DWI/DUI Attorney in Royal Oak, Michigan

What are the biggest challenges you face in OWI cases?

Royal Oak, MI criminal defense lawyer Samuel J. Bennett talks about the biggest challenges of handling OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) cases.

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I think the biggest challenges that we
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face are are getting our clients to
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understand the the system and how it
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works my plan is always to get a client
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and alcohol assessment immediately even
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before court so that there’s two things
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that could do that could either prove
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that there is not an alcohol problem and
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this was truly a one-time incident or it
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could show that alcohol has been a
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problem for a little bit longer and has
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dramatically or even just a little bit
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of impacted someone’s life and they
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could be in some sort of denial and that
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is the biggest challenge is getting
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people to understand that I’m sending
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them for an evaluation to help them not
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to make them look like they have an
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alcohol problem a lot of people will ask
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well doesn’t that make me look like an
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alcoholic and I have to explain that no
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it’s not what it is is to make sure that
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everyone understands if you have an
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issue with alcohol what to do to help
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and if you don’t have one then you do
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some educational courses as opposed to
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some inpatient or serious outpatient
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rehabilitation

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