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Who is the best DUI Defense Attorney in Fresno

Who is the Best DUI Attorney in Fresno?

This is a question many people facing DUI charges in the Fresno jurisdiction want to know.  There are different ways of evaluating who is the best DUI attorney in Fresno. 

Results:  What results does the attorney get for their clients?  Even within this category, there are different types of results.  Most cases settle in some manner without a trial.  Would you evaluate the results based upon trial results or settlement results.  If your case is one where your are looking for a great resolution without the risk, time consumption, and costs of a trial, then you would evaluate who the best DUI Attorney is based upon settlement and negotiation results.  If you believe it is a trial case, and it is either win or lose, then you would evaluate the attorneys based on past performance in trial.

Education:  In order to mount a technical science based defense to a DUI accusation, a lawyer should understand the defense themselves.  This is dependent upon their level of education on the topics involved in the case.  There may be a "margin of error" defense which used errors in the

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method the breath analysis is dependent upon, such as breath temperature, inaccuracies during absorption stage, or hematocrit variations between humans or several other factors that could be present such as the non-specific nature of the fuel cell device as to ethanol alcohol or other substances.  Many attorneys neither understand these concepts, nor have they gained the vocabulary necessary to properly question their own expert, or cross-examine the states expert. Jonathan is perhaps the most educated DUI Defense Attorney in valley on these subjects, having completed the M.S. in Forensic Toxicology, ACS-CHAL Lawyer Scientist (6th one in California), and numerous other academic accomplishments that also allow him to testify as an expert in DUI cases.

Case Specific Knowledge:  This can include knowledge of toxicology when narcotics or prescription drugs are the alleged source of impairment.  There can be issues identifying the substance that can be brought to light.  Jonathan has experience with Mass Spectrometry and the libraries that may be utilized to match a substance with its known mass spectra profile.  Other issues include blood testing for ethanol by gas chromatography.  There are various methods, including dual column, single column, head space, direct inject, carrier gas, internal standards that vary between labs.  Understanding the method the lab utilizes, and identifying areas of concern is highly specialized.  Jonathan has attended Axion Labs courses on exactly this subject as part of his American Chemical Society Chemistry and Law Division Lawyer-Scientist designation, (List of ACS-CHAL Lawyer-Scientist in the Nation) and can identify areas of concern.

These are the key factors in determining who the best DUI Attorney in Fresno is, but not the only factors.

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