San Diego Dui Lawyer Discusses Proposed Changes To Dui Laws.

SAN DIEGO (Nov. ten, 2009) Proposals by two San Francisco Bay Place legislators that would impose even harsher penalties against repeat drunken-driving offenders would be overkill, prominent regional lawyer Kerry Steigerwalt, proprietor of Pacific Law Center, told a tv audience right now.

In an interview broadcast on KNSD, Channel seven/39, Steigerwalt mentioned the criminal justice technique and the state Division of Motor Cars previously have measures in Location to adequately punish repeat offenders.

Steigerwalt was interviewed by KNSD reporter Gene Cubbison in the fallout of a hugely publicized situation in Northern California in which a Burlingame guy even now had a valid drivers license when he was charged with his ninth DUI offense just lately.

State Senators Leland Yee and Jerry Hill told the San Mateo County Instances that far more laws are essential to immediately strip many offenders of their licenses.

Steigerwalt told Cubbison that California previously has some of the strictest laws in the nation against repeat offenders and that judges and the DMV currently can strip a repeat offender of their license for from 3 many years to daily life.

There are adequate parameters in Area inside of which to tackle the dilemma with no finding into a 3-Strikes situation, mentioned Steigerwalt.

Steigerwalt, who has over 3 decades of criminal defense knowledge in San Diego County ranging from drunken driving to death penalty situations, stated any new laws would be, at finest, duplicative.

There would be constitutional challenges that would possibly prevail, he stated. Why must we commit this time imposing one more law over one that currently exists?