Why your blood or breath test cannot be used against you (if you took the test before last Friday) On Friday, April 21, 2017, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued another opinion confirming its views that consent to take a breath or blood test must be knowingly and voluntarily given in State v. Scalera, SCWC-14-00001060. This […]
Category Archives: Criminal Defense
What is the ADLRO and why are they taking my license?
What is the ADLRO and why are they taking my license? The ADLRO is in place to take driver’s licenses away from people who have been charged with OVUII. The Hawaii legislature decided that arrestees are too dangerous to be allowed to drive because they may drive drunk again. The legislature established the ADLRO to […]
Top Five Questions you should ask before hiring an OVUII or DUI lawyer
Top five questions you should ask a DUI lawyer before hiring them 1. How many cases do you take each month? The truthful answer for most lawyers when asked this question is “as many as I can get.” Some lawyers will accept fifteen, twenty, even thirty cases per month. In Attorney Holcomb’s opinion, this does […]
DUI Checkpoints and Roadblocks
Roadblocks and DUI Checkpoints This is still the United States of America. It is illegal for a police officer to stop someone for no reason. Yet, if you have been stopped a DUI checkpoint or roadblock, you have been stopped for no other reason than driving down the road at the wrong time. If the […]