10. Police Reports
The Sonoma County court and the Santa Rosa DMV process are primarily fueled by the police report. A careful, detailed examination of Sonoma County police reports can often reveal numerous errors and/or omissions. Click here to see the most commonly used DUI police forms, titled the DS367 Age 21 And Older Officer's Statement and the CHP 202 Driving Under The Influence Arrest - Investigation Report.
Some errors and omissions are not legally significant, but others can be fatal to the government's case against you, especially at the Santa Rosa DMV where documents usually are the only evidence considered. If an important signature is missing at a critical place on a form, and the Santa Rosa and San Francisco DMV driver safety offices do not catch this error or omission in time to subpoena the responsible party to "fix" it at the local Santa Rosa hearing, then your Sonoma County DUI lawyer may be able to win your DMV case. Even numerous minor errors may allow Santa Rosa DUI attorneys to call into question the reliability and credibility of the officer who made the DUI arrest.