GRL Law received a ruling today that suppressed the results of a breath test taken by a CDL holder. We discovered the officer made a mistake during the implied consent advisory. He advised the driver that a test failure results in a one-year disqualification, but a refusal results in a lifetime ban on his commercial […]
The state recently moved to amend a charge to public intoxication from OWI in a North Iowa case involving a test refusal. Why the amendment? The drunk driving attorneys at GRL Law were prepared to show that our client, a lifetime smoker, never refused testing. Instead, the officer deemed her to have refused after a […]
The impaired driving defense attorneys at GRL get results. A recent case in Mitchell County demonstrates how effective we can be when the stakes are highest. We recently took over a case from another attorney after the State refused to budge on a felony OWI and trial looked inevitable. After unpacking it, we discovered several […]
If you read our blog regularly, then you’ve seen several posts this year about GRL Law saving commercial driver licenses from disqualification. This post is no exception. Another CDL saved? That’s right! Our client was asked to submit a breath sample to determine his alcohol concentration. He consented to testing after which time the DOT […]
Another result of our relentless pretrial discovery efforts is now on display in Jasper County. After painstakingly reviewing every word of the implied consent video, we discovered that our client asked for an attorney. The officer did not honor this request, but instead requested a breath sample for testing on the DataMaster DMT. Our client […]
The impaired driving attorneys at GRL Law successfully negotiated another resolution to preserve a client’s CDL. After winning the DOT hearing, we leveraged that result by convincing the county attorney to amend the OWI to public intoxication with a minimum fine of $105 and no jail time. The DOT would have disqualified the client’s CDL […]
