San Diego criminal defense attorney David P. Shapiro goes to great lengths in this video outlining the many ways you can, and should, be proactive to ensure the best results possible when facing felony DUI charges in San Diego.

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Transcript: - Hi, my name is David P. Shapiro. I'm the owner and managing partner of the Law Office of David P. Shapiro, located in San Diego, California where my firm helps good people regain control of their future when charged with a crime. This video, I want to talk to you about how you can make proactive use of time especially in felony DUI cases. Now, felony DUI cases in California could be really a felony for one of really two main reasons. One is you have three or more priors within 10 years and your fourth one could be charged as a felony. But more often what we see are even first time DUIs where there's an accident, someone's injured other than yourself, and someone's injured pretty seriously. And/or if you have a really high blood alcohol level and someone's injured moderately. And what we see is you could be charged as a felony vehicle code section 23 1 53 A or B, DUI with injury. And depending on the severity of those injuries, the district attorney could allege that you caused great bodily injury in which case you would be subject to up to six years in state prison if you were to be convicted of the substantive DUI with injury charge and the great bodily injury. But this video, I wanna focus more on what you can and should be doing, whether you have a good case to fight all the way, whether you're really not sure at this point or whether you have the worst case in the world from a factual standpoint. And everything was done beautifully by law enforcement from the drawing of the blood, from the preliminary alcohol screening device, from the field sobriety test, from the traffic stop, from the search, anything and everything under the sun. It does not mean all hope is lost. And if you have not had this discussion yet with your attorney and with your law firm about what you can be doing to be proactive in the downtime between court appearances or before the first court appearance, you should. And if your attorney is resistant to things you can or should be doing and is sort of blowing you off and taking that as sort of you challenging their abilities and hey, don't tell me how to do your case, you might want to think about making a change. Because there are a lot of things that over time particularly in the last few years, starting in 2020 through 2021, 2022, and likely into 2023 with delays in courts, with delays still from COVID backlog, with delays in getting enrolled in DUI programs and everything that goes with it, you can make effective use of that time to differentiate yourself from everybody else who's charged with what you're charged with. Everybody else who has a felony DUI with injury pending, everybody else who might have been two and a half times the legal limit with the felony DUI pending, everybody else who might not have a great defendable case if the case were to proceed to trial, right? Because that's what all this is about. Otherwise, you're gonna be lumped in with the masses. And what's gonna happen is you're gonna get the same result as the masses get. And that's not gonna be something that you're gonna want. That's not gonna be something that's gonna be acceptable to you. And even worse if you pay significant amount of money, money arguably you might not have even even had at first and had to come up with or borrow to get the same result as everybody else, that's not what you're in here for, right? My firm is really big on differentiating ourselves from everybody else who does criminal defense in San Diego, from everybody else the judge sees in court, from everybody else the district attorney interacts with in court, from everybody else, a court reporter, court staff, anybody and everybody sees but it's not about us. It's also, especially in a courtroom, more so about our clients and differentiating our clients from everybody else to ensure they receive as good if not a better result than anyone else could get them than anyone else could possibly get on the facts of the case. And that to a degree, has a lot to do with how proactive you are in a DUI with injury case. If you need treatment, are you proactively getting treatment, right? Are you proactively enrolling in a DUI program? Are you going to counseling if that's appropriate? Is it something where you could proactively get on scram, alcohol monitoring device? Is there a way to craft a time from your arraignment, your first court appearance, until when the case eventually resolves whereas a condition of your bail you were ordered to have something known as CPAC. C P A C in San Diego with sober link monitoring your alcohol house arrest, right?
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