How To Deal With Insurance Adjusters

July 17th, 2009 at 07:05am Under Insurance Law

The insurance adjuster is asking me for information and wants to meet, why?

Plant Quinn Thiele LLP – Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyers

Think meeting the insurance adjuster wihout a lawyer is a good idea?  Think again.  Why do they want to meet?

It is the insurance adjuster’s job to find ways to reduce your case or get rid of it entirely. The more documents they have the more chances they will find something to hang their hat on to deny or reduce your claim.

Insurance adjusters much prefer dealing with injured persons who don’t have a lawyer. Why do you think they call you the same or day after you are injured? They want to get to you before you know your rights and interests and BEFORE you speak to a lawyer who can offer guidance to you in relation to your rights and the claims process. They want to control the file, and more importantly, control the evidence. They are not your lawyer and have no duty to you. Their business card says “Adjuster” for the insurer, not lawyer for you. They represent the opposing party’s insurer, not you! Their job is not to give you legal advice, but to investigate the accident. Adjusters know how to manipulate you. The moment you retain an experienced PQTLaw personal injury lawyer, that manipulation stops.

Don’t believe us? Try this. When the adjuster calls to meet with you and obtain a written statement and authorization to obtain information from your doctors and your employer, ask them if you can meet with the owner of the property where you fell or the driver that hit you so you can ask them questions and obtain a written statement. The answer will be – are you crazy? No way. It’s a one way street.

The less an adjuster pays on a claim, the better for their career.  Insurers make millions and millions of dollars in profit every year. They are corporations who’s primary focus is profit, profit and profit. The longer you don’t know your rights and interests, the more serious damage can be done to your claim.  Insurance adjusters receive training and have experience in assessing and investigating claims.

Our experience is that by the time the insurance adjuster is willing to make an offer to settle your claim, given the admissions you may have made, they offer pennies on the dollar.

Why? You dug your own grave – you provided the insurer with a written statement or recorded statement – you provided the insurer with access to all your records, medical, financial or etc – you took no steps to preserve your evidence – you took no steps to obtain your own witness statements – you took no steps to obtain a lawyer to know your rights, interests and risks – and so on… Your case has been destroyed. By the time an offer is made, if one is even made, the insurance adjuster has potentially harmful documents, information and tons of reasons to justify making no offer or making a ridiculously low offer.

Call us at 613-563-1131, Marc-Nicholas Quinn, Plant Quinn Thiele, LLP – OttawaPersonal Injury Lawyers

www.pqtlaw.com   — mquinn@pqtlaw.com

 

Marc-Nicholas Quinn is the founding partner of Plant Quinn Thiele LLP – Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyers, he focuses on personal injury law and the rights of injured persons in Ontario, Canada. See us at www.pqtlaw.com.

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Federal Tax Law – An Insight

July 17th, 2009 at 06:18am Under Adoption Law

Federal tax laws, though seemingly complicated, are important for each and every person as we pay these taxes every year. By understanding these complex federal tax laws, we can economize our money in the time of filing taxes. Presuming that majority of the people have a good knowledge on tax filing, we move directly into the federal tax laws. There are certain events in our lives which can change the tax circumstances in the year which they occur. These events which are not usual are not taken into account during the tax season, though knowledge about these events proves handy.
*Child adoption- By incurring the qualifying expenses related to child adoption, you can qualify a tax credit concordant with laws of federal tax. Though it is not a deduction, it serves as a credit reducing the bottom line taxes that are to be paid.
In concise the person who has adopted a child is eligible for reimbursing the expenses though a research into the actual details provides more details about this credit.
*payment for education – The tuition fees that is paid to the colleges or the expenses occurring in college are eligible for a deduction in tax according to the federal tax laws. The two types of deductions in the education category are “hope credit” and the “lifetime learning credit”. Inquire more details about these two types to suit your particular tax situations.
*losing of jobs-In accordance with the federal tax laws, any amount of money that is received as a severance package or other monetary benefits that is collected due to unemployment, is taxed. However, the expenses that are incurred in searching jobs are eligible for reduction of tax payment. For instance, the money that is paid to employment agencies and outplacement services in the form of resume preparation are deductible. Furthermore, the money spent for fueling the vehicles to attend job interviews are also tax deductible.
*New jobs and new homes-if you have taken up a new job, you are eligible for tax deduction. These expenses depend on the distance that you move from your current home and the time duration of the house shifting. Nonetheless, if your employer reimburses your house shifting expenses these expenses become ineligible for tax evasion.
*victim of disaster-special priorities are given to disaster victims. These are given to those whose place has been announced as a national disaster area by the president. The incentives include additional time for filing the tax returns and tax deduction for the expenses spent on losses that occurred during the disaster.

