Other Videos
What should I do after an accident?
Police officer first starts by getting all the relevant information from the other driver. The plaintiff should go to the emergency room or to the hospital right away to be checked up. It’s not unusual for a person injured in an automobile collision not to realize that they’ve got injuries the first day. You have shock. Sometimes the injury takes a little bit of time to materialize, particularly if it’s what we call a soft tissue injury. Obviously, if you’ve got a broken bone, you’re going to know about that right away. If you’ve got some internal injuries or a soft tissue injury, you may not know about it. Still, it’s very important that you go to a provider as soon as possible and have a checkup and then bring in the results of that checkup. You may have to follow up with physical therapy. It’s important that you keep all of your doctor’s appointments, that you do what the doctors tell you to do, and you keep records of how much it cost you, the billing.
Suing Your Insurance Company
If the person that hit you has the same insurance company as you, it doesn’t create a conflict. You can still sue them. Oftentimes, you’re suing your own insurance company. If the person didn’t hit you and you have uninsured motorists, then we would be filing a lawsuit against your insurance company.
License Suspension
If you have been given bad advice and you’ve had your license suspended as a result of that bad advice and you still have a pending DUI case, I’d still encourage people to call us, because we can still help you get your license back. One of the ways you do that is by resolving the case with a charge of less than DUIs. If your license has been suspended because you refused the state-administered breath test, that’s a one-year suspension. If you’re able to get the charge reduced to a charge such as reckless driving or failure to exercise due care, taking a certified copy of the disposition to the Department of Driver Services will usually help you get your license back quicker. Otherwise, you’re looking at a one-year suspension without any sort of temporary driving permit. If you feel like you’re not comfortable with your current attorney, and you want a second opinion, we give free consultations.
What to Do During a DUI Stop
If you’re stopped for suspected DWI or DUI, you should be polite, and you should answer the officer’s questions, but you should never submit the field sobriety test. The point of field sobriety test and a DWI investigation are solely to create probable cause to make an arrest for the DUI offense. The more evidence you give them, the stronger their DUI case is going to be against you. I always tell my clients you should never agree to do field sobriety tests. More than likely, they’re going to arrest you either way. If they’re going to arrest you for doing the field sobriety test, they’re going to arrest you for not doing the field sobriety test. Point is you want to give them as least amount of evidence as possible. Call your lawyer the next day so that we can accurately represent you in the matter and get you the best outcome.
How to Pay For An Injury Lawyer
If we take your case, we’re going to pay for everything that has to be done for your case until that case is resolved. If we have to pay for the filing fee, if we have to pay for depositions, if we’re paying for remediation, if we’re paying for expert witnesses, that all comes out of our pocket. You don’t pay until we get a settlement for you.
What You Have to Tell the Police
While it might be important to communicate with law enforcement and let them know about a situation, if you’re a suspect, you should never give a statement about the incident to police. Police are trained to interrogate. A lot of times they are pretending like they’re agreeing with you or believing in you, and really they’re just trying to set you up and say something that’s going to incriminate you. As a general practice, I think it’s a bad idea to speak to law enforcement without an attorney or to speak to law enforcement at all without having an opportunity to consult with an attorney. Best practice would be talk to an attorney before you speak or give a statement to law enforcement.
Misdemeanors vs Felonies
In Georgia, misdemeanors are punishable by up to 12 months of jail and a $1,000 fine. There are some high and aggravated misdemeanors that might have a higher fine. Felonies, the minimum term of imprisonment is one year and the maximum can be a life sentence. All felonies have a sentence greater than one year and a sentence greater than a $1,000 fine. All traffic violations in the state of Georgia are considered misdemeanor offenses. Most of those that we see here are DUI offense or speeding offenses, a lot of domestic violence offenses. The felonies that we deal with here range anywhere from drug possession to armed robbery, aggravated assault, and murder. We represent individuals charged in all aspects of the law, whether it’s misdemeanor or felony.
When Should I Call A Lawyer For An Accident?
