What Happens When You Get a DUI in California? - YouTube

You just got arrested for DUI in California.

You're not sure what to do.

You don't have your license anymore.

You have this pink piece of paper and another piece of paper telling you what

your court date is.

How do you make sense of this?

Let's talk about your DMV hearing and your court appearance.

My name is [inaudible].

I'm a DUI attorney here in orange County,

California.

I've handled thousands of cases around here.

And today we're going to talk about what happens when you get a DUI

in California.

What to know about the DMV process and what to know about the court costs us,

stick around for my free checklist on what to do after you get a

DUI in California,

the checklist will help you get the breath machine logs,

the video and the police report.

Having this information in your hands before making decisions will

help you move along the process smoother.

As you're watching the video.

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a DUI in California.

What happens after you get arrested?

Let's talk about this.

After you get arrested for DUI in California,

the officer will give you a pink piece of paper.

This is what they call your temporary driver's license.

Your temporary driver's license will be good for 30 days.

After that your license will be suspended.

You want to avoid this license suspension in order to avoid this license

suspension,

you have to request what they call an APS.

Hearing.

An APS hearing is an administrative per se hearing in regards to

your DUI at a APS hearing,

they determine whether or not the officer had reasonable cause to pull you over

whether or not you had probable cause to arrest you and whether or not you will

owe eight or more at the time of driving.

If any of these is lacking,

then the case against your driver's license.

It's dismissed on top of that during this APS hearing,

and you can use this process to get the police report for your case,

you can also use the subpoena power to get the video for your case

and the breath calibration.

Finally,

during this process,

as long as the APSC hearing is pending,

your license will still be good.

Even if it's after the 30 day period during the pendency of this hearing,

they'll give you what they call it.

Temporary driver license.

With this driver's license,

you're able to drive as if your license has never been suspended.

The second thing that happens after your DUI arrest in California is the

court date.

Aside from the pink temporary license,

the police officer will also give you a slip indicating what your court date is.

If you're an orange County,

there's a high chance that you will not be seen on this date.

However,

let's assume that your court date does go.

Your first court date will be what they call it an arraignment.

And the payment is a day where you can enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.

The second court date will be a pretrial date.

A pretrial date is a fancy way to say negotiations or going back

and forth with the prosecutor about your case.

It gives you an opportunity to get more discovery for your case,

if you haven't seen everything yet.

And it also gives you an opportunity to go back and forth as

far as the terms and how to resolve your DUI,

don't forget to stick around for the three DUI checklist,

the DUI checklist.

We'll walk you through on what to do after you get arrested,

how to handle subpoenas and how to prepare for the court process.

In conclusion,

after you get arrested for DUI in California,

the two most important things that you need to remember is the DMV and the court

process.

If you remember nothing at all about this,

remember from the DMV process,

it's going to be a 10 day deadline.

And the court process is going to be what they call an arraignment dates,

doing these two stages.

It's important that you use the DMV hearing to get the police report,

breath logs and the video

before your court date.

So that way,

by the time you get to court,

we know what to do and where you stand on your case.

And then from the court date,

it would be a matter of negotiations or going to trial to fight your case.

As promised,

check out the link below,

it will take you to my resource page.

This resource page will give you the checklist for your DUI.

A top of this checklist.

It also has the numbers for the DMV driver's safety offices.

You could call this number or you can download a template that I have to request

a DMV hearing upon downloading the template.

You could fax it over to the number inside the resource page and reserve your

APS hearing.

So that way they don't suspend your license.

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Thank you for watching.