DUI & Criminal Traffic Defense
A DUI or criminal-traffic case is built one decision at a time: the reason for the stop, the length and scope of the detention, the transition into a DUI investigation, the instructions given, the video recorded, and the testing or refusal procedure that followed.
Control the roadside sequence before deadlines narrow the options.
What facts supported the traffic stop, and did the officer expand the encounter lawfully?
What do body camera, field exercises, driving pattern, and officer timing actually show?
Were breath, blood, urine, observation, and refusal procedures handled and documented correctly?
What deadlines, administrative consequences, employment concerns, and long-term record issues require action?
The arrest report is only the State’s version of the event.
DUI cases often appear straightforward on paper because the report arranges the officer’s observations into a clean progression. Video, timestamps, dispatch records, testing records, witness accounts, and the actual instructions given may tell a more complicated story. The defense begins by reconstructing the encounter rather than accepting the report’s sequence as established fact.
The legal review is equally important. A lawful traffic stop does not automatically justify every later detention or investigative step. The defense must examine when the encounter changed, what facts existed at that moment, whether the investigation remained within lawful limits, and whether evidence should be restricted or suppressed.
Abraham Elmazahi previously prosecuted DUI and criminal-traffic matters. That background helps the firm anticipate how the State may try to convert driving pattern, speech, appearance, field exercises, breath evidence, or refusal evidence into a coherent impairment theory—and where the underlying record may not support it.
The State’s roadside theory is reviewed from both sides of the file.
Abraham Elmazahi previously prosecuted DUI and criminal-traffic cases. That background informs the firm’s review of how driving pattern, officer observations, field exercises, breath or urine evidence, refusal allegations, video, and timing are assembled into a prosecution theory—and where the objective record may not support it.
Reconstruct the stop and testing record
The review follows the encounter from dispatch and the stop through detention, testing, statements, and license consequences.
- 01Dispatch, CAD, body-camera, dash-camera, and roadside chronology
- 02The stated basis for the stop and expansion of the detention
- 03Field sobriety instructions, conditions, demonstrations, and performance
- 04Breath-test maintenance, observation, operator records, and refusal procedure
- 05Statements, Miranda issues, witnesses, medical explanations, and medication
- 06Administrative license deadlines, mitigation, negotiation posture, and trial risk
Turn chronology and admissibility into the defense posture.
The plan should identify where the stop expanded, what the objective record shows, and which factual or legal challenge should drive the next decision.
Stop, detention, probable cause, testing demand, and admissibility.
Video, audio, timing, testing documents, and physical conditions.
How the prosecutor may frame impairment, refusal, or driving conduct.
Suppression, factual challenge, mitigation, negotiation, or trial preparation.
Put the stop, testing record, and immediate deadlines in one review.
A consultation can identify the current DUI or traffic posture, the records to obtain, and the next decision requiring prompt attention.