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What Defenses Are Available for DUI Drugs?

What Defenses Are Available for DUI Drugs?

Answer

A defense may examine whether the person was driving, whether drugs actually impaired them, and whether any impairment coincided with the driving. The appropriate challenge depends on the facts of the individual case.

The appropriate defense in a DUI drugs case depends on the evidence. One issue is whether the accused person was actually driving.

A second issue is whether the person was impaired by drugs. A third is timing: evidence of driving at one point and impairment at another does not by itself establish they occurred together.

A DUI drugs defense should examine the connection between the alleged impairment and the driving.