Advising Repeat Offenders on New York DWI Charges
If you've been arrested for drunk driving with a prior conviction for DWI on your record, you might be facing felony charges, a heavy fine, mandatory jail time and loss of your license for a full year or longer. To find out about the details of your case that might support an effective defense and lead to a better outcome, contact an experienced defense lawyer at Michalski Militello LLP in Rochester or Avon.
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Our job as defense counsel is to find the weaknesses in the prosecution's case against you. In a repeat DWI case, however, state law and local charging policies restrict your options for compromising the charge or pleading guilty to a less serious offense.
As a result, our attorneys concentrate on the strategies that will achieve the greatest positive results based on the facts of your case. For example, depending on the specific facts of your case, we might be able to show that police mistakes in the traffic stop or arrest make the case unsuitable for prosecution. We might also be able to show that the record of your previous DWI or out-of-state DUI conviction won't support a current charge of repeat DWI because of changes or differences in the drunk driving laws that applied then and now.
The look-back period for a prior drunk driving conviction on a repeat DWI charge is ten years. The older your previous conviction is, the more options we'll be able to pursue on your current drunk driving charge. If your blood alcohol reading after a recent arrest was not much over .08 percent, we might even be able to plead your current case down to a DWAI violation.
Because the consequences of a repeat DWI conviction are so great under New York law, you owe it to yourself to work with defense attorneys who will explore every alternative that might protect you from the worst consequences of a conviction.
For more information about your defense options after a repeat DWI arrest in Upstate New York, contact Michalski Militello at either of our two locations.
