Laws against driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol have increased in stringency over the past twenty-seven years. These laws now have real ‘teeth,' and an unprepared driver could find an unsympathetic court doling out severe punishment.

Drunk driving laws are enforced at the state level rather than the federal level, and therefore laws and penalties can vary by state and even by county.
The Georgia DUI defense attorneys at The Lee Webb Law Office are thoroughly experienced in Georgia DUI laws for every county. They carefully defend your case so that you are assured of the best protection of your rights.

You must understand some of the severe consequences of DUI conviction:

•  Think DUI is a victimless crime? Don't bet on it: you can do serious jail time if convicted. On your first DUI offense in Georgia, you will serve jail time from just 24 hours to as much as twelve months. Your second offense in five years requires 72 hours of jail time as a minimum, but you could face 12 months in jail. Your third conviction in five years guarantees you 15 days in jail, with a 12-month maximum.

•  You could lose your job or miss job opportunities if a clean driving record is required for employment.

•  Your commercial driver's license will be immediately suspended for one year when you are arrested for DUI.

•  Your personal driver's license may be immediately suspended for a year if your blood-alcohol content is above the legal limit for your first offense, three years for your second offense, or five years for your third offense.

•  If this is your fourth offense, the state of Georgia may confiscate your vehicle.

•  Your driver's license may be suspended if you refuse to take field sobriety tests or blood, urine, or Breathalyzer tests.

•  An ‘ignition interlock device' may be attached to your car; this is a breath-testing device that you must activate with no more than .02 BAC level in order to operate the vehicle.

•  Higher auto insurance rates or even loss of auto insurance coverage are very real possibilities. It can be difficult to get insurance again after a DUI conviction.

•  Even in the most lenient of instances, you will be required to go through mandatory alcohol education and possibly treatment and/or assessment. This can take a great deal of your time as well as being an embarrassment.

•  Your ability to travel freely to other states could be retricted.

•  You might be required to meet with a probation officer regularly. Explaining that to your employer is not easy and could impact your job.

•  Performing community service may be part of your sentencing.

When you hire an attorney at The Lee Webb Law Office, you learn all of the possible consequences of your DUI and you have an experienced professional to protect your rights and reduce your chances of experiencing the consequences explained above. Don't take any chances that your life will be ruined by a DUI conviction. Get the best representation at The Lee Webb Law Office

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William Head	Tom Thomas	Gregory Willis
Lawrence Kohn	Peter Zeliff	Allison McCarthy
Jackie Patterson	Carolyn Karettis	Frank Gomez

Defense Team:
William Head, Tom Thomas, Gregory Willis, Lawrence Kohn, Peter M. Zeliff, Allison E. McCarthy, Jackie G. Patterson, Carolyn Karettis and Frank Gomez.

 

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Police Mistakes

Police officers are only human, and they make mistakes. Often their enthusiasm for reducing DUI crimes means they make unfair assumptions about drivers. Their mistakes can equal your legal nightmare. You need an experienced attorney such as ‘The Gladiator,' Lee Webb to make your nightmare go away. You can depend on his years of experience and his knowledge of mistakes that officers commonly make on DUI stops in Georgia: • The officer assumes that weaving or bumping a curb, for instance, is due to intoxication rather than simple driving misjudgment, poor road surface, or something in the roadway. • Assuming that because there is an odor of alcohol that the driver is intoxicated beyond the legal BAC limit. • The officer does not read the Implied Consent to the driver, which explains that you have the right to refuse the tests and what the consequences are for that refusal. • Giving misleading information about standardized field tests and your rights, so that you might make a poor legal decision. • Placing the driver under arrest before reading the Miranda rights. • Stopping a driver in his or her car because the driver came out of a bar before driving. That is not justifiable suspicion that a driver has been drinking or is illegally intoxicated. • Improperly administering the standardized field sobriety tests. Officers are trained in the protocol of each step of these tests, and improperly giving them can cause a driver to be incorrectly accused of illegal intoxication. Conditions must be reasonable for the driver to perform the tests, i.e. even road surface, an actual line to walk, etc. • In Georgia, you are allowed to make a telephone call before you take a blood-alcohol content (BAC) test or other field sobriety tests. Officers often incorrectly deny the driver this basic right. •  Improperly reading the results of a horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) test. This test, which is one of the standardized field sobriety tests, has a possible range of error due to many conditions: •  Wearing contact lenses •  Medications or ingredients that are acceptable to use while driving, including caffeine, nicotine, aspirin, and cold remedies •  An ear infection, cold or flu symptoms that affect the sinuses; motion sickness or other illnesses; vertigo •  Eye disease, abnormalities, or strain such as created by long hours of driving •  Sunstroke •  Neurologic disease. You need an experienced DUI attorney who understands Georgia laws thoroughly, such as are found at The Lee Webb Law Office. You want someone working for you who checks all evidence against you to ensure that you are not charged with a serious crime because of a mistake on the part of the arresting officer.