Any time you’re involved in a car accident where you have personal injuries, where you have to go to the hospital, where you have pain, where you need to go see a doctor or you need physical therapy, you should contact a lawyer so that you know your rights, so that you know what your options are to get that treatment, how you pay for that treatment, where you go to get that treatment. Those are the kind of things that our office can help you with throughout the process to make sure that you don’t incur any actual out-of-pocket expenses while you’re going through treatment. We can resolve your case so that you actually pay for that treatment after the fact, through the settlement. Going to that treatment helps build your damages, it helps document your damages, and it helps make a better case for you in your personal injury claim down the road.
What Should I Do After An Accident?
I think the first thing you should do after you have a car accident is you should go to the hospital and be checked out, because you’re not going to hurt that day, more than likely, but you’re going to start hurting the next day or the day after. Having it documented immediately, having a referral to some sort of follow-up appointment, doing treatment, those are the kind of things that you can do for your case to make sure that you get the most out of your case.
When Should You Take A Plea
Probably 99% of all cases are resolved by way of negotiated plea. Maybe it’s the lesser charges. Maybe it’s the lesser time. Very few cases actually make it to trial. We find that plea bargaining is a good way to compromise with the district attorney’s office, to keep the client out of court, to keep him at work so that he’s not wasting his time going back and forth, and just realize minimizing the waste for the client. Resolving a case by plea deal is usually what we find ourselves doing. Occasionally, the prosecutor will dismiss the charges, and occasionally we have to go to trial. We specialize in trial representation.
How to Refuse A Police Request
In my experience, your goal and every encounter with law enforcement should be a non-hostile situation. You should try to remain cool, remain calm, don’t excite the police officers. You also want to be respectful. Whenever you’re stopped and you’re being investigated for any sort of offense, I’d recommend being respectful, politely declining to do any kind of field sobriety test, to say, “I appreciate it. No, thank you.”
How Long Is A Trial?
Most misdemeanor trials take one day to start and finish. Most felony trials take anywhere between three days and two weeks. Most of the time you’re looking at about three to five days in trial if you take a case to trial. That’s all depending on the number of witnesses, the length of the testimony, how the judge runs the courtroom. There’s a lot of factors to consider there.
How Much Is An Injury Case Worth?
Generally speaking, we tell our clients that the value of your case is worth anywhere from 3 to 5 to 10 times whatever your out-of-pocket expenses are for medical procedures. If you have $2,000 in medical expenses, then generally speaking, your case is going to be worth somewhere in the area of $5,000 to $10,000 depending on the circumstances which you were hit or the damages that follow. That’s just a very broad rule. It’s not specific. It’s just a general rule of thumb. I like to call it the three-to-five rule.
Consent to Search
A lot of the cases I see, the person ends up being charged after they give the police officer consent to search their property. Under no circumstances are you ever required to allow police to search your home, your car, your purse, your pockets. They can’t do that search without probable cause. Probably cause means that they believe that a crime probably has occurred or probably will occur in the near future. If a cop stops you and thinks that your car smells like marijuana, then they believe that they have probably cause that if they search your vehicle that they’ll find marijuana in your vehicle. If they don’t have probably cause, then they’re going to immediately ask for your consent. Say no. You don’t have to allow police officers to search your car for no reason.
Can An Attorney Help If I Had A High BAC?
That’s when you need the attorney the most because depending on when you get arrested and depending on your criminal background if this is your first arrest and we’re probably going to be able to do a lot of positive damage control for your case, a lot of times, if it’s your first DUI arrest and they’ve got a lot of evidence against you depending on the situation, we’re usually able to get the charge reduced down to something of the nature of reckless driving to avoid the mandatory license suspension and to avoid any future enhancements that may occur if you are charged with DUI in the future. You want to call us whenever there’s not any evidence. You want to call us whenever they’ve got a lot of evidence against you. Either situation, there’s always a way to try to mitigate the situation and do damage control.
Alternatives to Trial
If someone is charged with a crime, then you don’t always have to take that case to a trial. We believe that a jury trial is a good opportunity to submit a defense. If you don’t have a defense, maybe you’re caught red-handed and the cards are stacked against you, then maybe we want to do some damage control. Hiring a knowledgeable attorney to go into the district attorney’s office who knows the people in the district attorney’s office and able to sit down with those individuals and work out a resolution that’s fair to all parties is what we specialize in.