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Top 10 Reasons to Hire an Immigration Attorney

July 17th, 2009 at 04:39am Under Immigration Law

Immigration laws are constantly changing and can be confusing to negotiate all of the legal hurdles to accomplish your goals. Individuals, families and employers are constantly seeking solutions to the ever-changing and confusion immigration legal system. Hiring the right immigration attorney can help ease the pain of the process, simplify the system and achieve the best results for you, your company or family.

How Can an Immigration Lawyer Help You?

1. Analyze the facts of your case thoroughly

2. Explain all the options for which you may be eligible

3. Recommend the best ways for you to obtain legal status

4. Complete and submit your applications properly

5. Stay current on the new laws that affect you

6. Avoid delays and problems with your case whenever possible

7. Discuss the status of your case with you

8. Speak for you in discussions with the Department of Homeland Security or represent you in court

9. File necessary appeals and waivers

10. Utilize the system to your advantage because he or she has the experience to do so

Finding and retaining the right immigration attorney may be the right solution for you. If you do decide to hire an immigration attorney, and follow the checklist above, your dealings with the various government agencies and courts will go much more smoothly.

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• Root Law Group exclusively practices business and family immigration law.

• Root Law Group offers quick turnaround time (most petitions are prepared within 10 working days).

• Most of our business comes from referrals from former or existing clients.

• Root Law Group offers state-of-the-art case management software that enables you to access and check the status of your case online.

• Offices of Root Law Group are conveniently located in both the Los Angeles and Orange counties.

• Root Law Group offers you direct communication with an attorney or a senior paralegal and a four business hour response time to your inquiries.

• Root Law Group’s experienced staff is well versed in the preparation of all immigrant and Nonimmigrant Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) petitions, as well as PERM labor certifications.

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Texas Family Law

July 17th, 2009 at 04:38am Under Family Law

I’ve heard some real horror stories about Houston’s infamous family law court so I am not surprised that a state appeals court Thursday said authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group’s compound last month. Unfortunately Texas family law courts seem to think they own the children.

The Third Court of Appeals in Austin said the state failed to show the youngsters were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court action.

It was not clear when the children — now scattered in foster homes across the state — might be returned to their parents. The ruling gave a lower-court judge 10 days to release the youngsters from custody, but the state could appeal to the Texas Supreme Court and block that. Who has ever heard of rounding up 400+ kids, separating them from their mother and dividing them up across the state to various entities.

Every child at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado was taken into custody more than six weeks ago after someone called a hot line claiming to be a pregnant, abused teenage wife. The girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the calls were a hoax.

A HOAX! The state kidnapped 400+ kids, traumatized them, and usurped the mother’s rights based on an unsupported claim. If it happened to them, it can happen to anyone!

Child-protection officials argued that five girls at the ranch had become pregnant at 15 and 16 and that the sect pushed underage girls into marriage and sex with older men and groomed boys to enter into such unions when they grew up. How about the weird concept of “presumed innocence”. Is that still a vaild point of law in America- or Texas?

Is judicial illegality better than polygamy?

More specifically, the court said, “Even if one views the FLDS belief system as creating a danger of sexual abuse by grooming boys to be perpetrators of sexual abuse and raising girls to be victims of sexual abuse … there is no evidence that this danger is ‘immediate’ or ‘urgent’,” the court said. “Evidence that children raised in this particular environment may someday have their physical health and safety threatened is not evidence that the danger is imminent enough to warrant invoking the extreme measure of immediate removal.”

And the measures were extreme- beyond EXTREME! Can you say INSANE?

