Here is an interesting Driving While Intoxicated case… While there is no question that Driving While Intoxicated in Suffolk and Nassau counties is a significant safety issue which law enforcement needs to deal with, what I have seen at times is an over-aggressiveness and lack of judgment leading to unnecessary arrests. A perfect example of
You’ve just been arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and you want to know why you were given two pieces of paper that both charge you with DWI. The answer is that when you submit to a chemical test and you blow over the legal limit (0.08) you are then charged under a subdivision
Should a person arrested for driving while intoxicated take the breath, blood or urine test? What are the consequences of a refusal to submit to a chemical analysis? Suffolk County criminal defense attorney Eric Naiburg addresses these complex questions, as well as the many pitfalls that an arrested person might fall into without proper legal
We take DWI defense very seriously at the Law Firm of Naiburg, Obedin and Weissman and if you’ve been arrested for driving while intoxicated you need to take it very seriously as well. DWI has become what I would say is the crime d’ jour. This is what we see when we look at the
Very often we are presented with a case involving a client who has been arrested for Driving While Intoxicated after having been involved in an accident. Generally speaking, the District Attorney’s Office in Suffolk County is going to take those cases more seriously than they do those cases where the motorist was merely stopped for
Driving While Intoxicated is viewed by the Suffolk and Nassau County District Attorneys as a very serious problem on Long Island. As a result, both offices’ policies regarding the prosecution of this crime are extremely harsh. There are fewer and fewer cases that the District Attorney’s office is willing to plea bargain down to a