Grand Junction DUI Defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters

Charge: Three counts of Vehicular Assault, Driving under the Influence of Drugs and Careless driving.

Colorado DUI defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters’ client was accused of driving under the influence of Schedule II and Schedule III Controlled Substances when the client went into oncoming traffic and collided head on with another vehicle. All three occupants of the other vehicle including an 18 month old child, suffered serious bodily injury.

Issues: Whether or not the client was under the influence or impaired by the drugs found in his system. Other issues included whether road conditions and weather contributed to or caused the accident.

Strategy: Colorado DUI defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters attacked the police investigation and blood evidence.

Outcome: Attorney Peters’ client ended up receiving a Deferred Judgment and Sentence to one count of Reckless driving causing injury (Vehicular Assault as a lesser charge) and did not receive any jail time. The client received Useful Public Service and supervision only.

Charge: Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs, Resisting Arrest, Obstructing a Peace Officer, Possession of Marijuana and Drug Paraphernalia.

Colorado DUI defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters’ client was a 20 year old female. Officers were responding to an alleged fight and possible gunshot. Police contacted Attorney Peters’ client while she was driving away from an apartment building. Police claimed that Attorney Peters’ client allegedly ran from them, resisted arrest and refused any type of chemical test.

Issues: Whether or not police had reasonable suspicion or probable cause to contact the client. At DMV hearing the issue was whether or not the client’s actions of resisting arrest constituted a refusal to take a chemical test.

Strategy: Colorado drunk driving defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters aggressively represented this client at a motions hearing. The judge suppressed all the evidence. The court found that the police violated the client’s 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment rights.

Outcome: The case was dismissed. At the DMV hearing, the Hearing Officer found that the client’s actions did not constitute a refusal to submit to a chemical test and dismissed the action. The client never lost her driver’s license.

Charge: Speeding and driving under the influence of Drugs and Alcohol.

Colorado drunk driving defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters’ client had left a local bar after consuming one beer. The Police Officer alleged that she was speeding.

Issues: When stopped, the client had been truthful with the officer and had told him she had consumed one beer. Officer claimed Colorado DUI defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters’ client was intoxicated. The officer had the client perform roadside sobriety maneuvers which the officer claimed she failed. The officer arrested Colorado drunk driving defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters’ client and she performed a breath test. The results of the breath test were well under the legal limit and consistent with consuming one beer. The officer then accused client of being under the influence of drugs. He required her to give a urine sample and charged her with Driving under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol.

Strategy: I attacked the officer’s training and administration of the field sobriety maneuvers. I further attacked the results of urine sample provided by client.

Outcome: The charges of Driving under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol were completely dismissed by the District Attorney’s Office. Client never lost her driving privilege.

Charge: Colorado criminal defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters’ client was charged with Theft of $15,000.00 or more, a Class 3 Felony.

Client was accused of stealing $88,000.00 from a bank in Clifton, Colorado. At first, the Police claimed Attorney Peters’ client was involved in a bank robbery that had taken place a local bank. The police believed the client was the pick up guy for a bag full of money which the bank manager left outside the bank after receiving a bomb threat and threat against his family by an unknown caller.

Issues: First Colorado criminal defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters convinced the police and the district attorney that the client was not involved in the actual bank robbery and just happened to find the bag full of money lying outside the bank. Despite this, the Police still argued that the client committed the crime of Theft by picking up the bag and keeping the $88,000.00 inside it.

Strategy: Colorado criminal defense Attorney Peters argued that from the client’s perspective, the money was abandoned, he didn’t know who the owner of the money was, and therefore he had no duty to return it to the bank or to the police.

Outcome: The case proceeded to a Jury Trial. After four days, a jury of twelve people could not come to a decision. Nine of the jurors believed my client was not guilty of a crime. Three jurors believed that my client committed a theft. The jury hung and it was declared a mistrial. The District Attorney’s Office never re-tried the case.

Charge: Felony Criminal Trespass of an Auto and Theft.

Police accused Colorado criminal defense lawyer Andrew J. Peters’ client of allegedly breaking into a jeep and stealing a speaker box from the jeep.

Issues: The main issue was the poor investigation of the police and lack of follow up on other potential suspects.

Strategy: Colorado criminal defense Attorney Andrew J. Peters attacked the sufficiency of the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Outcome: The case proceeded to a Jury Trial. A Jury of twelve people acquitted the client after only 15 minutes of deliberation.