Reader’s Question:

A friend of mine was charged for DUI here in Oklahoma and in desperate need of finding a good lawyer to defend him. How can I research for the best Oklahoma DUI attorneys?

Patricia,

Tulsa, OK

Lawyers are a closely guarded and overseen group and records are available with helpful information about all lawyers. Since your friend is in need of the best Oklahoma DUI lawyer, there are a lot of ways to find a qualified one. He can use information available online to fine tune his search and he can also use public records. He can do a research about an Oklahoma DUI lawyer who already actually went to a DUI trial and has a good reputation.

Trial history and many other significant information can make the difference between him being convicted of DUI or having his charges reduced to much lesser counts. Researching Oklahoma DUI attorneys takes some effort; however, this effort is minor compared to the effort it takes to survive a DUI trial with incompetent representation.

Good luck.

Reader’s Question:

I am high school student in Oklahoma. An assignment was given by my health teacher regarding a blood alcohol testing. What is a blood alcohol test?

Jane

Lawton, OK

This is a physical practice to decide how much alcohol you in fact have in your system. There are three techniques of doing this test: first, the expert will pull out a sample of blood from your arm; second, they will be obtaining a urine sample; third, they will be obtaining a breath sample by having you breathe out into a machine called a breathalyzer. The breathalyzer is much more complicated and exact than the field sobriety test.

You have the option of which one of these three tests you will take. The only time your able to decide which test you take can lawfully be constrained is if you are in a region that purely does not have a breathalyzer. The officer is mandatory to tell you that the option as to which test you take is up to you. But quite frequently officers will try to pressure or browbeat a person into taking the blood test because this is the most effective procedure for the prosecution to use against a person in court. You do not have the right to refuse to take any test. Legally, the officer could hold you down and powerfully draw a blood sample from your veins. In practice this rarely happens excluding where an accident is involved which caused death or serious bodily injury. Instead, if you refuse to take a test, your driver’s license is automatically suspended for one year. Also, in your trial, the jury will be told that you refused to take the test and the judge will tell the jury that they can think about your refusal as evidence of your guilt.