DUI Consequences - Lessen the potential by cooperating with your lawyer

The vast majority of my clients are involved in their defenses, and cooperate with my office 100% by providing us with all of the information we need about their DUI case in a timely manner. I try to set the ground-rules early on in the attorney-client relationship. If there is something that might affect your DUI case, I need to know about it now.

Don't hold anything back from your lawyer. What your attorney does not know can only hurt you. The consequences of not telling your DUI lawyer something can be grave. A bad or embarrassing fact, something you said or did in the past, is not a surprise best left for me in the late stages of your case.

I don't want to find out in the middle of your trial that you "tweeted" somebody from your cell phone (from the bar the night of your arrest) that you were wasted and that it's fun to drive that way (fictional example). I don't want the prosecutor to confront you with facebook or myspace entries and photos that prove your guilt while you are on the witness stand. I don't want to find out that you have prior convictions after we have signed a plea agreement that calls for you to avow that you have none (also a fictional example). In short, if there is something you know about your DUI case that I don't, and I am your lawyer, then something is very wrong.

Open communication between you and your DUI lawyer is one of the most important aspects of your defense.