under the impression that most lawyers who focus on criminal defense understand the law well enough to avoid trouble themselves. Truth be told, most attorneys do behave quite well. But not all. Consider the bizarre case of Dan…
Now for another Glendale DUI “true or false” quiz. Here’s how it works. You read the synopsis of six stories that may or may not have happened. Try to guess which three stories are made up and which actually occurred in real life. Here we go: 1. Only in China:…
Some breaking Hollywood DUI news. Jacqueline Walters Danforth, the 44-year-old daughter of recently retired news anchor Barbara Walters, was recently arrested for DUI in Naples, Florida. According to reports from the New York Daily News and TMZ, Jacqueline and her boyfriend had been driving a Honda Pilot on the highway,…