DeKalb County DUI, .154 breath test; Hit and Run: DUI charges dismissed

Our client rear-ended a car while exiting the expressway in Dunwoody, GA.  He decided not to stop at the scene, but eventually stopped in Chamblee, Ga.  A Chamblee officer responded to the scene, but called in Dunwoody police to come to the scene as the Hit and Run charge occurred in Dunwoody.  A DUI investigation was conducted and our client was arrested for DUI by Dunwoody police.  He agreed to take the state-administered breath test and blew a .154 – almost twice the legal limit in Georgia.  Mr. Sullivan moved the case from Dunwoody Municipal Court to DeKalb County State Court to challenge the DeKalb DUI arrest and the admissibility of the breath test on constitutional and police jurisdiction grounds.  Mr. Sullivan was able to convince the DeKalb State Court prosecutor that the state breath test would not be admissible at trial, and without that, the rest of the prosecution’s DUI case was weak.  The DeKalb DUI charges were dismissed, and Mr. Sullivan negotiated a plea to the Hit and Run charge (which our client admitted to doing) and minor traffic offenses.  

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