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• I appear in courts throughout the Detroit and Southeast Michigan area, representing persons accused of drunk driving.
• Your ticket or bond receipt may say OWI, OWI with a High BAC, or OUIL. You may call it DUI, or DWI, or DUIL.
• You may have been stopped and arrested in Wayne County, Oakland County, Macomb County, or any of the rest of Southeast Michigan.
• It all comes down to this: YOU'VE GOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM. You've been charged with a crime. That charge can take your driver's license. It can put you in jail. It can cost you years of extra insurance premiums, not to mention fines and court costs. It can take away your CDL (Commercial Driver's License). It can put you on probation for years.
• Whether it happened in Dearborn, Westland, Detroit, Allen Park, Woodhaven, Ann Arbor, Monroe, Redford, Taylor, Romulus, Novi, or anywhere else in Southeast Michigan, you need my help.

• Just because you are accused, doesn't mean you are guilty, and it doesn't mean the prosecutor can prove you guilty!
• As a former prosecutor for both the City of Dearborn Heights, in Wayne County, and for the City of Troy, in Oakland County, I have seen the Michigan drunk driving law from both sides. I say, "If you've got a defense, I will probably recognize it, because it was probably used against me while I was a prosecutor."
• I travel to district courts and circuit courts throughout Southeast Michigan.
• I also appear at the Secretary of State Office of Hearings and Administrative Oversight, also called Driver License Appeal Division (DLAD), on driver's license restoration hearings and implied consent hearings.

• Probation Violations
  • also called Show Cause Hearings
  • also called VOP (Violation of Probation)  
• DWLS (Driving while License Suspended)
• DWLR (Driving while License Revoked)
• Traffic Tickets

• Do not go to court assuming that you must plead guilty to whatever the prosecutor might offer you. The prosecutor is not your friend. The prosecutor is not looking to find your defenses. I will work diligently to find those defenses.
• Be wary of courts that offer a court appointed attorney who will spend only a few minutes on your individual case. Many court appointed attorneys are well qualified, but they cannot devote the time to your case that an attorney you hire yourself will spend on your case.