Connecticut DUI Attorney Provides Helpful Advice About Drunk Driving Defense

Attorney Steven A. Tomeo, a Connecticut DWI lawyer at http://www.ctduiattorney.com with a statewide DUI defense practice, claims that a National Hysteria grips this nation concerning drunk driving. Drivers are arrested on the basis of flawed testing and in many cases individuals who have had no alcoholic beverages find themselves arrested and facing time in jail. In addition to jail, those arrested usually suffer the loss of their Connecticut driver's license.

In a recent appellate court case in which a driver was fast asleep off the side of the road with his engine off, the Connecticut Appellate Court, at lawyer Tomeo's urging, reversed the driver's license suspension ruling. It reasoned that the driver was going nowhere with the engine off and was not operating the vehicle.

The average citizen is not safe for being stopped for suspicion of DUI. A broken light could trigger a stop and likewise with weaving within a lane. Often times the officer doesn't believe the driver's story and asks the driver to get out of the car to take a set of tests that virtually no one passes called the Standard Field Sobriety Tests (SFST). The driver fails the tests. The driver is arrested and then faces the possibility of jail and the loss of their license. And even if the driver passes the SFSTs he still could be arrested.

Attorney Tomeo advises that the taking of prescriptive medications can result in a prosecution for a DUI (driving under the influence) or DWI (driving while intoxicated). The driver may be enraged at the treatment by the officer and refuse to take a breath test on a machine that is noted for its problems or the driver could refuse to take a urine or blood test at the request of the police. The refusal triggers a license suspension for at least six months.

Connecticut law allows all of this. The driver may be unaware of all of this but it is the law. And, for truck drivers with a commercial driver's license, a stock broker with a securities license, a postal worker, state worker or a union worker, they may be in further "hot water" because of State and Federal licensing regulations and your collective bargaining agreement. This is why people charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs need an experienced Connecticut DWI attorney.

Citizens waste a lot of money jailing people who have an alcohol or addiction problem when treatment, follow up treatment and education would better serve our State. However, when lawyers raise the issue in court to try and suspend prosecution so the client can be treated and monitored after treatment, most prosecutors object to even the treatment evaluation. There are exceptions but for the most part the prosecutors argue that if the treatment with suspension of prosecution program were granted everyone would apply for it. People need a good DUI/DWI defense attorney.

Attorney Tomeo is accessible at http://www.ctduiattorney.com to his clients and to those interested in his services. Such accessibility forms the backbone of his practice and he is accessible at any time. He works on a flat fee basis and your initial office consultation is free.