DUI Defense

Virginia Drunk Driving and Felony DUI Defense Lawyers

At Cravens & Noll in Chesterfield and Henrico, our attorneys provide careful, experienced, and reliable client service on the full range of DUI charges from first offender cases to felony homicide cases. For a free initial consultation about your legal options in defense of a DUI case, contact a lawyer at either of our Richmond offices.

Even for a first DUI conviction, the penalties and fines can be very substantial, and can easily exceed $3,500 between the fines, court costs, and payments to the Virginia Alcohol Safety Awareness Program. Then there is the mandatory driver's license revocation for one year, and the prospect of tripled auto insurance premiums under the SR-22 driver risk category. If you happened to provide a breathalyzer sample indicating a blood alcohol concentration .15 percent or higher, you are also looking at mandatory jail time.

Our DUI defense attorneys examine your case carefully for weaknesses of both procedure and proof. We can challenge the circumstances of your traffic stop, the operation of a checkpoint, a field sobriety test, or your arrest for driving under the influence. Whenever possible, we can also attack the evidence of driving while intoxicated by submitting your blood alcohol sample for expert forensic analysis. Whether or not your case is suitable for trial, we can accomplish a great deal to protect you from the worst consequences of a DUI conviction.

For example, we can help you obtain a restricted permit even after your license has been revoked if we can represent you soon enough. For licensed professionals such as physicians, nurses, lawyers, or teachers, we can help protect you from disciplinary action that your licensing board might bring against you. And for university students at schools such as UVA, VMI, VCU, the University of Richmond, Hampton, Virginia State, or Old Dominion, we can handle your case with an eye toward minimizing the damage to your current academic standing or your future professional prospects. For drivers under 21, a blood alcohol concentration of just .02 percent will support a DWI conviction.

In felony DUI cases, we approach your defense the same way we would with any other serious criminal offense. We concentrate on reducing or eliminating the worst charges as early in the case as possible while preparing your defense for the most effective presentation possible at trial.

To learn more about the scope of our client service in DUI defense, contact a criminal trial attorney at Cravens & Noll in Richmond for a free initial consultation.