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How To Select DWI Defense Lawyers

Searching for an attorney to handle your DWI defense can be confusing. Many lawyers promote themselves as DWI defense attorneys, but have no specialty in that area. Their sole reason for doing so is to have you plead guilty. Then you pay their retainer and other

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Do You Need To Hire A DWI Lawyer

DWI (driving while intoxicated) convictions can be devastating events. Such serious convictions can cause financial ruin, make you unemployable, and introduce other personal and professional problems. Because of the potentially catastrophic nature of a DWI conviction

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San Diego DWI Lawyers and Attorneys

You can find a skilled San Diego DUI lawyer near any of the four San Diego Courthouse locations. Sometimes it is a good idea to have an attorney who practices regularly in one Courthouse location. They tend to know the prosecutors and the judges, which can help by

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Did You Know?

Alcohol symptoms - in large doses, alcohol or ethanol acts as a central nervous system depressant and causes drunkenness, generally at a blood ethanol content of about 0.1%. At higher contents, alcohol causes intoxication, coma and death.
Legal drinking age - the minimum age one must be to drink alcohol. In most countries this is 16 or 18, but there are notable exceptions such as China, which has no minimum drinking age and the United States, where the minimum drinking age is 21.
Alcoholism - a dependency on alcoholic beverages characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence, tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk) and withdrawal symptoms.
DUI - Driving Under the Influence.
Recreational drug use - the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than for working or for medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear.