Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (DUI) – LICENSE SUSPENSION REMOVED

The Glenview Police Department observed my client speeding 82 mph in a 45 mph zone. The officer stopped my client and detected a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, slurred speech and bloodshot/glassy eyes. The officer asked my client to submit to field sobriety testing in which the officer indicated that he failed. The officer arrested my client for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and brought him back to the Glenview Police Department for processing. At the police station my client refused to blow into the breath test. Because he refused the breath test after an arrest for a DUI, the Secretary of State suspended his driver’s license for one (1) year. In addition, my client had a CDL so his lively hood depended on that license. I filed paperwork to contest the suspension and had a hearing on his first court date. On cross-examination I made the officer admit that he adminstered the field sobriety tests incorrectly and therefore the tests were no longer reliable. The judge agreed with my argument and granted my petition to rescind statutory summary suspension. In other words, I won the hearing and the judge removed the suspension of his driver’s license!