Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Ability Impaired

What are DUI and DWAI?

“Driving under the influence” means driving a motor vehicle or vehicle when a person has consumed alcohol or one or more drugs, or a combination of alcohol and one or more drugs, that affects the person to a degree that the person is substantially incapable, either mentally or physically, or both mentally and physically, to exercise clear judgment, sufficient physical control, or due care in the safe operation of a vehicle.

“Driving while ability impaired” means driving a motor vehicle or vehicle when a person has consumed alcohol or one or more drugs, or a combination of both alcohol and one or more drugs, that affects the person to the slightest degree so that the person is less able than the person ordinarily would have been, either mentally or physically, or both mentally and physically, to exercise clear judgment, sufficient physical control, or due care in the safe operation of a vehicle.

What you need to know

DUI and DWAI carry serious penalties, including loss of your driver's license, fines, probation, jail, and possibly prison time. A prosecuting attorney needs only to prove that you were impaired "to the slightest degree" in order for you to be convicted of a DWAI. That is why you need an experienced DUI attorney representing you in your impaired driving case.

Tyler Jolly has extensive knowledge of the NHTSA roadside sobriety manuals (used to train police in investigating DUI/DWAI cases), chemical blood and breath testing, Constitutional Law, marijuana and controlled substance impairment, and has litigated more than 150 DUI/DWAI cases. Let Jolly Law's experience help you navigate you driving under the influence or driving while ability impaired case.