Reader’s Question:

Is it true that if I hire a lawyer, the lawyer can appear for me at the arraignment of my DUI case in Muncie, Indiana?

Elaine

Muncie, IN

The arraignment would be your first court date for your DUI charge in Muncie, Indiana. If your charge is a misdemeanor DUI, then definitely, you lawyer could appear for you, which means that you don’t have to be present at this court date. The same would be usually true for all your future court dates. At the arraignment of your case, your DUI lawyer would first, enter a plea of “not guilty” on your behalf, then he would receive initial set of police and scientific reports and he would also set the DUI case a pre-trial court date to occur a few weeks later.

At this point, your DUI lawyer and his staff would investigate and begin to develop the defenses and favorable issues in your DUI case. The preparation could include obtaining further documents from the prosecution, obtaining the maintenance history of the equipment used such as the breath machine, examining the scene of the DUI stop, interviewing third-party witnesses, reviewing the radio records and compliant history of the police officer, drafting motions to be presented at court and DMV hearings and having your own toxicologist analyze the blood or breath tests results.

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