California Department of Motor Vehicles Hearing

Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs (DUI), actually consists of two cases.  Most persons are aware of the criminal aspect of DUI cases and perhaps the criminal penalties that may imposed against you.  However, there is also an administrative side to DUI charges. 

Upon your being arrested for DUI related offenses, the law enforcement officer fills out a special form which is sent off to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).   Generally, the officer will also take your California Driver's License to be sent off to the DMV as well.  Although the arresting officer will generally provide you a copy of this form, most people do not read the fine print contained upon the form itself.  In fact, you have only 10 days from the date of your arrest to request a DMV administrative hearing in order to save your driver's license from being suspended or revoked.  A failure to timely make such a request will forfeit your rights to a DMV hearing.

The sole purpose of the DMV hearing is to decide what to do with your Driver's License.  Your driving privilege is a big issue!  You need the legal assistance of an experienced DUI Defense Lawyer at the Arnold Law Group.  Our DUI Defense Lawyers can set up the DMV hearing for you and represent you at these hearings.

DMV Hearings in Fresno, Madera, Merced and Tulare Counties

The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) hearing, is separate and distinct  from the criminal hearing and one does not replace the other.  Remember the DMV hearing only concerns your driving privileges and nothing else. 

At a DMV hearing, evidence in the form of police reports will be available to the DMV hearing officer.  Your statements will be recorded.  As such recorded statements may be available to the attorney prosecuting your criminal case, an experienced DUI Defense Lawyer is essential to represent you both at the DMV administrative hearing and the criminal case.

A DMV hearing can be beneficial as it allows our DUI Defense Attorneys at the Arnold Law Group, to gain access to evidence in your case sooner as opposed to awaiting for criminal charges to be filed.  Our DUI Defense Attorneys can quickly evaluate the evidence against you.  We can bring experts into testify on your behalf and submit evidence on your behalf.  Simply put, some attorneys do absolutely nothing for you at a DMV administrative hearing.  We will not only aggressively fight for you, we also have the ability and the know how to file a Writ of Mandamus, in order to overturn a poor decision concerning your DMV administrative hearing. 

Contact the experienced attorneys at the Arnold Law Group to fight aggressively to defend your driving privileges at a DMV administrative hearing in Fresno, Madera, Tulare and Merced Counties.