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In my DUI Law Blog I recently posted a summary of a new Arizona Court of Appeals DUI Case. The case deals with a defendant who fled, was later caught, and then claimed his attorney didn’t properly advise him of a plea offer. He claimed that if he had been advised, he would have accepted it. The Arizona Court Of Appeals didn’t buy the argument, but it does bring up an important issue for those accused of DUI…
Make sure you stay in contact with your attorney. If your attorney doesn’t contact you on a regular basis (say every 2-3 weeks), you should contact your attorney just to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks.
And don’t flee. It only makes matters much worse when you get caught.
I completely agree–it’s important tohave open communication between you and your attorney. Well I am not about to seek an appeal for my conviction, I had a horrible experience with my attorney because of their lack of communication. I hired XXXXXXXXX Law offices (www.XXXXXXXXXlawoffices.com) in Phoenix and worked with XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX and I at first had full confidence in her abilities as an attorney, but soon found out that I was not an important client.
I never heard from XXXXXXXXXX or any other lawyer from the XXXXXXXXX offices, my police report was never sent to me until I basically stalker called her offices and she never had the decency to attend any of my hearings (she always sent someone else). In the end I felt that I was rushed to make a decision and wasn’t allowed to really take my time to decide if I wanted to go to trial. I felt that if she communicated with me more, by providing me with all the information in a timely matter, I wouldn’t of had to make the decision in a little room with a strange lawyer I never met (who was never given any of my case information by XXXXXXXX).
In the end like the article states–keep those lines of communication open!