DUI Lawyers,,DUI Laws,Penalties

Archive for June, 2009

Throughout the past few decades, there has been a rather steady increase in auto accidents, particularly due to intoxication and impairment. As a natural result, the number of dui-related law suits is also increasing, providing a heavy burden on the justice system to try cases involving auto accidents, as well as non-accident related DUI offenses. The effect of these DUIs is not only felt by the courts, but also by the insurance companies. Insurance rates have risen dramatically, and premiums are currently sitting at an average of over $1,000 in some places.

In San Francisco, DUI lawyers are getting plenty of work as more and more people are facing charges for drunk driving and DUI offenses. These DUI lawyers in San Francisco should not necessarily be the first line of defense when dealing with a DUI defense, but they can help in many cases. DUI attorneys can use the law to ensure that proper avenues are followed to allow for a fair trial, fair treatment, and if found guilty, a fair sentence. Most DUI attorneys simply want accountability to be correctly assigned and their client’s right to a fair trial to be upheld.

There are so many different legal precedents for DUI related accidents and crimes, and there are thousands of legal codes, road laws, and procedures that relate to many different DUI and traffic law scenarios – from drinking laws and traffic laws, to laws involving Miranda rights, written and spoken statements, and the right a fair trial. A good DUI lawyer must be highly trained and extremely well-versed in all of these potentially life-changing procedures. A trained, competent DUI attorney could easily be the difference in freedom and jail time or hefty fines.

San Francisco DUI Lawyers

Recently, Men’s Health magazine ranked San Francisco as the city with the ninth-highest number of DUI arrests, making one of the most dangerous places to drink and drive. However, the demographics of San Francisco, as well as its geographic location in the bay area mean that the City by the Bay hosts some of the most competent and well informed DUI attorneys that can help ensure a fair trial and fair treatment.

A DUI does not have to be a life altering event, and find a dependable San Francisco DUI lawyer can help make sure that your rights are left intact and that you are represented and adjudicated under the law with your best interests intact. If you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of facing potential DUI charges, call a DUI lawyer in San Francisco and make sure your rights are protected.

Learn about DUI Laws and Court with a DUI Lawyer

After reading some weekly updates to learn more about different areas of DUI law, you might have some questions about how particular headlines could relate to your DUI case. Learn more about DUI laws in your state and the next steps to take in your case with a local DUI lawyer.

Our DUI attorneys at Beauchamp Law Office will provide you with first-rate legal representation that will allow you to go on living your day to day life, just as you were before your DUI or DWI arrest.

Every state has drunk driving laws. Most states refer to drunk driving as DUI; some states refer to drunk driving as DWI; still others refer to drunk driving as OUI, OWI, DUII, DWAI, OUIL or OMVI. But no matter what you call it, the consequences are potentially severe: jail, fines, loss of driver’s license, required ignition interlock devices, attendance at alcohol education programs, lectures given by MADD, SADD, or RADD, community service or freeway cleanup, increased car insurance rates, a criminal conviction, and more.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have per se laws defining it as a crime to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above a proscribed level, 0.08 percent. Forty-five states permit some offenders to drive only if their vehicles have been equipped with ignition interlocks. These devices analyze a driver’s breath and disable the ignition if the driver has been drinking. In 30 states, multiple offenders may forfeit vehicles that are driven while impaired by alcohol.

Each year, states enact stronger DUI laws and more severe drunk driving penalties. You could lose your driver’s license, be placed in jail and fined substantial fees. Your car insurance rates may rise and you could end up with a criminal conviction on your record that could impact your future and your employment opportunities.

Using a DUI attorney or DUI Lawyer who focuses on drunken driving defense could make a difference in the outcome of your case. This is why it is important to use arizonadui.com to locate a qualified DUI Lawyer in your area.

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Every single thing you do and say has a degree of influence on you and on others. You are part of their external environment. You even exert a small degree of gravitational force on others, indeed, you exert gravitational force on the planet! Not a lot admittedly, but your mass does attract other mass. You knew that you should have paid attention in science class now. Just as aside, it’s quite a useful factoid for use when you have gained a few pounds of weight – you do so in order to become more attractive! That’s put paid to the glamour magazines.

The same is true for other people exerting their influence over you. Everything that other people say or do is a part of your external environment and that exerts an influence in turn over your behaviour.

The external environment beyond other human beings, also has some influence over you. The weather for example – when it is raining, it is quite likely that you would alter your ‘normal’ behaviour by carrying an umbrella, or wearing a rain-proof coat. You know for sure that the weather can have a major influence over your golf. When there is lightening, you would wisely move away from the fairways under the trees or into the clubhouse. Being struck by lightening is one influence that everyone can do without.

The problem with influence is that human beings have a tendency to assume that there is little you can do to change the way something influences you. Well, let me put this straight. You can and you do. Let us take an example of something that influences us and we do something about it – almost fight its influence on our lives. One that affects us all and that is our friend gravity. You see, gravity is ever present in our lives – there are a few exceptions but since that involves travelling into space I think I can safely assume that does not include you. If, by chance you have traveled into space – my question is – how far can you hit a drive out there? Must be awesome.

Back to earth. Gravity is a pretty constant force acting on our bodies – in order to combat the effects of gravity we develop muscles and utilise energy to stand against it. We truly appreciate how much effort is involved in keeping our body upright and moving only after suffering some physical damage, such as breaking a leg, even stubbing a toe let alone paralysis. When we are reasonably fit and well, we think little or nothing of getting up from a chair and walking, and most of the time, we do all this unconsciously. We have programmed our brain to take care of operating the correct muscles, keeping balance, walking, and all the while supplying those muscles and cells with energy through breathing and circulating our blood. If you had to consciously work out how to do everything we take fro granted, your conscious mind would be so occupied, nothing else would get done.

What’s the point of this? Well, it’s simple really – there are many many things occurring in your life, including when you practice and play golf, that influence your behaviour. Some things, like gravity, the weather, daylight, animals we cannot change. and we can choose to what extent we allow such to affect us and our behaviours. We can choose to be at cause for ourselves or at the effect of the environment and others. In other words, I’m disabling your potential for ‘excuses’.

Five Levels of Influence

There are, according to John C. Maxwell, five levels of influence – each with their own rights and each with their power to influence.

Level 1 – Position – This is when you have the positional authority (aka power) over someone else and they have to follow because of the power relationship. The most familiar situation when this is displayed is between children and their parent – in the never ending cycle of “why do I have to?” the exasperated parent running short of arguments or more frequently, time, responds “because I said so!” never an effective nor motivational response, but it sums up how leaders finally resort to this positional power to cause someone else to have to do something.

Level 2 – Permission – based on relationships – where people follow because they want to as they have a good relationship with you

Level 3 – Production – based on results that you have demonstrably achieved for the organisation. People follow because of what you have done for the organisation

Levels 4 – People Development – based on reproduction – people follow because of what you have done for them personally. This is the top level for most people and is only achieved with those you have personally developed – though your reputation for enabling others to excel will allow a superior level 3 (results)

Level 5 – Person-hood – based on respect – sadly very very few people will ever achieve this. Many aspire to this level – often disenfranchised level 1 leaders who consider that others should simply respect them. Leaders who demand ‘respect’ from authority rather than earn the genuine respect and admiration of others through their actions and continual display of care and concern for others, the organisation and standing up for forthright and important values.

Your ability to influence others is often misunderstood at best, and reliant on ‘luck’ at worst. Few leaders understand their position of influence with each of their constituents and fewer still, work a deliberate plan to increase their influential effectiveness with others.

In a future article I’ll discuss how you lift your level of influence…