DUI Checkpoints in GA – Can I Challenge the Roadblock Evidence against me? GA DUI Attorney answers
Atlanta DUI Lawyer and DUI book author William C. Head (aka BUBBA HEAD) explains about DUI checkpoints in Georgia.
DUI Checkpoints are presumptively unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment in EVERY state, twelve states have barred DUI checkpoint arrests under their state constitution. Not Georgia. Road bloacks CAN be used, but only if all the “i’s” are dotted and all of the “t’s” crossed. Your Georgia DUI attorney’s detailed evaluation is CRUCIAL to winning a case involving a DUI check point in GA.
DUI checkpoints, or roadblocks, in Georgia are a method of police officers coming into contact with drivers who have committed no traffic violations. In other words, with no PROBABLE CAUSE or reasonable suspicion to pull you over, you are fored to stop.
So, your DUI checkpoint MAY NOT be constitutional, even though Georgia DUI laws allow them.
If you are considering hiring the best Georgia DUI attorney, ask questions about his or her experience at fighting roadblocks and winning pretrial motions to have the DUI check points declared to have been illegally established or supervised. Your GA DUI lawyer should know the two most recent Georgia Supreme Court cases (Williams and Brown), and be able to tell you what those two cases established to change prior appellate law in Georgia. Ask them about the LaFontaine appeal in the Georgia Supreme Court, handled by Mr. Head fifteen years ago.
By winning the road block motion, the case against you should be over. TEAMDUI.com attorneys know Georgia DUI laws and GA DUI checkpoint law like the back of their hand. They specialize in Georgia DUI law.
Attorneys who specialize in DUI defense, know the typical DUI checkpoint locations in their part of Georgia. For example, after a Georgia Southern football game in Statesboro, the Georgia State Patrol, including the Nighthawks, special DUI task force, will let most heavy traffic clear for a few hours after the game before establishing several road blocks in Bulloch County and Chatham County plus at exits off I-16, plus possibly in other counties along state highways located between Savannah and Macon.
These DUI checkpoints yield hundreds of arrests after each game — day or night.
Atlanta likely has the greatest number of DUI checkpoints each year, but sports events across Georgia create aggressive enforcement of police officers in setting up roadblocks. Atlanta DUI Lawyer William C. Head also has noticed that seasonal events like the Atlanta Motor Speedway will result in more sobriety checkpoint road blocks after a NASCAR race.
Mr. Head has been located in metro Atlanta for two and a half decades, with a main office at the Concourse V Building (the Queen Building) in booming Sandy Springs (Fulton County), and has multiple satellite office locations in Marietta and Smyrna in Cobb County, Duluth (Gwinnett County), Decatur (Dekalb County), downtown Atlanta (Fulton County), Alpharetta (Fulton County), on the east side of Atlanta in Conyers (Rockdale County), on the south side of Atlanta, in McDonough (Henry County), and further east, out GA HWY 316, in Athens (Clarke County). Outside of metro Atlanta, the other TEAMDUI.com regional affiliates provide aggressive, local criminal defense and DUI defense legal services. All of these attorneys were hand-picked to be in TEAMDUI.com by Mr. Head.
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