As a spiritual-futurist my commentaries and articles deal primarily with an interpretation of current events in light of macro-universal forces at play, particularly leading up to 2012.

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Feldman Law Center – The Four Road Blocks That are Slowing Loan Modifications

July 17th, 2009 at 04:38am Under Estates Law

Hope and optimism emanating from the announcement of the Obama Administration’s “Making Home Affordable” plan have been replaced by the cold reality that the program has gotten off to start deemed by industry watchers as “anemic”. After almost four months since President Obama first announced the $75 billion mortgage rescue effort, the administration continues to tweak the program in an attempt to reach its originally stated objective of saving up to 5 million homeowners from foreclosure. Standing between the anemic start and lofty goals of the program are four roadblocks:

1) Overloaded loan modification processors – While the specifics of the plan were released in the first week of March, lenders couldn’t start handling applications until systems were re-programmed and processors were brought up to speed, which took an additional four to six weeks. Processors were immediately buried with stacks of applications that had been accumulating during the conversion to the new guidelines. Participants in the process report that servicers are still digging out from the initial rush as applications continue to flood their desks. Troubled borrowers, many backed up against the possibility of foreclosure, have become increasingly frustrated to the point where they have abandoned the process to retain their own legal assistance.  JP Morgan Chase spokesman Tom Kelly recently said of the ramp-up, “It’s an enormous task. We’re moving quickly, although not as quickly as an individual might wish.”

2) Investors – The massive sums of money that supported the real estate/mortgage boom came from investors on Wall Street, pensions, and other institutions. Servicers say those investors are now balking at some of the terms being presented when a loan needs to be modified. The net present value test, a little known aspect of the plan, allows for a calculation to determine whether the greater return for investors will be achieved via modification or foreclosure. In the modification versus foreclosure decision, investors have been threatening lawsuits against servicers when the servicers are deemed to not be acting in the best interests of their investors. The threatened legal action adds another layer to the home loan modification process and can draw out the approval process even more. The “safe harbor” bill recently passed by Congress was intended to alleviate that logjam by protecting servicers from investor lawsuits but it’s likely that lawsuits will arrive on the servicers doorsteps anyway, safe harbor or not.

3) Lenders – Lenders are caught in a three sided bind between the above mentioned borrowers/investors and their own capital structure. No longer required to mark their loans to market, they can carry the value of the loans in their own portfolios at values they can rationalize, whether factual or not. Loan modifications could generate reviews of portfolio values, and nobody wants to go there in the current environment.

4) Unemployment – According to John Taylor, head of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, “Unemployment is becoming a bigger factor than almost anything.” When sub-prime mortgages started blowing up it was attributed to the risks inherent in lending to lower quality borrowers. Increasing unemployment, in addition to taking down the lower quality borrowers, is now hitting prime mortgages. In fact, primes are now going into default at a much faster rate than sub-primes as previously solid borrowers are now being affected by the contracting economy.

Of the four roadblocks, the toughest barrier is unemployment due to the fact that, regardless of credit scores, if a homeowner doesn’t have a job a loan modification isn’t going to help. Short sales, cash for keys, or foreclosure become the next options. At that point every side of the three sided bind ends up on the losing end.

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Can Law Of Attraction Help You Lose Or Gain Weight?

