DMV Defenses

Ask your attorney if he or she conducts "in person" hearings at the DMV. If they say no, they are failing to maximize their clients’ chances of beating DMV at its own game. Using a little-known administrative regulation, we demand that DMV call all witnesses in person, which virtually ensures a victory in a blood test case because the blood test result is hearsay without the lab technician to testify about it.

DMV hearings are highly technical and not for the part-time DUI lawyer. We at the Santa Barbara DUI Center utilize a team approach. Attorney Lee McCoy and retired DMV Hearing Officer Carlos Tornes confer about each case and plan a defense tailored to the facts of a particular case. Do you deserve anything less?

DUI Defense #10

→ No admissible evidence of driving.

DUI Defense #11

→ Failure to comply with Title 17.

DUI Defense #12

→ You were not under arrest at the time of the chemical test.

DUI Defense #13

→ Recorded times are contradictory.

DUI Defense #14

→ Lab test report not signed "at or near" time of analysis.

DUI Defense #15

→ Lab test report not signed by a "forensic alcohol analyst."

DUI Defense #16

→ Critical issues can only be shown by double or triple hearsay.

Contact us if one of these defenses could help you.