Orange County DMV Hearing Attorney

DUI Lawyer in Orange County, California

After an Orange County DUI arrest, you only have 10 days to schedule a DMV hearing. If you do not act quickly and schedule this hearing, your driver's license will be suspended automatically 30 days after your date of arrest, regardless of the outcome of your Orange County DUI criminal case (even if you are found not guilty!)

As an Orange County DUI defense attorney, I provide aggressive representation at DMV hearings in addition to criminal court cases. I believe that by using my talent as a defense attorney in preparing for the DMV hearing, I give my clients an advantage in their criminal case as well. In fact, after a successful DMV hearing, wherein I effectively prove that a police stop was unlawful or that breath/blood tests yielded inaccurate results, I may be able to have criminal charges dropped before my client's case goes to trial.

Orange County Administrative Per Se Hearings & DUI

As an Orange County DMV lawyer, I understand how DMV hearings relate to DUI charges. DMV hearings are also referred to as administrative per se or APS hearings. Held at your local Drivers Safety Office of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, this is a purely administrative hearing which is not overseen by a judge or other court official. This hearing is conducted by a DMV employee, a hearing officer, who will act as both prosecutor and judge, so to speak.

Your DMV hearing will concern several major topics, if you took a breath test or blood test:

• Did the officer have reasonable cause to suspect that you were driving under the influence?
• Did the officer lawfully arrest you?
• Were you driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08% or higher?

As your Orange County DMV hearing attorney, my job would be to disprove the above items. I would need to prove that your blood alcohol level was in fact below the legal limit, that you were not lawfully arrested, or that the officer did not have reasonable cause to suspect drunk driving in the first place. This may be done using any one of many DUI defenses, but will depend upon the specific case and circumstances.

Contact Orange County DMV Lawyer Barney Gibbs!

While you are not required by law to request a DMV hearing, your failure to do so will result in the suspension of your driver's license. And while you are not required to have legal representation at your DMV hearing (in fact, there is no public defender available for DMV hearings, as they are not criminal court proceedings), working with an Orange County DMV lawyer is your best chance of fighting your license suspension and winning.

I handle DMV hearings for my clients facing DUI charges throughout Orange County, California, including Tustin, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Newport Beach, Westminster and Fullerton.

Contact Orange County DMV attorney Barney B. Gibbs today!