Providing Criminal Defense in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Habitual Traffic Offenders

In the State of Florida, a person’s driver’s license can be suspended for numerous different reasons. Suspensions can occur for unpaid fines, failure to appear in Court, the lack of payment of child support, for insurance reasons, for specific offenses including DUI, Vehicular Homicide and Drug offenses, the accumulation of too many points from traffic infractions, and for a person being designated as an Habitual Traffic Offender. For many years, a person who has been arrested for driving in violation of the Habitual Traffic Offender law has been treated quite seriously in County Court. However, in recent statutory changes, drivers charged with Habitual Offender revocations can now be arrested and charged with a third degree felony. Therefore, a person charged with violating this statute now faces a serious felony offense punishable by up to five years in State prison or a fine of $5,000.00. The Florida Legislature has also made these offenses worse by adding specific statutory aggravated factors and circumstances. For example, driving in violation of an Habitual Traffic Suspension and causing an accident which results in death or serious bodily injury is now even more serious of an offense. Likewise, a person caught driving recklessly combined with a suspension charge will have his punishment increased in severity. All State Attorneys throughout the State of Florida take these offenses quite seriously and aggressively prosecute all of them. This law firm uses years of experience representing clients with these traffic and license problems. Furthermore, this firm makes all attempts to have removed the suspension in total. This firm will carefully investigate and review all of the client’s past driving offenses in an attempt to determine whether or not the Habitual Traffic Offender status should have ever been placed onto a client’s driving history. In many cases, but not all, this firm has been successful in helping those facing these serious penalties and has had further success in assisting clients in this experience with a reinstated driver’s license. Please feel free to make an appointment to visit our firm to see exactly what a review of your driving history and pending criminal charges can result with.

Driving Under Suspended License

The State of Florida has seen fit to attach numerous penalties to a person’s privilege to drive an automobile through this State. A person may have their driving privilege suspended and/or revoked for a multitude of reasons, including, but not limited to, failure to pay a traffic fine, failure to appear in Court, specific charges such as D.U.I., Vehicular Homicide and Drug offenses, failure to pay child support, point suspensions accumulated for traffic infractions, Habitual Traffic Offender status and/or automobile insurance reasons. Each of these different suspensions requires a thorough investigation into the underlying reasons for the client’s suspension. This firm, through the use of its years of experience, will first attempt to determine the lawfulness of the reason for the suspension. Clearly, if the suspension was illegally entered onto the driving record and can be rectified through this firm’s representation, the resulting charge is usually easily disposed of favorably to the client. Considering some of the different reasons for suspensions, the client may be eligible to attempt to obtain restricted driving privileges. This firm again assists clients for each of these different suspension issues in attempting to assist the client through the legal maze to be able to accomplish lawful driving again. Please feel free to contact this office to make an appointment to see exactly how our representation may assist you again in defending your charges and hopefully in renewing your lawful driving privileges.