Christopher Combs and Steven Waterkotte of Combs Waterkotte discuss if a DWI or DUI can be expunged from your criminal record.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: Can you plea bargain a DUI case?
Chris Combs: Of course. Go ahead, Steve.
Steve Waterkotte: Yeah, and just like any other criminal case, it’s no different.
After we get the police reports, which we’re entitled to do in every case, we review police reports, dash cam videos. Many times we’ll go to the scene of the location where it occurred.
After we do our investigation, we sit down with our client. After all that occurs, then we’re sitting down with a prosecutor, calling a prosecutor, meeting a prosecutor, and we’re pointing out various flaws in the officer’s investigation and arrest.
That’s I think what separates – we touched on this earlier – folks and attorneys that do this every day, and this is their practice and their specialty area, versus folks that just dabble in this area.
Absolutely you can plea bargain and negotiate. And that’s incumbent on us as the attorney for our client to point out the weaknesses of the officer’s investigation and arrest. And that’s how we often get better deals or reduced deals on DWI cases.
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