Super Extreme DUI reduced to Simple DUI
June 2021
Client involved in a roll over accident on the freeway, fortunately no injuries. She had a blood alcohol level of .21 % and was charged with the super extreme DUI offense of blood alcohol above .20.
Mr. Di Pietro attacked the investigation by law enforcement officers and emergency personnel who responded to the scene as vague and insufficient to provide probable cause to obtain a search warrant to draw blood.
Case was resolved by the State offering a reduced charge to a simple DUI of intoxicated to the slightest degree and recommended the minimum renter possible under the law.