July 17th, 2009 at 04:19am Under Entertainment Law

Most readers would probably have heard or read Napoleon Hill’s highly acclaimed “Think And Grow Rich”. Many people have also claimed that the book changed their way thinking and have seen their personal wealth grow.
Now then, if people can think and grow rich, then can people think and grow thin and slim? Can thinking to be thin help you to lose weight or thinking fat help you gain weight?
Since the released of Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” DVD and book, the Law of Attraction or LOA for short, which is the essence of her work has swept the world by storm arousing much renewed interest in metaphysical science and new age spiritual thinking.
If you are not familiar with the law of attraction, then simple definition of the law of attraction is that you attract to you what are in your dominant thoughts and what you are focused on.
In other words, you get what you think and focused on. Of course there are more to it than just merely wishful thinking and if you want to know more, the internet is full of websites on the application of law of attraction.
Experts and teachers of the law of attraction such as Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and some others who appeared in “The Secret” explained that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveal why the “law of attraction” works regardless of whether you look at the theory from a metaphysical or a scientific point of view in a Larry King show in 2007.
Scientists have long known that your subconscious is completely neutral and impartial and it will carry out any instructions you give it by your conscious or logical mind. That means that you can use the law of attraction to attract love, to lose or gain weight, attract wealth, quit smoking or whatever you desire. To skeptics, this sounds too good to be true but to believers, there are too many anecdotal evidence that the law of attraction works without any exception is difficult to ignore.
Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our subconscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we have developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.
Yes, many of you may say to me that you have been thinking of losing weight, but is still getting fatter. You see, when you are thinking of losing weight, you are using your conscious mind, but what is your subconscious mind thinking? Here are some examples :-
a) I am fat, therefore I need to lose weight – This thinking cancels out each other. Yes, you want to lose weight, but you are also thinking about being fat. The law of attraction does not react to whether you want it or do not want it, it just delivers to you what you are thinking and focused on and in this instance, you are thinking about being fat as well as losing weight.
b) My family members are fat, so I am genetically programed to be fat – I don’t need to explain this further. It is a self limiting thought and guess what? If you think that you are programed to be fat, then you are. You won’t be doing anything to change the status quo because you will think that it is useless to do so subconsciously. Simple as that.
c) I wish to be thin – Now merely wishing is not good enough, the law of attraction will just entertain your wish. You will always be wishing and wishing and wishing.
d) It is difficult to lose weight – Then you will never lose weight because it will always be difficult for you to lose weight.
So when you do not lose weight even if you have always wanted to, it could be because of your self limiting subconscious thoughts and there could even be hundreds if not thousands of negative programming in our subconscious mind not only in the subject of physical body shape but on other matters such as wealth, health, love and the list goes on.
These negative beliefs are programed into our subconscious mind and most of the time we do not even know that they are there sabotaging us. These thoughts then become our beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.
To change your end results, you need to overwrite the negative programing and instill new positive programing into your subconscious mind. If you are getting more of the same or negative results in your life such as not being able to attract more wealth, good health or the body shape you desire, then you have probably been unconsciously running old negative programs and reinforcing them with daily negative thought patterns.
There are many techniques you can use to get rid of limiting beliefs and negative thoughts such as using goal setting, affirmations and creative visualizations.
I will not describe in detail how these methods work here as books have been written on them. However, from personal experiences, the best method is to use self hypnotism to get rid of these negative programing.
You see, instead of spending a lot of money for a hypnosis therapist to help you find out your self limiting negative thoughts in your subconscious mind and re-program new positive thoughts into it, you can now do it yourself through self hypnosis sessions through CDs or MP3s.
So, how to use self hypnotism to lose weight or gain weight? Well, that is for another article or you click the link in my author’s box and read about them.

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Following Employment Laws – Why Are The Regulations Mandatory?

July 17th, 2009 at 04:11am Under Employment Law

There are a lot of laws that have been established to ensure employee safety in a workplace. The guidelines of the employment laws should be followed in everything related to work- from process of dismissals to the hiring process. From the time work environments became organized, many situations have cropped up that has led people to question the safety and benefits of workers. All this resulted in the implementation of several principals and values that protects not only the workers in question but also the employers. These laws cover many broad categories and there are a number of them, but they all work together as a valuable protective measure. Today, employment laws apply at both state and federal level.
There are many acts such as the Americans with disabilities Act which have caused the laws to be enacted. The ADA makes it punishable by law to discriminate against a person based on disability and has provisions to make companies accommodate a certain number of disables people. The Family and Medical Leave Act makes it necessary that each employee is granted twelve weeks of unpaid leave to take care of medical issues and crisis in case something of that nature comes up. There are applications to every employment law. While a federal law applies uniformly, it is not necessarily so for state laws. Being aware of the state and federal government laws is the duty of both employees and employers alike. Ignorance is not an excuse in court.
If an employment law is violated, it becomes necessary for an employee to hire an experienced legal counsel. There are so many laws covering broad categories and a number of factors affect the law’s applications. It may be required to initially get an agency to investigate the matter and provide impartial evidence of violation of a law, either on the employee’s side or on the employer’s side. Most companies, in general, prefer to arbitrate as going to a court is time consuming and costly. At other times, going to court is the only option. Finding an experienced and knowledgeable attorney is necessary no matter which law is in question.
Every employer must have state and federal employment law posters to ensure that all the employees and workers k now about these laws. These posters should be placed in an area where it can be easily read and it displays everything including the present legal wage standards and workers compensation act. It is immaterial if the state and federal posters are together or not. However it is necessary that all the information displayed is correct or the employer will be violating yet another law. Usually inspectors hand out warnings to employers who do not comply with this. In case the policy is disregarded even after the issuing of a warning, then a fine will be charged.

