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Los Angeles DUI DMV Hearings
STOP THE AUTOMATIC CALIFORNIA DMV DRIVER LICENSE SUSPENSION!
A DMV hearing in California is an administrative legal proceeding regarding the suspension or revocation of your driving privileges. At a DMV hearing, the circumstances surrounding your arrest are reviewed in an administrative hearing. Whether you took a blood or breath alcohol test or not, the reason the peace officer initially pulled you over and whether you were lawfully arrested are issues in a DMV hearing. However, the purpose of a DMV hearing is not to decide if you are innocent or guilty of a criminal act. Instead the California DMV is trying to see if they can take your driver license for having more alcohol in your system that is legally allowed. You need a DMV lawyer to stop this.
After you are arrested for a DUI in California, the DMV will attempt to suspend your driver’s license. It is vitally important for you to know that you will only have 10 days from your arrest to request a DUI DMV Hearing in order to prevent that suspension from occurring! We can handle that request for you and stop what would have been an automatic DMV driver license suspension! Our experienced California DMV Hearing attorneys at Takakjian & Sitkoff will aggressively represent your interests in a DMV proceeding and help save your driving privileges.
DMV hearings are part of the "Due Process of Law." Under the Constitution, "Due Process" requires proper procedures be followed. And it entitles you to an opportunity for your side of the story to be heard before any action is taken against you by the DMV. Again, this is not connected to your court hearing, and the hearing will not find you guilty or innocent of criminal charges you may be facing. The DMV hearing only deals with your California driving privileges. And if you are from another state, a Los Angeles DMV suspension can affect your home state driver license.
Everyone is entitled to a DMV hearing, during which we challenge the subjective evidence the officer may feel showed that you were supposedly under the influence of alcohol and had too high of a "BAC" blood alcohol concentration. When dealing with DUI arrests, a DMV hearing will look at circumstances such as whether you agreed to take a blood or breath alcohol test, if you were placed under lawful arrest by the peace officer and if the officer had reason to believe you were driving with too high a reading. We are very successful in showing the officer did not follow proper procedures or that the equipment used in your test was not working properly or it was not properly maintained or calibrated. However, in some cases, a DMV hearing will suspend or revoke your driver’s license. But if we prove you are innocent in court, then we will appeal the DMV decision to have your driving privileges restored.
Without a DMV Hearing, you may only drive for 30 days following the date of your DUI arrest. After the 30 days of a suspension, on a first offense, you may eligible to apply for a restricted license to drive to and from work, during the course and scope of employment and to and from an alcohol program. It is highly advisable, however, that you first find a qualified DMV Hearings attorney to represent your interests within the first 10 days of being charged with a DUI. We will get you another temporary license that does not expire automatically, so that you can continue to drive.
Please do not hesitate to contact our Los Angeles DUI defense attorneys. We have nearby offices throughout California and our fees are reasonable. Don't simply plead guilty without seeing what a very experienced DUI law firm can do for you. Our 24-hour telephone number is (888) 579-4844. The call is free and the initial consultation is free.
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