Lewisville DWI Lawyer

At the Denton County Courts Building, 1450 E. McKinney Street in Denton, not in Lewisville. Misdemeanor DWIs go to the County Criminal Courts at Law, felonies to the District Courts. Our office is directly across the street, and our Denton County guide covers the building.

Yes. Every Denton County city prosecutes at the county courts building in Denton. You may sit in a city jail briefly before transfer. Wherever the stop happened, we defend it.

Your prosecutor handles intoxication cases exclusively. That means shortcuts get punished and prepared defenses get respected. We build every Denton County case for a specialist audience, starting with the defenses that actually work.

15 days from the notice of suspension to request an ALR hearing, or the suspension is automatic. Inside the window, call today. Past it, an occupational license may keep you driving.

It can. Since September 1, 2019, Texas law lets a judge grant deferred adjudication on a first DWI when your alcohol concentration was under 0.15, you have no prior conviction under the intoxication statutes, and you did not hold a commercial license at the time. An ignition interlock is a required condition, and the decision is the judge's, not automatic. Deferred is not a dismissal, but the case ends without a final conviction. It is not available where a child was in the car, or on intoxication assault or intoxication manslaughter. Our guide to deferred adjudication covers who qualifies and what it does to your record.

Deandra Grant Law has no Lewisville office. Our Denton office is fifteen minutes up I-35E, directly across the street from the courthouse that will hear your case, which is the proximity that matters. Intake answers 24/7, and if we can take your case, the consultation can be by phone or video.

It depends on the charge and whether the case is headed to trial, and we are direct about numbers at the first call. If we can take your case, the consultation with an attorney is free, and we offer payment plans. Our fee guide explains what a DWI defense should and should not cost, and How Much Does a DWI Cost in Texas? covers the fines and fees a conviction adds.

Usually not the first time. A first DWI is a Class B misdemeanor, or Class A if your alcohol concentration was 0.15 or higher, and a second DWI is a Class A misdemeanor. It becomes a felony with a third offense (third-degree felony, two to ten years), any DWI with a passenger under 15 (state jail felony), intoxication assault (third-degree felony), or intoxication manslaughter (second-degree felony). Our felony DWI guide covers each level.

0.08 for most drivers, 0.04 for anyone holding a commercial driver license, and any detectable amount for a driver under 21. The number is not the whole story: Texas also defines intoxication as losing the normal use of your mental or physical faculties, so a driver under 0.08 can still be charged, and a 0.08 result can still be challenged on how the sample was taken and tested. See what 0.08 actually means.

The administrative suspension comes first. A failed breath or blood test brings 90 days for a first offense, and a refusal brings 180 days. A prior alcohol-related contact in the last ten years raises those to one year and two years. A conviction can add its own suspension of 90 days to a year. Requesting the ALR hearing within 15 days of the notice of suspension is the only way to contest the first one, and an occupational license can keep you driving in the meantime. See our license guide.

The statute allows it: a first-offense DWI carries 72 hours to 180 days in the county jail, and up to a year if the result was 0.15 or higher. In practice a first offense in Denton County more often ends in a dismissal, a reduction, deferred adjudication where you qualify, or probation, and the jail exposure is what the defense is built to remove. The time you already spent in the Denton County Jail after the arrest counts against any sentence.

A first DWI in Texas is a Class B misdemeanor under Penal Code 49.04, and Denton County prosecutes it at the Denton County Courts Building in Denton, not in Lewisville. The numbers below are the statutory ranges; most first offenses in Denton County that end in a conviction resolve with probation rather than jail time.

The state traffic fine is separate from the criminal fine and is usually the largest single cost of a conviction. None of this applies if the case is dismissed, won at trial, or reduced to a non-DWI offense. Our first-offense DWI guide covers each penalty in detail.

Ask every lawyer you talk to the same five questions. Did they prosecute DWI cases before they defended them? Deandra Grant prosecuted DWI as a Dallas County Assistant District Attorney. How many cases have they tried to verdict? Our attorneys have tried more than 500. Can they read the lab's chromatogram, not just the summary report? Deandra Grant and Douglas Huff are ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists, and every step of the lab's work on your blood is discoverable. Will they request your ALR hearing inside the 15-day window? We do it on the first day. And do they work at the Denton County Courts Building every week? Our Denton office is directly across the street from the courts building. Our guide to choosing a DWI lawyer goes deeper on each question.

Call us before you do anything else, because two clocks are already running. The 15-day window to request an ALR hearing starts when you receive the notice of suspension, and your bond conditions take effect the moment you are released. Write down everything you remember about the stop while it is fresh, keep the paperwork you were handed, and do not discuss the case with anyone but your lawyer. Intake answers 24/7, and if we can take your case, the consultation with an attorney is free.