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

A Niles Police Officer observed my client going through a red light and failed to use a turn signal when making a right turn. The officer observed my client to have a strong odor of alcohol coming from his breath. The officer also observed an open bottle of Grey Goose Vodka and Hennessy Cognac in the back seat. My client admitted to the officer that he had been drinking alcohol. The officer asked my client to submit to field sobriety testing. My client refused any field sobriety tests. The officer then arrested him for driving under the influence of alcohol. At the police station my client refused the breathalyzer test. I filed a petition to rescind statutory summary suspension immediately in order to prevent my client from having his license suspended for one (1) year because of his refusal to submit to breath testing. The State of Illinois was not ready to have a hearing on my petition and we won the license suspension because of that!