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Aussiecats takes on the new local cat laws in Western Australia

July 17th, 2009 at 04:11am Under Elder Law

In WA local laws are being introduced in several shires in relation to the keeping of cats. The City of Joondalup have formalised laws which will come into effect in October 2009. Other shires are testing these new laws over the next 12 months before compulsory registration of cats is enforced and the application of fines.

These laws aim to promote responsible cat ownership, welfare and safety of domestic cats and to assist in the prevention of nuisances to the community caused by cats.

Unfortunately for cat owners there is presently no avenue of disputing these laws with the individual shires nor dispute the decisions made under them. These laws have the potential to disrupt and damage relations between neighbours and encourage vigilantes to target several cats in one street just because they don’t like cats.

There are some variations in these local laws depending on which shire your suburb falls in, the main requirements are:-

1. The registration of cats may be compulsory for each cat you own or only for 3 – 6 cats.

2. All registered cats within the Shire shall be sterilized.

3. Cat owners shall ensure their cats are identified by a collar and tag with their identification details including address and telephone number of the owner or be micro-chipped with the contact information of the owner.

4. A cat shall not be in a public place unless it is under effective control; a cat shall not be in designated place specified in a schedule under the local law in particular protected flora & fauna areas. A cat shall not be on private premises where a complaint by the owner or occupier of the premises has been made to the City in relation to the cat’s unwanted presence on the property.

Penalties

Contraventions to these local laws may incur a fine as nominated by your Shire or the impoundment of your cat by an authorised person which includes a Shire Officer or the occupant/owner of a private residence. If a complaint is made by a neighbour to the Shire about your cat, the Shire Advocate or a Shire Ranger will contact you directly as to the nature of the complaint and remedies expected.

Note: you cannot be forced to fully enclose your cat currently under these local laws, only to keep your cat inside during the hours of 9pm to 6am each day.

Where an unidentified cat is impounded and not collected within 7 days of its impoundment the Shire can offer the cat for sale, cause the cat to be destroyed or cause the cat to be rehoused.

How these Local Cat Laws affect Real People…

Trapping cats and removing them from their own street and neighborhood under these new local laws is an emotional issue for the cat owner, their immediate family and for other pets in the household. Children are particularly affected when a beloved pet goes missing as are the elderly and those pet owners who have had their cats for a many years.

With the urban sprawl in Australia the advent of much smaller block sizes for home owners means we are nearer to our neighbours than ever before. Surely there has to be some realism to these new cat laws and equality & fairness for cat owners to also protect their cats and have the due process to dispute complaints.

Aussiecats.com is a new website set up for cat owners in Australia to publicly protest against these new cat laws.  Presently cat owners have no rights to dispute complaints made against their cats under these new laws nor are there any legal avenues to protect your cat being trapped by a neighbour.  Game on…

Rosemary Donald lost her cat Simon for a week under these new cat laws and found him in a local Shire Pound. He had been trapped and turned in to the pound by a neighbour. Aussicats.com was developed to give cat owners in the Australian community a voice against these new local cat laws. Rosemary is an established article writer, ebook author, and website marketing specialist. Visit www.aussiecats.com for more information and advice on these new local cat laws.

