If there is evidence out there to challenge your DUI or DWAI charge, I will find it. Police officers make mistakes that can lead to evidence being suppressed and your charges being dropped. I am criminal defense attorney David H. Johnson, and I have been challenging DUI charges in the Fort Collins area in order to protect my clients' rights for more than 25 years.
Your choice of a criminal defense lawyer is critical. You can contact my Colorado law firm for effective driving under the influence and driving while ability impaired defense in Fort Collins.
Longmont Suppressing a DUI Attorney
To justify an arrest, an officer has to have probable cause to believe you committed a crime. For drinking and driving charges, an officer has to have reasonable belief that your ability to safely operate your vehicle was impaired to some degree by alcohol or drugs. I investigate the important questions in your case, such as:
- Why did the officer stop you?
- Was there a valid basis for police contact?
- If there was a driving violation, what facts support it?
- Did the officer have sufficient evidence to believe you were intoxicated?
- How did you perform on the portable breath test and other sobriety tests?
Once an officer makes contact with an individual, he or she is making notes that lead him or her to believe you are intoxicated. At the law offices of Liggett, Smith & Johnson, P.C., I am reviewing the facts to verify that the officer followed the requirements that the courts have established.
Analyzing Blood and Breath Test Results in the Fort Collins Area
My job as a defense attorney is to hold police officers to task. Once an individual is arrested and gives a blood or breath test, the police are required to follow specific evidence requirements in terms of chain of custody as well as regulatory requirements in administering the Intoxilyzer and the blood tests.
I review all documents to verify your arresting officer complied with those rules and regulations. If the police misstate your performance on any sobriety tests, I will work with you to uncover it and file to have the evidence suppressed at a suppression hearing. By getting evidence suppressed, it greatly hampers the district attorney from going forward on your case. Often it results in a dismissal of the charges.
For more information or to discuss your needs for challenging a DUI, contact me today at my Colorado law office. Call 970-279-1968 now to schedule your FREE CONSULTATION with a Fort Collins drunk driving attorney.
