CRIMINAL DEFENCE AND DUI LAWYER IN ONTARIO
Represents People arrested for DUI and Drunk Driving Offences in Windsor and Throughout the Province of Ontario.
Enzo DiGioia has devoted his career to providing skilled representation for people charged with drinking and driving offences. He handles all aspects of DUI cases in Windsor and throughout Ontario.
Ontario law provides severe penalties for a DUI conviction, including jail, driver's license suspension, ignition interlock and finds. If you have been arrested for DUI, it is important that you retain a lawyer skilled and experienced with impaired driving cases.
Enzo DiGioia is certified as an operator of the Intoxilyzer 5000 and Intoxilyzer 8000 units. These Intoxilyzer units are used by police to estimate blood-alcohol concentration and are plagued with problems. His experience as an operator gives him specialized knowledge to assess the reliability of a particular reading and to ensure proper procedures were followed during the testing sequence.
OUR DUI LAWYER CAN HELP
Enzo DiGioia represents people charged with DUI. If you have been charged with impaired driving, driving "over 80", dangerous driving, impaired driving causing death or any other alcohol-related driving offense, you should immediately contact Enzo. We invite you to contact us for a free, confidential consultation about your legal rights.
For free answers to your questions about how we can help if you have been arrested for DUI or any other criminal offence, please call us at 519-252-6969 or complete our online contact form.
When you are first pulled over under suspicion of impaired driving, you have the right to remain silent and not incriminate yourself. In other words, do not say anything including not telling the officer how much you had to drink, or when you began or finished drinking. You also do not have to perform a sobriety test such as walking a line.
You are, however, obliged to show the officer your driver's license, vehicle registration and insurance. When asked, you are also required to blow into an approved roadside screening device that tests the level of alcohol in your blood. You do not have the right to refuse the roadside test, and you must comply. At this point, the officer does not have to remind you of your right to counsel, prior to requesting the roadside breath test.
If you refuse to take the roadside test, you'll be charged with a criminal offence, and it will be up to the trial judge to determine whether you had a reasonable excuse for refusing.
The legal limit is 80 mgs. If you blow over this limit, the officer has the right to transport you to the police station to administer a breathalyzer or intoxilyzer test for a more accurate reading.
You have a right to know why you're being detained at the police station and they must explain your right to contact a lawyer prior to requesting a breathalyzer or intoxilyzer test from you. If you blow over 80 mgs at the police station, you will be charged with "over 80". If you blow under 80 mgs., you may be charged with impaired driving.
If you refuse to take the breath test at the police station, or if you fake a blow into the machine, you will be charged with refusing or failing to comply with a breath demand, or failure to provide a breath sample.
OUR IMPAIRED DRIVING LAWYER CAN HELP
Enzo DiGioia represents people charged with impaired driving. If you have been charged with impaired driving, driving "over 80", dangerous driving, impaired driving causing death or any other alcohol-related driving offense, you should immediately contact Enzo. We invite you to contact us for a free, confidential consultation about your legal rights.
For free answers to your questions about how we can help if you have been arrested for DUI, please call us at 519-252-6969 or complete our online contact form.
Under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, if you are pulled over with a blood level between 50-80 mgs, your license could be suspended immediately. If your blood level is over 80 mgs, you will be arrested and charged with impaired driving.
If you are found guilty in the Province of Ontario with impaired driving, or any related conviction, you will inherit a criminal record. Your license will be suspended for a minimum of one year, and you will have to pay a minimum fine of $1,000. You must also enroll in a program called "Back on Track" at a cost of $475 plus HST. This program can take another ten months to complete. This is in addition to the year-long license suspension. You must then pay another $150 to reinstate your license.
This conviction stays on your record for a minimum of ten years. If you're lucky to find an auto insurance company willing to insure you, your premiums will most likely triple or may even go higher than that.
If you are convicted in Ontario, you must have an ignition interlock device installed on your vehicle when your driving privileges are restored. If a certain level of alcohol is detected when you blow into the device, the car will not start. Those convicted of a first offence must use the device at a rental fee of about $100 per month. You must use the ignition interlock device for at least one year; a minimum of three years for a second offence, and a driver with more than two convictions must have the device installed permanently. Consecutive convictions will result in much longer suspensions and jail time.
The most devastating cost, however, is the criminal record. This record will follow you when you attempt to travel or seek employment, and the shame, the embarrassment and the stigma that result from this kind of conviction will never go away.
If you are a fully licensed driver aged 21 and under, or a novice driver caught with any amount of alcohol in your blood, you will receive an immediate 24-hour roadside drivers license suspension and will fact a 30-day license suspension, or cancellation of your license, and a fine of $60-$500.
OUR IMPAIRED DRIVING LAWYER CAN HELP
Enzo DiGioia represents people charged with impaired driving. If you have been charged with impaired driving, driving "over 80", dangerous driving, impaired driving causing death or any other alcohol-related driving offense, you should immediately contact Enzo. We invite you to contact us for a free, confidential consultation about your legal rights.
For free answers to your questions about how we can help if you have been arrested for impaired driving, please call us at 519-252-6969 or complete our online contact form.
You feel confident that you are sober enough to drive yourself a short distance home. After all, you have done this very thing hundreds of times before. If your friends thought you were too intoxicated to drive, they certainly would have taken your keys and called you a taxi, or would have insisted on driving you home themselves.
As you drive, you notice there is a police car behind you and the lights are flashing. A quick blast of the siren warns you to pull over. Your heart pounds as you slow to a stop. An officer walks over to your car and instructs you to roll down your window and turn off your engine. You hand the officer your license, registration and proof of insurance. The officer asks you the inevitable question; "have you consumed any alcohol this evening?" You admit that you have had a couple of glasses of wine, but you insist, "just two".
The officer instructs you to step out of the car, and asks you to perform a serious of roadside sobriety tests. Finally, the officer instructs you to blow into a machine. Within minutes, you are sitting in the back of the police car and on your way to the police station. You are scared, alone, and wonder if you are being treated fairly. Are your rights being violated?
An experience impaired driving lawyer will know – there are an endless list of loopholes and exceptions that when discovered, presented and argue in court, could overturn many charges. These cases are winnable only when you hire an experienced and specialized impaired driving lawyer.
OUR IMPAIRED DRIVING LAWYER CAN HELP
Enzo DiGioia represents people charged with impaired driving, driving "over 80", dangerous driving, impaired driving causing death or any other alcohol-related driving offense, you should immediately contact Enzo. We invite you to contact us for a free, confidential consultation about your legal rights.
For free answers to your questions about how we can help if you have been arrested for impaired driving, please call us at 519-252-6969 or complete our online contact form.
