DUI attorney Dave Jake Schwartz has been a DUI lawyer here in Sonoma County for nearly 20 years, graduated from UC Davis, and UC Hastings Law School with top honors, and is a former law clerk to a Federal Judge.
DUI is a serious criminal charge with jail, fines, suspended license, weekly DUI school, years of probation, and a criminal record.
The Sonoma County District Attorney who decides whether to charge you with a DUI in Santa Rosa is a Lawyer.
The Assistant Sonoma County District Attorney who argues a DUI case against you in Santa Rosa is a Lawyer. The Sonoma County Judge who would sentence you for a DUI is a Lawyer.
Even Sonoma County law enforcement who arrested you have their own lawyers.
The New York police department is very unhappy that Google’s Waze crowd sourcing navigation app allows users to post the locations of the NYPD’s DUI checkpoints. In a whiny demand letter dripping with frustration and misplaced legal expectations, NYPD’s acting deputy commissioner for legal matters complained that "The NYPD is focusing significant resources to DWI enforcement. including the use of vehicle checkpoints throughout the city…[but] has become aware that the Waze mobile application, a community-driven GPS navigation application owned by Google LLC, currently permits the public to report DWI checkpoints throughout New York City and map these locations on the application." Read More >
In 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 1076, making Sonoma DUI expungements automatic with DUI convictions occurring after January 1, 2021, for people who complete their term of DUI probation without revocation, and are not currently serving any other sentence or facing any other criminal charges, with few exceptions. The new laws will require the department of justice to review statewide criminal justice databases, identify persons eligible for automatic expungements, and grant that relief by dismissing the DUI conviction, adding a note in the person’s criminal record stating “relief granted,” and notifying the court, who in turn will stop disclosing the DUI conviction in most situations. Read More >
Starting with DUI arrests on or after January 1, 2019, most people convicted of a DUI in California will be required to install a vehicle breathalyzer, also called an ignition interlock device, or “IID”, in order to avoid a suspension of driving privileges by the DMV (but keep reading, you might be able to opt out). Passed in 2016 and taking effect on January 1, 2019, SB-1046 amends several vehicle code sections to require installing an IID breathalyzer for up to six months for first-time adult DUI offenders who elect to avoid any driving suspension. The IID requirement would be one year for a DUI conviction where a prior offense or injuries are alleged. The new laws authorize but do not require installation of an IID for a “wet reckless” conviction. Read More >
On September 11, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law prohibiting drivers and passengers from smoking, or otherwise consuming marijuana while driving. Existing law, set out in Vehicle Code Sections 23220 and 23221, had banned drinking alcohol while driving or riding as a passenger in a motor vehicle, and the new law added smoking or consuming marijuana to the prohibited activity under these vehicle code sections. The unlawful conduct remains an infraction, meaning that, contrary to a DUI, the penalty is a fine only, not a crime under California law. Read More >
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Why Hire a Lawyer?
Good people make mistakes; get the relief you deserve by getting your Sonoma DUI conviction dismissed. An expungement can make a critical difference seeking employment, and may improve your position even if you still have to disclose, with housing, occupational licenses & certifications, college admissions, bank loans, immigration status and many other life advancements.
But the best Santa Rosa DUI lawyers know this: DUI expungement laws have changed and toughened, and different counties have different DUI expungement procedures, and typically there is only one chance to petition a Sonoma County court for this relief from a past DUI conviction.
A smart, quick Sonoma DUI attorney like Jake can fully inform and prepare you, submit the correct DUI expungement forms with the proper language, and give you your best chance at successfully dismissing your case so you can legally not reveal a past DUI conviction.
Attorney Paul Heinrich, Geneva, Illinois
Dave Jake Schwartz is an Honors Graduate from UC Hastings Law School, and UC Davis, former Federal Judicial Clerk, and Nationally Qualified Sobriety Tests Practitioner. Member of the California Bar for 30 years, Sonoma County resident for over 20 years, handles only DUI cases, including thousands of Sonoma County DUIs and DMV hearings: first/multiple offenders, minors, seniors, tourists, undocumented immigrants, veterans, probation violations, suspended license, public intoxication, open container, minor in possession, child endangerment, collisions, hit and run, evading, resisting arrest.
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