| A DUI in Ventura can be a scary thing. One moment | | | | Ventura county or driving with an illegal blood alcohol |
| you are driving along and the next you find yourself | | | | level in Ventura County, he will arrest you and ask that |
| by the side of the road, answering questions, | | | | you submit to a final breath or blood test. You can |
| performing a series of strange tasks you have never | | | | refuse this test. However, if you choose to do so, the |
| even heard of before, and being required to submit | | | | DMV will suspend your license for one year and |
| to a test of your blood, breath, or urine. At the Law | | | | evidence of your alleged refusal can be used against |
| Office of Jennifer Zide, our goal is to put you back in | | | | you in court. |
| the driver's seat when you are facing a DUI in Ventura. | | | | Your DUI Tests In Ventura |
| We empower you as a client by fully discussing and | | | | In addition to the information and observations obtained |
| analyzing your case with you, consulting with a | | | | by the officer in your DUI in Ventura, the officer will |
| forensic toxicology expert about your DUI case, | | | | require you to submit to "field sobriety tests" which are |
| respecting your goals, protecting your rights, and | | | | designed to gauge your alleged level of impairment |
| always going above and beyond to get you the best | | | | and a preliminary alcohol screening breath test which is |
| possible results in your DUI in Ventura. | | | | intended to evaluate your blood alcohol level. |
| Your DUI Arrest in Ventura | | | | Although field sobriety tests are presented as reliable |
| When you are first stopped for a DUI in Ventura, the | | | | and scientific indicators of a driver's state of |
| officer will either stop you based on something called | | | | intoxication, they are in fact open to errors in both the |
| "reasonable suspicion" to believe you are driving under | | | | administration and interpretation of the tests. These |
| the influence or with an illegal blood alcohol level or the | | | | errors mean that the results are not in fact accurate |
| officer will stop you for a traffic infraction. This | | | | indicators of either excessive blood alcohol level or |
| "reasonable suspicion" must be based on specific and | | | | state of intoxication. As with the field sobriety tests, |
| articulable facts that the officer can explain that | | | | the breath and blood tests are open to errors ranging |
| supported his belief that you were then under the | | | | from inability to separate out other substances |
| influence or driving with an excessive blood alcohol | | | | (so-called "interfering substances") that may falsely |
| level. It can never be based merely on an officer's | | | | register as alcohol, inability to detect mouth alcohol and |
| "hunch", his feeling about a specific car or driver, or a | | | | to distinguish that from alcohol found in a person's |
| person's appearance. In a DUI stop, this "reasonable | | | | blood, problems with calibration and maintenance of the |
| suspicion" is often obtained through observing a driving | | | | devices, margin for error, operator error, and potential |
| pattern that leads the officer to suspect, based on | | | | contamination/ degradation issues. All these issues call |
| specific and articulable facts, that the person may be | | | | into question the validity of the field sobriety tests, the |
| either driving under the influence or driving with .08% or | | | | preliminary alcohol screening test, and the final breath |
| greater blood alcohol level. For a charge of driving | | | | or blood tests as reliable or accurate indicators of |
| under the influence in Ventura County, it must be | | | | either blood alcohol level or impairment when used |
| shown that your ability to drive was, at the time of | | | | against you in your Ventura DUI. |
| driving, actually impaired. For a charge of driving with | | | | At the Law Office of Jennifer Zide, we are committed |
| .08% or greater blood alcohol level in Ventura County, | | | | to fully analyzing your Ventura DUI and exploring all the |
| no actual impairment is required; the crime is committed | | | | issues involved in your case and your alleged test |
| merely by driving with a blood alcohol level that is | | | | results. We retain an experienced forensic toxicology |
| allegedly in excess of the legal limit. A stop can also be | | | | expert to fully evaluate all the potential issues involved |
| justified if an officer observes you committing a traffic | | | | with your breath or blood sample. We are committed |
| infraction, such as speeding. Even in the case of a | | | | to protecting your rights and making sure that you |
| traffic infraction, the officer often uses his contact with | | | | have the best defense possible when you are |
| you to attempt to make observations as to your | | | | charged with a DUI in Ventura. |
| condition and to gather information which can then be | | | | Your DUI Attorney Ventura |
| used to develop a Ventura DUI case against you. | | | | At the Law Office of Jennifer Zide, we are YOUR |
| After the stop, the officer will attempt to build up | | | | DUI attorney Ventura. REMEMBER: YOU ARE IN |
| information to use against you in a DUI in Ventura. He | | | | THE DRIVER'S SEAT. At the Law Office of |
| will ask you to provide information, submit to tests | | | | Jennifer Zide, we are on your side helping you |
| including field sobriety tests, and provide a breath | | | | navigate the Ventura DUI system and get the best |
| sample for a preliminary alcohol screening test. After | | | | possible results in your Ventura DUI! Call us today at |
| the officer has gathered information against you which | | | | 805-477-0327 to discuss the details of your Ventura |
| he believes rises to the level of "probable cause" to | | | | DUI case and all your options. |
| believe that you are driving either under the influence in | | | | |