Iowa DUI Lawyer: You got this

Today is Christmas. For many it is a celebration of family, faith, good will, tradition, and the fruits of a year’s long labor. For more than you may think, it punctuates absence, loss, and the perception of failure. For some in the latter category, the bottom of a bottle has been a poor but omnipresent solace. For others, the celebration perhaps just got a little out of hand. Now you're facing criminal prosecution for Operating While Intoxicated, in violation of Iowa Code Sec. 321J.2, called OWI in Iowa, but is known more commonly as DUI in other States.

As an Iowa DUI lawyer, I have represented all stripes of life throughout a career spanning more than two decades. In that time, I have seen people charged with Iowa criminal offenses at their best and their worst. It may surprise you to know that I have seen most at their best after I have seen them at their worst.

Whether suffering from a fractured family dynamic or other traumatic aftermath exacerbated by criminal prosecution, my clients one by one picked up, dusted off, put together their to-do list and squared themselves away. I have never been prouder of my clients than I am today.

A client once told me after getting arrested for DUI around the holidays that she felt like one of the toys on the Island of Misfits from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I told her to wear it like a badge of honor. Some people know the pain of a rock bottom loss. Many of my clients have a PhD in it and I respect them more for their perseverance in its presence. The lyrics from Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life, say it best: “you're ridin' high in April, shot down in May, but I know I'm gonna change that tune. When I'm back on top, back on top in June.”

If you’re reading this, you’ve got some work to do and we’d like to do that work together with you to get you back up and on the road with a temporary restricted license. Today is a pause but it’s not the end. Get back up. Next year at this time, this criminal prosecution for Operating While Intoxicated will be behind you and you can start a new year differently. We want to help  you do that.