Plea to an amended count of careless driving. The client faced a bogus (arguably) charge of refusal, despite making multiple attempts to submit a sufficient breath test. Leveraging a legal issue relating to this, the North Star team successfully negotiated this fantastic outcome without even having to argue it to the court. Now, a gross misdemeanor offense is reduced to a non-DWI misdemeanor convi
Plea to an amended count of failing to drive with due care. The client had zero prior record and no legal defenses. He didn’t even complete proactive steps in advance of negotiations. The North Star team still aggressively approached the prosecutor, set on getting this needed outcome to help preserve the client’s career. At first the prosecutor did not meet our needs, but we kept pushing, negotiat
Plea to an amended count of Careless Driving. The client blew a .12 and had no legal defenses. Typically, anything above a .10 is too high to get a non-DWI outcome, especially with a prosecutor known to be less forgiving with DWI’s. Nonetheless, the North Star team set out to achieve a much-needed result for the client. Focused humanizing the client – by highlighting her challenging divorce at the
Plea to an amended count of Careless Driving. What makes this outcome so remarkable is that the client blew a .13 and had zero legal defenses. Typically, the cut off for pleading to a non-DWI is .10 on a first-time DWI (and it absolutely has been a hard cut off with this prosecutor). But, undeterred, the North Star team humanized the client, got numerous character letters praising the client, and
Dismissed on the morning of trial. The client was wrongly accused of being in physical control of a vehicle, when he instead was merely a passenger with his buddy as they were using the vehicle to stay warm and find a sober ride home. Armed with a strong defense for trial, the client refused all offers, even when they kept improving on the doorstep of trial. Ready for his day in court and for a ju
Creative public nuisance resolution. This means the client received a stay of adjudication on a DWI and then was convicted of a public nuisance. The end result is only a conviction of public nuisance, while the DWI plea will be vacated and the charged dismissed after he completes probation. This is truly a remarkable outcome for a client facing a first-time DWI with a .14 alcohol reading. But, he
License revocation rescinded. The client pled guilty to an amended count of Careless Driving on a 3rd Degree DWI and preserved her right to fight the license revocation. And thanks to a strong argument and well argued written brief, the Court agreed that the administration of the breath test was done improperly, thereby jeopardizing the reliability of the test results. The license revocation was r
Plea to an amended count of Careless Driving. Client blew .12 and had no legal defenses to fight the case. Typically, the cut-off to plea to a non-DWI is .10. If you blow above it, good luck trying to get a non-DWI conviction via negotiations. And that was how the prosecutor initially reacted. But, the client could NOT have a DWI conviction on her record for fear of losing her career and even lice
Plea to an amended count of 4th Degree DWI as a misdemeanor. This is truly a remarkable outcome for the client because she registered a .26 breath alcohol concentration – more than three times the legal limit. Negotiating down to a misdemeanor DWI is no easy task, even when the client blows a .17 (just over the .16 aggravating factor level). So, to achieve a misdemeanor outcome with this high of a
Plea to a single count of gross misdemeanor DWI. What makes this outcome so great is the sentence received. The client was dead to rights and had no legal defense. He had two prior DWI’s within ten years and a high reading of .21 – this is often referred to as a Super-2 DWI. For a third-offense, the statutory mandate is for 30 days to be served in custody with 60 days on house arrest. Here, the cl
