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Monday, June 27, 2011

OWI-DUI-OUIL-EXPERT-KAREN-PHILLIPS-ON-PROTECTING-YOUR-LICENSE-WHILE-YOUR-APPEAL-IS-PENDING

By Michael Nichols

                Do you know that even if you are convicted of a DUI, or your license is suspended because you refused a chemical test, you can still keep your license if you appeal. “Many-people-are-not-advised-on-the-hidden-nuggets-in-the-law-that-can-help-them-when-it-seems-desperate-and-hope-is-lost” said OWI-DUI-OUIL-expert-Karen-Phillips. Phillips added, “there are provisions of the statute that governs the Michigan Secretary of State as well as license suspensions and appeals that allow for the circuit court in the county in which your case arose to block the Secretary of State from imposing a suspension so you can appeal.”

                Phillips, a Lansing-OWI-DUI-OUIL lawyer and member of the National-College-of-DUI-Defense, recent won a motion from a Lansing-area circuit judge, who ruled that the Secretary of State may not enforce the injunction while the appeal is pending. “It only makes sense because it preserves the status quo. If the accused citizen eventually wins a new trial and is acquitted, the remedy to her will be meaningless because the license suspension will mean she was already punished,” added Phillips.
                Ms. Phillips is available to take your call at 517.432.9000 or kphillips@nicholslaw.net. Call today.

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Mike Nichols is a national leader in drunk driving defense. He is a member of the Forensic Committee and Michigan delegate to the National College for DUI Defense. He is also a Sustaining Member of the College. Nichols is also a founding member of the Michigan Association of OWI Attorneys; a member of the American Chemical Society; an associate member of he American Academy of Forensic Science, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law and OWI Law and Practice at Cooley Law School. He is also author of the West OWI Practice book and several chapters in other books on science and the law.

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