You should have your Oakland drunk driving attorney contact the DMV for you to set the time and date of your Admin Per Se Hearing arising out of your Northern California DUI or Bay Area DWI arrest.  However, if you have not hired a CA DUI Lawyer, and the 10 days are going to run out on you, preserve your rights and contact the DMV Driver Safety Office to get a hearing (Make Sure It Is the Driver Safety Office and not a Field Office), do not let the deadline pass.

   IF YOU SUFFER FROM A STOMACH PROBLEM AND TOOK A BREATH TEST, YOU SHOULD CONTACT THIS OFFICE IMMEDIATELY FOR AN IN-PERSON CONSULTATION BECAUSE YOU MAY HAVE ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSES TO THAT TEST!!!

The law office of Donald Gray Drewry is a criminal defense law office in the Bay Area representing people arrested for DUI or DWI. Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) is presently one of the largest misdemeanor, and sometimes felony, crimes prosecuted in the United States, and in particular Oakland California. Because of organizations such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), legislatures have changed California DUI laws making CA drunk driving more difficult to defend than just about any other crime on the books. This office handles DUI/DWI cases for people who have been arrested and charged with California Driving Under the Influence (DUI/DWI) of Alcohol and/or Drugs.

In addition to the criminal matter, this office handles California DMV Admin Per Se hearings. This is where the Department of Motor Vehicles attempts to take your driving privilege from you for the same act of DUI  or DWI driving as the criminal matter.  This means a driver's license suspension.

Contrary to what many attorneys who do not regularly handle DUI or DWI cases think, a DUI or DWI is not a traffic infraction, it is a misdemeanor crime that is vigorously prosecuted, and in some cases it is charged as a felony where people go to state prison. People are often given higher sentences than they should be, including jail time, when the case is not aggressively pursued. In fact, in some arraignment courts the judges list the penalties that they will impose on a defendant on the wall if the defendant will enter a plea on that date. This penalty will be given without the defendant first investigating the case to see if the defendant has a defensible case, and without the advise of an attorney. Many attorneys plead their clients to DUI or DWI at the arraignment stage of the proceeding without ever investigating the Intoxilyzer (breath testing equipment), or the police report or getting the blood retested. Checking those items is standard operating procedure for the law office of Donald Gray Drewry; and that is just the beginning.

How can anyone defend against a charge if they do not have all the facts? They cannot. Remember that an arrest for DUI or DWI does not always mean conviction. And where a conviction does occur, it should be reduced to the lowest possible charge and penalty.

This office believes that its clients deserve a vigorous DUI or DWI defense and gives them one in all the courts we go to in the Bay Area, such as Alameda, Berkeley, Castro Valley, Crockett, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Fremont, Hayward, Newark, Oakland, Richmond, San Leandro, Union City; Bayside East Bay and the rest of Northern California.

Office Hours:  Monday through Friday  8:30a.m. to 5:00p.m.

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