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After you’ve been arrested for DUI, you will be booked and officially charged. You’ll have a few days before you are required to enter your plea. If you plead guilty, you’ll be sentenced right away. You will lose your license for at least six months. You will also have to...

If you have ever been pulled over for DUI, you probably convinced yourself that you could get away with it. You have been driving long enough to know what to say to the cops if they suspect you of drunk driving. After all, you’ve been over 21 for years and...

Initially, when the drunk driving laws were passed many years ago, the objective was to detect when people were driving after drinking. As any criminal defense attorney in Asheville can tell you, the original intent of the laws was not to check drivers to see if they were under the...

An Asheville DUI attorney could mean the difference between a conviction and staying a free person. If you have ever been arrested for DUI before, you know how scary it can be. A lot of people don’t realize how serious these charges really are. They figure they’ll make do for...

If you’re reading this, then you, or someone you knew, was recently arrested and charged with DUI in North Carolina. This isn’t something anybody does on purpose. Most people who are arrested for drunk driving are good people who made a terrible mistake. Some of our clients were arrested for...

For some reason, people who are arrested and charged with DUI swear that they can get the case dropped on a technicality. They may have spoken with a friend or family member who told them that if they pay an Asheville DUI attorney enough money, their attorney will be able...

When we typically meet with a client for the first time, they seem intent on convincing us that they weren’t drunk at the time of their arrest. Some people insist they only had two drinks before they got behind the wheel. Others tell us that the breathalyzer test was broken...

By the time our Asheville DUI lawyers meet with a client, they’ve already been arrested for DUI. We have no control over how they behave during their traffic stop. Sometimes, the arresting officer tells us what a nightmare our client was from the moment they pulled them over until the...

If you have ever driven through a DUI checkpoint in North Carolina, you know how scary they can be. Even if you haven’t done anything wrong, when you see those blue lights flashing, you suddenly feel nervous. You wonder if you forgot to renew your registration or driver’s license. You...

Most people understand that, if they’re convicted of DUI in North Carolina, they’ll be facing serious penalties. Even if it’s your first DUI conviction offense, you’ll be looking at fines and possible jail time. Your driver’s license will also be suspended for at least 6 months. In addition to this,...

When you’re pulled over for suspicion of DUI in North Carolina, the police officers have several tools at their disposal to determine if you are intoxicated. One of the most important tools they utilize is the breathalyzer test. This test measures the blood alcohol concentration in your body at the...

It seems like the age-old story in North Carolina. A young person goes out drinking with their buddies and decides to sleep it off in their car on the side of the road. They’re awoken in the middle of the night by a police officer knocking on their window. The...