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If I Was Visiting Colorado and Got a DUI, What Do I Do?
A DUI Criminal Defense Attorney Explains What to Do If You Get a DUI in Colorado
After you get pulled over for driving under the influence (DUI), you need to act quickly. Whether you have been accused of drinking and driving or a marijuana DUI, if you don’t act immediately, you could have a warrant issued for your arrest or lose your driver’s license. This means you need to speak to a criminal defense attorney quickly, and it should be a Colorado lawyer. The reason you cannot use an attorney from your home state is because the lawyer who represents you must be licensed to practice law in Colorado. In this video, DUI defense attorney Jake Johnson talks about what you can expect and what you should do if you get a DUI while you are visiting Colorado.
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Well anybody who’s been charged with a marijuana DUI at the very least should come in and have a consultation. We can look at your blood test results, we can talk to you about how long you’ve used marijuana, how often you use marijuana and from there we can start talking about how viable of a defense you might have. You come into Colorado for one reason or another and you find out, you find yourself being prosecuted for DUI. You’re going to have to have a Colorado lawyer. If you’re from some other state you’re not going to be able to hire an attorney from your home state to come here unless they happen to be licensed in Colorado. We see it all the time, people come in to ski, maybe they enjoy a beer, maybe they enjoy some marijuana. They’re driving back to their hotel, they get pulled over and then they had to leave the next day. Well, you have to take care of it and you have to take care of it, number one, because there will be a warrant put out for your arrest if you don’t, there’s also going to be ramifications on your driver’s license. Colorado will tell your home state that you have a DUI here and so it could suspend your driver’s license in your home state as well.