Mr. Sullivan represented a client who was stopped by a Chamblee DUI officer for speeding. Our client was extremely argumentative towards the officer during the course of the DUI investigation. the Chamblee officer dished it right back to our client. Eventually our client agreed to perform field sobriety evaluations and was arrested for DUI and Speeding. Our client refused to submit to a breath test. Mr. Sullivan was able to negotiate with the DeKalb County State Court prosecution to dismiss the DUI and the speeding charge in exchange for a plea to Reckless Driving. Because of our client’s business relationships, a DUI had to be avoided at all costs, so this outcome assured him of that.
Tagged: Chamblee DUI
Chamblee – DUI Per Se 0.105 – Reduced to Reckless Driving
Our young bartender client had just gotten off work. Naturally, she and her colleagues had an end-of-shift drink. She decided to follow a friend home. As the two were pulling through the parking lot to leave, rather fast, her friend braked when she shouldn’t have, causing a rear-end collision with our client listed as the at-fault driver. We discovered that the other driver had a suspended license, though, and was not prosecuted because the accident technically happened on private property. We were also able to show the Chamblee prosecutor that our client’s performance on field sobriety evaluations was also not as terrible as the report described, despite the .105 breath test. When the State refused to offer any reduction, we took the case up with the arresting Chamblee DUI officer, who later advised the State that there was no objection to a reduction in charges. As a result of getting the officer on board, the Chamblee prosecutor agreed to reduce this over the limit case to reckless driving.
DeKalb County DUI, .154 breath test; Hit and Run: DUI charges dismissed
Our client rear-ended a car while exiting the expressway in Dunwoody, GA. He decided not to stop at the scene, but eventually stopped in Chamblee, Ga. A Chamblee officer responded to the scene, but called in Dunwoody police to come to the scene as the Hit and Run charge occurred in Dunwoody. A DUI investigation was conducted and our client was arrested for DUI by Dunwoody police. He agreed to take the state-administered breath test and blew a .154 – almost twice the legal limit in Georgia. Mr. Sullivan moved the case from Dunwoody Municipal Court to DeKalb County State Court to challenge the DeKalb DUI arrest and the admissibility of the breath test on constitutional and police jurisdiction grounds. Mr. Sullivan was able to convince the DeKalb State Court prosecutor that the state breath test would not be admissible at trial, and without that, the rest of the prosecution’s DUI case was weak. The DeKalb DUI charges were dismissed, and Mr. Sullivan negotiated a plea to the Hit and Run charge (which our client admitted to doing) and minor traffic offenses.