DMV Express Consent Hearing

“if you do refuse a test then you are going to have your license immediately taken away now the good news is if you call our office right after that or any criminal defense firm in the in the colorado springs area we can then petition the the dmb to get you a restricted license so refusing even though you lose your license the cops will tell you you're going to lose your license for a year the most you'll probably lose it is about 60 days but with that if you choose to refuse they”

“again if people call us we can go to the dmv ask them to reinstate their license and they can get their license back within 30 to 60 days so long as we are able to get that dmv hearing in time now what's really really important to understand is if you refuse a breath test or a blood test or you take a breath test you only have seven days from the time you get pulled over to the time that your license is gonna be completely revoked you only have seven days to request that dmv hearing if you miss the deadline for the request you don't have a license for a year so that really stinks that's why we're always telling our clients call us as soon as you get pulled over yeah for”

“if you take a blood test it's going to show everything that's in your system including non-drugs so i mean things like creatine show up so if you're drinking those creatine drinks those show up but if you do a blood test the benefit of doing a blood test is number one if you're not drunk take a blood test all day long show them you have nothing in your system number two if you know that you're not going to be over the legal limit like if you had one beer and you know it's not like one of those craft beers that's going to shoot you over the moon take a blood test it'll come back the other benefit of taking a blood test is you get to keep your license while you're waiting for blood results so while you're waiting for blood results the dmv is going to be processing the blood results um it can take anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months so you're free to drive that whole time you'll get a restricted license it's like a paper license saying hey i'm waiting for my blood results um and you can you can drive until you get that dmv request in once the dmv letter hits saying hey you're over then again you have seven days to contact a lawyer to get on that um dmb hearing track so that's the sweet spot to call us yes right there basically as soon as you see that you're over the legal limit call a lawyer”

“immediately um because that is one thing that is incredibly crucial as far as timing for duis go the actual criminal side of things takes a lot longer to get to the court system awesome cool oh learn something every day um so once we are called and we are hired what happens after that with a dui case so every law firm operates a little differently i can tell you what right that's definitely um what we do at wright law group is we are really big on being very very communicative with our clients we make sure that our clients can text us call us email us facebook us whatever they need to do we actually have had a couple of clients call us from the back”

“um with a dui case we do get a lot of questions about devices and cars and how does like that play in is this like everyone who gets a dui needs it is this after a couple duis what what how does that work um there are a couple different things at play so number one the d the dmv side and the criminal courts are completely separate but they do kind of talk to each other on some things so when you get a dui you are actually going to be dealing with the dmv first usually um and then the quartz so the dmv is a completely separate thing and unfortunately the dmv gets two bites at the apple so to speak so they can revoke you if you're over the 0.08 for alcohol or they can revoke you if you get a conviction”

“sometimes they can lessen if you're doing doing your thing i mean good choices as with anything if you make the right choices you're going to have a much easier time exactly exactly and then is that something that you get approved like through that interlock company is it the dmv is it the court how do you how do you get off that's a great question how do you get out of that how do you stop blowing yeah so with the the interlock device in your car um you have to get a private company to install it honestly i tell people that have really nice cars you want to get a like a bang-up car because it can really mess with your systems um sometimes the installation you want to go to a certified installer because if you get some janky like back alley person installing it they can mess up with all of your systems in your car then you might get pulled over again because it might turn your headlights off um so you want to make sure you have a certified interlock provider put it in your car um the ignition won't start unless you blow into the device and then they are reading it so these things are pretty sophisticated it has like a little tube that you blow into that measures your bac and then they've got a camera mounted on the dash so they are looking at you when you're blowing into it this is a big deal because if you get in your car and you're drunk and you ask your passenger to blow into it for you they will see that they're gonna see it they take pictures good luck yeah so you'll be on candid camera there we go um but to get it out of your car you have to talk to your interlock provider and say hey am i able to get off early they'll send a note to the dmv and they'll say we have not had any issues with this person we're good with them getting off early and then the dmv will process that so it's kind of a joint effort yeah yeah yeah that's good to know um”