Colin saved us! I can’t say enough nice things about him. He helped us with an issue with our college son related to underage drinking that could have ended badly without Colin’s help. He was able to provide us a great strategy and then executed it seamlessly. Highly recommend him and his firm.
Polk County, Iowa- A GRL Law client was stopped for alleged erratic driving. Officers requested that he complete field sobriety tests, but the client politely refused the tests. The client then submitted to a PBT and was taken to the station for further testing. The client supplied a breath test which was over the legal […]
Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. GRL Law discovered that the preliminary breath test calibration logs for Floyd County Sheriff’s Office did not comply with the Iowa requirements and had not complied for many months. Because of this, we were able to save the full and commercial driving privileges of two separate clients and also successfully […]
A Mitchell County client was arrested and charged with OWI. Upon review of the jail video it was discovered that Client requested to call his attorney when asked to either consent or refuse to the Datamaster. In response the officer told Client that he had to make a decision first, then he could call his […]
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. Cedar Rapids police officers arrested a commercial truck driver for sleeping in his vehicle in a parking lot. They charged him with operating while intoxicated since being in control of a motor vehicle that has its engine running technically qualifies as “operation” under Iowa law. Understandably upset with his situation, […]
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 […]
Wright County, Iowa- A GRL Law client was stopped for alleged erratic driving. Officers requested that she complete field sobriety tests, and the client submitted to that request. The client then submitted to a PBT and was taken to the station for further testing. The client supplied a breath test which was over the legal […]
Appanoose County, Iowa- A GRL Law client was charged with Boating While Intoxicated (BWI), Second Offense. A conviction for BWI 2nd offense results in a minimum fine of $1,000, seven days in county jail, completing a substance abuse evaluation and completing all recommended treatment, and a loss of the person’s boating privileges for two years. […]
The drunk driving lawyers at GRL Law successfully negotiated yet another resolution to preserve a client’s CDL. After winning the DOT and suppression hearings, we leveraged those results by convincing the county attorney to amend the OWI to public intoxication and reckless driving with no jail time. The DOT would have disqualified the client’s CDL […]
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 […]
