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DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
What you can tell your clients.
Benson VargheseVarghese & Smith, PLLC
420 Throckmorton, Suite 200Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) [email protected]
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CONVICTION RATES IN DWI
• Tarrant County
20112012
2013
0
20
40
60
80
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JURY TRIALS (2012)
72%
28%
Guilty Not Guilty
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NOT GUILTY VERDICTS
74%
20%6%
Total Refusals Breath Blood
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TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
• TDRPC 1.02 (c)
• …shall not assist …to engage in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent.
• A lawyer may discuss the legal consequences of any proposed course of conduct …
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• Preamble 5:
• As a member of a learned profession, a lawyer should cultivate knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients, employ that knowledge in reform of the law and work to strengthen legal education.
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE PULLED OVER
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Benson VargheseVarghese & Smith, PLLC
420 Throckmorton, Suite 200Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) [email protected]