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Hiring a Good Raleigh DWI lawyer…

If you’ve recently been stopped for a DWI, you’ve probably received dozens – or hundreds – of letters from lawyers, advertising their services and their prices.
No lawyer can guarantee an outcome. Avoid letters where the lawyer promises a result. And just because you pay more for a lawyer doesn’t mean you’ll get a better [...]

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Wake County is Fortunate, No Sheriff Joe Arpaio Here

Wake County is fortunate not to have Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I used to live in Maricopa County, Arizona, which is Arizona’s most populous county and also home to Phoenix. Maricopa County is huge, about as large as the entire state of New Hampshire.
In the “incorporated” areas – Phoenix, Tempe, Glendale, Scottsdale, Mesa and so on [...]

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The Client Interview, What to Expect from a criminal lawyer in Raleigh, Cary, Apex

Most people I deal with have never talked to an attorney before.  Or they’ve never talked to a defense lawyer about a criminal matter.  Now they’re facing serious accusations – for instance, accusations that they’ve committed a sexual offense of some sort – or they’re facing a Driving While Intoxicated (DWIA DWI is a Driving…

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New York leads the way with tougher DWI, drunk driving laws

In North Carolina, driving with a child under the age of 18 in your car at the time you were impaired is considered a “grossly aggravating factor” for which the judge must impose a Level 1 punishment as of December 1, 2011. Level 2 is also a severe sentencing level under North Carolina’s misdemeanor statute….

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Driving While Impaired Charges are Commonplace

Senator John Kerry’s daughter was arrested earlier this week in California on suspicion of drunk driving. I’ve written elsewhere about North Carolina’s Driving While Impaired (DWIA DWI is a Driving While Impaired offense. It is more commonly referred to as drunk driving. In North Carolina, the term DWI is used. In other states, the terms…

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