The California Vehicle Code sets out "per se" blood alcohol content amounts that create a rebuttable presumption that a person's ability to drive is impaired and is DUI.  The legal limits are .08 percent for all drivers and .04 percent for commercial vehicle drivers.  If you were arrested for Alc...

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST) are used by law enforcement officers as an investigative tool to determine whether a driver is drunk or impaired in some manner.  SFST's are usually requested by the officer if the officer smells alcohol or observes some objective symptoms that the driver ...

If you are arrested for DUI the officers are required by California law to serve a notice of driving privilege suspension/revocation order if the arrested driver does any of the following: 1) submits to a breath test with the results showing .08 or higher ...

As we have discussed previously on our blog, law enforcement officers need reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop upon a vehicle.  A driver who was speeding, weaving between lanes, rolling through a stop light or sign, driving with expired registration, talking on a cell phone, or textin...

The Metropolitan Courthouse, commonly known around Los Angeles as simply Metro, located at 1945 S. Hill Street in Los Angeles, is where the Los Angeles City Attorney prosecutes misdemeanor DUI cases where the arrests occurred in Central Los Angeles, including downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, Ec...