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

The Chicago Police Department observed my client commit numerous traffic infractions. The Officer pulled my client over and observed her to have bloodshot and glassy eyes, slurred speech, odor of alcohol and she made an admission that she had been drinking alcohol earlier in the evening. The Chicago officer asked her to perform field sobriety tests. The officer indicated that she failed the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test (HGN), Walk and Turn Test and the One Leg Stand Test. The officer arrested her for DUI after all of the observations of intoxication that he observed. At the Chicago Police Station my client refused to take the breathalyzer test. Therefore, the Secretary of State was going to suspend her license for a period of one (1) year. I filed paperwork in order to have a hearing to prevent the license suspension. The prosecutor did not give my client a hearing with the required 30 day period. I made a motion for the judge to grant my request to remove the license suspension for lack of hearing within 30 days required by the statute. The judge agreed and removed the one (1) year suspension!