Serving Fremont and beyond Dui Attorney Fremont

Our client was facing a serious charge involving fraud and deceit: filing a false police report. Due to a language barrier and some overzealous and aggressive interrogation techniques by the Pleasanton Police, what started as our client attempting to find out information about her duties under a different case, she ended up being arrested and taken to jail!

After a number of contentious pretrial hearings and discussions with a number of different deputy district attorneys, we decided to set the case for trial. Just before trial, we were able to work it out so that our client merely performed 30 hours of community service, had to continue to be a good citizen for 6 months longer and commit no new law violations, and the DA completely dismissed the case. She now has no record of any criminal convictions and can put this nightmare behind her.

San Jose court -- Client, a married professional with children was charged with P.C. 314 - Indecent Exposure in Santa Clara County and faced mandatory P.C. 290 sex registration as well as potential jail time. This would mean his name and face would appear on the "Megan's Law" type of websites that identify local sex offenders.

Through extended negotiations with the District Attorney, we managed to get the Indecent Exposure charge reduced down to Lewd Conduct, which does NOT carry the serious mandatory sex registration requirement! We also avoided any physical custody time for our client - not a day was spent in jail.

In a Fremont case where the police recommended PC 148 - Resisting Arrest and DUI charges, our client's BAC came back at 0.28, nearly FOUR times the legal limit. A jail sentence was a distinct possibility based on the facts. However, we were able to negotiate with the District Attorney and avoid any Resisting Arrest charges or jail time. Our client did not spend another day in jail thanks to our efforts - he received one day of outside supervised work as a jail alternative.

Client DD was facing his 3rd DUI in less than 5 years. He was arrested with a high Blood Alcohol Content of 0.21, which, with the recent past DUI convictions, meant the District Attorney would be seeking a stiff sentence with mandatory jail time.

Mandatory jail time on a 3rd DUI has a MINIMUM sentence of 120 days jail that cannot be served through the Weekend Work Program / Sheriff's Work Program.

Such a long jail term meant the client would certainly lose his job.

The Arant Law Group, APC worked first to secure the client's wellbeing and got him enrolled in a detoxification / inpatient alcohol treatment center.

Because his client works full-time and cares for his young daughter, Mr. Arant also negotiated with the District Attorney and court to avoid his client being taken into custody to set bail, which is usually mandatory in a 3rd DUI scenario.

Mr. Arant arranged to avoid bail setting by arranging for the client to be placed on an electronic monitor known as a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor or "SCRAM" bracelet, which ensures that the individual being monitored does not consume any alcohol while in the program.

Due to the negotiations by The Arant Law Group, APC, and the client's excellent progress in the difficult path of recovery from substance abuse, Mr. Arant worked out a deal where the client served his sentence through weekend jail at the North Alameda County Jail.

This was extremely important for the client because it meant the client could keep his job and work during the week to continue to support his family.

Another great victory for the defense!

Our client was passenger in the car with his girlfriend and both were the victims of a road rage incident where the other car followed them into their apartment complex and partially blocked him in. This understandably scared him, so he decided to get out and find out what was going on. Because he feared for his safety, he grabbed the only thing available inside of his car, one of his work tools, a socket wrench and got out of the car to try and scare away the other driver and passenger. When he came around to the driver's side of the aggressor's car the driver began to get out and move towards him, so he blocked the aggressor in a defensive manner. Because he still had his house keys in his hand, the aggressor suffered a very minor abrasion on their thumb. The District Attorney charged my client, who was merely defending his family, with 2 misdemeanors: The violent crime of Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Vandalism for the minor damage to the car. After a long series of negotiations with the attorney for the people, we were able to achieve a very good result in that the assault charges were dismissed and our client entered a plea only to the vandalism charge which carried with it a sheriff work program informal court probation and a fine instead of jail time. Most importantly, he will avoid having any violent crimes on his record. This case demonstrates the importance of having competent legal counsel at your side as our client was merely defending his family, yet found himself facing very serious criminal charges when he was not the aggressor.

Our client was stopped by the California Highway Patrol after almost swerving into a 18 wheeler. He admitted to smoking a blunt just 30 minutes prior to driving. District attorney charged with driving while under the influence of a drug as a misdemeanor. After intense negotiations with the district attorney, the people's first offer was a "Wet Reckless." After further negotiation, we were able to achieve a standard reckless driving charge, which resulted in only informal court probation only, and a very small fine instead of jail, mandatory DUI classes, large fines and mandatory license suspension. This is also important because, unlike a "wet reckless," a standard reckless driving charge is not "priorable," meaning if the client should pick up a DUI within the next 10 years it will only be his first instead of his second.