El conducir en estado de ebriedad no es una buena idea. Uno siempre debe estar seguro que está en buen estado a la hora de ponerse al volante. Sin embargo, en Texas no es ilegal ponerse al volante si ha tomado anteriormente. El problema ocurre cuando uno pierde sus facultades mentales o físicas a causa del alcohol o tiene un mayor nivel del contenido de alcohol en la sangre (BAC) de lo que la ley permite y aún así conduce. La ley en Texas permite que uno maneje con un contenido de alcohol en la sangre (BAC) debajo de 0.08.
Si usted es arrestado por conducir en estado de ebriedad, debe tener cautela al escoger un abogado. Primeramente, debe de asesorarse y buscar a un abogado de confiar con el cual usted se sienta cómodo. Si usted está en trámites con inmigración, deberá asesorarse con un abogado de inmigración para ver que repercusiones podría tener este caso con dichos trámites. Por la misma parte, si usted es un profesionista y tiene una licencia estatal, deberá comunicarse con la Mesa Directiva de su Profesión para averiguar si este caso podría afectarle.
Si usted está pensando en declararse culpable para terminar con su caso pronto, esté atento a lo que puede pasar. Una convicción puede tener consecuencias. Entre ellas, estaría en su historial criminal de por vida, su licencia de conducir podría ser suspendida y aparte tendría que pagar un recargo de $3,000 al Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DPS, por sus siglas en inglés). Aparte de estas consecuencias, usted podría perder su trabajo.
Para más información sobre la importancia de un caso de conducir en estado de ebriedad, llame al 713.783.8998 para un consulta gratis.
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I had the privilege of teaching at this year’s Texas Trial Lawyers College in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Trial Lawyers College is a one-week, intensive school for young lawyers who want to improve their trial skills. A student in one of our break-out sessions this week gave a rather uneven performance. The assignment was to deliver an opening statement in a sexual assault case. I was surprised, frankly, because the student is talented and the assignment should have been her opportunity to shine.
The following day I spoke with the student and she explained why she might have been distracted during her opening statement. Apparently the student just learned that she was one of a group of criminal defense lawyers in Lubbock, Texas, which a local television station erroneously reported on the internet had been charged with a misdemeanor crime. The television station — KCBD-TV in Lubbock — apparently confused the lawyers with the defendants they represented. KCBD apparently never bothered to check the local county records, which correctly listed the defendants and their charges, as well as the names of their attorneys.
KCBD removed the erroneous information from its website. Unfortunately, as the slandered Lubbock lawyers have quickly discovered, even deleted information can exist in perpetuity on the internet. A person who Googles the slandered lawyers’ names might mistakenly conclude that the lawyers were charged with various misdemeanor crimes.
Although a person accused of a crime is presumed innocent in a court of law, what about the court of public opinion? Where — to paraphrase former United States Labor Secretary Ray Donovan, who himself was acquitted of a crime — does a person go to get his reputation back, after he has been slandered on the internet? The answer in this case is not so easy. Arguably, the slandered lawyers have no adequate or available remedy. Here’s to hoping KCBD has access to some very good lawyers of its own. If the press sometimes wonder why people no longer believe everything in the press, the case of the slandered Lubbock lawyers is Exhibit “A.”
– Grant Scheiner
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