DUI and other alcohol offense charges can have a serious impact on your life, your rights and your driving privileges. Marietta criminal defense attorneys Maddox Kilgore and Carlos Rodriguez have a proven track record of success in successfully defending Georgia DUI cases. Our firm’s priority in DUI cases is always the same: get the evidence excluded, get the case dismissed or reduced, win at trial, and keep our clients driving and out of jail.

Our first approach is to have the evidence of consumption and/or impairment suppressed or excluded by finding where police may have violated a client’s constitutional rights in the way their person or property was searched, or in how the blood or breath sample was seized. Then, we explore any other factual defense available.

Evidence of alcohol or drug consumption can be thrown out if the way it was discovered

and seized violated a defendant’s Fourth Amendment Constitutional right to be free from unlawful search and seizure. If the police arrest you for DUI without probable cause, the blood,

breath, or urine sample obtained after the arrest is inadmissible in court. No evidence = not guilty.

Investigating and attacking any legal defense is the mark of an experienced trial lawyer.

This includes challenging the sufficiency and timing of implied consent notice. The Implied Consent Statute means that if someone is driving on Georgia highways or roads, they have implicitly consented to proving that they are not driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs by taking a chemical test. The refusal to prove one’s sobriety, results in the administrative suspension of their driving privileges. Specifically, challenging the sufficiency and timing of the notice.

Even if there is no legal defense requiring the suppression of evidence in a DUI charge, Kilgore & Rodriguez look for any possible factual defense to challenge the criminal charges:

• Attacking the validity of the Field Sobriety Tests (SFST’s)
  • Walk and Turn
  • One Legged Stand
  • Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN)
• Attacking the reliability of the Alco-Sensor and Intoxylizer Machine

If you are facing DUI charges, don’t delay in contacting an experienced DUI defense attorney to secure the best possible outcome. Experienced Marietta criminal defense lawyers Maddox Kilgore and Carlos Rodriguez can help.