Arizona DUI InformationIs Your Arizona DUI Charge About To Ruin Your Life?

You likely got a taste of just how quickly the “system” is willing to turn on you and treat
you as a criminal when you were stopped for DUI.  Many people are often surprised how rude and indignant police treat them when they are arrested for DUI.  The police act this way because the system allows them to act this way.  From the police’s perspective, the court is their friend, not yours.

If you are arrested for DUI, the system will suspend your driver’s license for a minimum of one year if you refuse to submit to a breath, blood or urine test.  In most cases, the system will issue a warrant for your arrest if you do not show up for your first court appearance, unless you have a lawyer in a misdemeanor case.  The police are not required to be there.  If the prosecutor forgot your file, the court will reschedule you to come back on another date.  No warrant will issue for the police or the prosecutor.

In many courts, the court will not accept your guilty plea on your first court appearance.  This is because the court wants to make sure the prosecutor has enough time to thoroughly investigate your background to see if you have a prior DUI conviction.  This helps the prosecutor, not you.  When the officer testifies you did something and you testify you did not, the court will almost always find what the officer said to be true, regardless of how ridiculous or preposterous the officer’s version of events sounds.

Although the court systems were originally created and designed by our country’s founders to protect its citizens from government, the Arizona courts seem to operate from the ideology that they are processing criminals.  Consequently, the Arizona court’s view you as one of the criminals it is processing. One man who was wrongfully convicted of murder put it this way, “The best prosecutor in the curt room was the judge.”  Not all judges and courts are this way, but in my opinion, I have found this to be the case, more often then not in Arizona.  The only people that are their to help you are your family, friends and defense lawyer.

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