2. Your attorney can help you negotiate a plea offer with the prosecutors, often arranging for a dismissal of charges or reduction of charges and less severe sentencing.
3. Your attorney helps formulate sentencing to your specific needs, i.e. sheriff's work program, treatment, DUI School, formal/informal probation, electronic monitoring, to help reduce the consequences you face.
4. Your attorney can help you better cope with emotions of fear and embarrassment over being arrested for a DUI.
5. Your attorney knows the laws and "loopholes", he can help you understand and protect your constitutional and legal rights.
6. Your attorney can issue subpoenas for officer involved in your case and any other potential witnesses.
7. Your attorney has extensive knowledge of local courts, rules, procedures, customs, resources and judicial personnel, that are very difficult to locate on your own.
8. Your attorney has ability to do legal research on your case far beyond what you can do on your own.
9. Your attorney can help save you money on fines and insurance costs.
10. Your attorney can provide a knowledgeable and objective perspective of your case. This perspective is important when you are making a decision about a possible "plea bargain" vs. trial.
11. Your attorney can, with your permission and request, explain misconceptions to your employer, affiliations and family members about your case. Many employers think that an arrest is an automatic conviction.
12. Your attorney can gather additional important information from prosecution, far beyond the police report.
13. You attorney knows how to question police/CHP officers, prosecution/defense witnesses under oath to your best advantage.
14. Your attorney can file motions in court to attempt to dismiss your case.
15. Your attorney can hire and manage experts (i.e. forensic toxicologist) and investigators, who may be able to believably impeach (contradict) prosecution witnesses and explain difficult to understand concepts to the jury (i.e. accuracy of test results), often creating reasonable doubt.
