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California DUI Preliminary Hearings

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

If you are arrested in California for a felony DUI?and plead not guilty to the charge(s)?you are entitled to a preliminary hearing. A California preliminary hearing is held to determine if there is enough evidence to hold you to answer for your felony DUI charge(s). Because California preliminary hearings aren?t held in misdemeanor cases, the majority of this state?s drunk driving cases skip this phase of the California criminal court process, since most DUIs are misdemeanor offenses. This means that persons who face felony DUI charges?either because they have four or more DUI convictions within a ten-year period or were involved in DUIs that caused injury or death?will want to make sure they put the prosecution to the test at the preliminary hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).