After recently getting arrested for driving under the influence in Glendale – and possibly for other charges on top of that – you face a scary and, quite frankly, fraught legal future. But the world is unfair. Sometimes, people can commit truly egregious actions and receive little to no penalties.…
Even if you’ve been arrested for driving under the influence in Burbank, and you’re not a sports fan, you likely are familiar with the Chicago Bears’ legendary old coach Mike Ditka – if not for his football legacy then at least for his appearance in snarky TV ads (or maybe…
January 10th was not a good day for 23-year old Allison Smolinski. If you’ve been arrested for driving under the influence in Burbank or elsewhere in the Southland, chances are (hopefully) your event was less dramatic and devastating than Ms. Smolinski’s. According to news reports, Smolinski piloted her 1997 Nissan…
No doubt, your Burbank DUI arrest was one of the lowest moments of your life. You’ve always worked hard, tried to do the right thing, and taken care of yourself. But you’ve also faced obstacles that a lot of people have never had to deal with. Now you’re facing a…
So many aspects of the Burbank DUI experience can be so frustrating and humiliating. Take the DUI mug shot. Even celebrities can get tripped up by it. Consider Nick Nolte’s famously disheveled DUI portrait, for instance. This notorious example of “disheveled DUI chic” was funny to the world but no…
As regular readers of our Glendale DUI blog know, golf cart DUIs are surprisingly common, both here in the Southland and throughout America. The crime sounds a bit preposterous – like something out of a Caddyshack outtake, perhaps. But we keep seeing examples of it in the news. For instance,…
Driving under the influence in Glendale or anywhere else in California can lead to conviction under California Vehicle Code Sections 23152(a) or 23152(b), which can result in serious jail time, fines, fees, and other radically harsh punishments – even if you didn’t hurt anybody and even if you were just…
Policymakers, police, and lawmakers are in a perpetual desperate scramble to stop Burbank DUIs. This is an admirable quest. Even an A-list Burbank DUI criminal defense attorney, like the Harvard Law School educated Michael Kraut of the Kraut Criminal & DUI Lawyers, would agree that reducing DUI arrests is a…
No one wants to get arrested for DUI in Glendale or anywhere else. But there is a time and a place for pleading your defense. And that time is not when police are waving you and other cars over to pass through a Glendale DUI checkpoint. Consider, for instance, what…
What will be the negative repercussions of your Long Beach DUI arrest? The answer depends. If you get the charges cleared up and quickly rehabilitate your personal and professional life, the consequences could be minimal. Or not. Witness what just happened to 58-year-old Timothy Broas, a white collar defense attorney…