CHARGES: 
(1) FIRST OFFENSE DUI (BAC UNKNOWN)
(2) REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO A CHEMICAL TEST

The attorneys at Marin & Barrett are once again thrilled to announce a successful DUI defense.  Our client was pulled over in Washington County for speeding and eluding a police officer.  After smelling alcohol in the vehicle as well as perceiving other “indicia of intoxication” the officer subjected our client to field sobriety tests, after which he was arrested.  Once at the station our client refused to take the chemical test and was charged with DUI and Refusal to Submit to a Chemical Test.

At the pretrial stage of the case, our Defense team was able to discredit enough of the officer's report that the prosecutor did not feel comfortable proceeding with the DUI charge and agreed to drop the charge to that of reckless driving AND dismiss the associated chemical test refusal charge.  This means that our client was never subject to a license revocation, avoided a criminal conviction, and remains eligible to have the charge expunged in one year.

RESULT: FIRST OFFENSE DUI CHARGE REDUCED TO RECKLESS DRIVING AND THE CHEMICAL TEST REFUSAL CHARGE WAS DISMISSED resulting in a one year filing, no loss of license, and no criminal conviction in March 2022