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Law Education in Sacramento, California

July 17th, 2009 at 04:09am Under Education Law

Finding the best law school in Sacramento can be a challenging process. There are many different schools offering several different programs and it may be difficult to decipher the differences between these schools and programs. It’s important to take a close look at these law schools and what they offer as far as courses, programs, degrees and guidance in career opportunities. Law Degree ProgramsWhen looking at what law courses a school offers, make sure that you see a wide variety. Take the time to read course descriptions so that you can get accustomed to how the school presents its information. The learning process is very personal to each individual and the only way to make sure your learning experience is the best possible is by making sure your personal needs are met. Different law schools are going to offer different law courses and this will help you determine which school is right for you. You may also want to consider the school’s requirements in order to complete a law degree. Requirements will vary according to the school and you may find that you feel you will get through one school’s law program easier and faster than another. Many people don’t realize that programs differ vastly and that finding the program that best fits you is one way to help guarantee a successful law education experience. Choosing the wrong law school or program can be detrimental to your learning and can lead to disappointments and failures that no one wants to face.Law career opportunities in Sacramento are another thing you will want to focus on when choosing your law school. Look up statistics on how different law schools place students in law careers. See which schools are helping to guide students to success in their careers and which ones seem to let students down in that area. You want to make sure you attend a law school that will be concerned with your success and will point you in the right direction upon graduating. Sacramento law schools can help place you in one of those positions is one that will truly result in feeling all your hard work has been paid off. Researching law schools in Sacramento before choosing one is a wise decision. The variety of law schools, programs, and courses available make it seem a bit overwhelming at first. However, by looking around and doing a bit of research you can narrow your choices and land on the one that meets your personal needs and is more likely to point you towards success in your law career.

MTI College is a Sacramento law training school that offers a wide variety of training programs, including law degree and paralegal courses.

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Dui? Sometimes, Bad Things Happen to Good People

July 17th, 2009 at 03:02am Under DUI Law

As long as there are human police officers, injustices always will occur. A

great many police officers feel they have done their job when they arrest a

person for “mere suspicion” of DUI. In some instances, the arrest may be

warranted, but sometimes it isn’t.

Although you may think that just because your Blood Alcohol Level is below

the state limit, usually 0.08%, that you’ll not be arrested for DUI. Wrong!

Actually, you can be arrested for DUI no matter what level of alcohol is in

your bloodstream. Even if you haven’t been drinking at all, if the police

officer observes anything about you that leads him to believe you may have

been drinking, he can arrest you. And then, it’s up to you to prove your

innocence.

For example, let’s say that you just finished a fine meal at your favorite

restaurant and you had a small glass of wine. An overzealous police officer

stops you for a minor traffic violation and smells alcohol on your breath.

He immediately arrests you for DUI, slaps on a set of handcuffs and hauls

you off to jail.

Once you arrive at the jail, you’re photographed and fingerprinted, then

you’re placed in a holding cell, probably along with some pretty unsavory

characters. You’ll wait there for what seems like an eternity and eventually

you’ll go before a local magistrate who will decide what happens next. He

may just assign you a court date and release you, or he may keep you locked

up until you post a cash bail. If you don’t post bail, you’ll sit in jail

until your court date.

Even when you do get out of jail, it will seem like your troubles are just

starting. As a result of your arrest, your car was towed to an impound lot

and when you go to retrieve it, you’ll be faced with paying hundreds of

dollars in towing, storage and administrative fees.

When your court date finally arrives a few weeks later, you need to be

prepared to fight your case by being knowledgeable about the DUI laws of

your state. If everything concerning your arrest wasn’t done properly,

there’s a good chance you can get the case dismissed and all charges

dropped, thereby keeping your record clean. Even if your case does proceed

to trial, your guilt must be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Again, this is

where you need to be aware of the law and what’s legally required for a

conviction.

Keep in mind that the police officer is not your friend. The judge is not

your friend. This is a money-making enterprise for them and they would

prefer to punish you as much as possible, as quickly as possible so they can

move on to the next poor soul who they’ve managed to catch in their snare.

If you don’t know your rights and speak up, they’ll just dish out your

punishment and move on to the next victim. You will have now been

rubber-stamped as a criminal and you’ll have to live with the consequences.

Author: Carson Danfield.
Don’t let this happen to you. If you’ve been falsely accused of DUI, you
absolutely need to know your rights. Visit DUI-TRIX.com to find out how you can protect yourself from an unjust
DUI arrest
.

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