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Drunk Driving My very first client when I began practicing on my own was a former secretary who had been arrested and accused of driving under the influence of alcohol. With nothing else to do, I bought and poured through a three-volume set of Erwin's treatise entitled Defense of Drunk Driving Cases, as well as every other book on the subject that I could get hold of. We then litigated the hell out of that case, eventually reaching a settlement just prior to trial. Since then, I have gone through numerous jury trials on behalf of people arrested for drunk driving. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we lose. But as one crusty old defense attorney once said about these cases: "You can't win 'em if you don't try 'em." The process >> |