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OUI Cases

Drunk Driving Cases

The law firm of Nichols & Webb has extensive legal defense experience in Maine drunk driving cases representing citizens accused of operating under the influence — also referred to as OUI, DUI, and DWI. If you have been charged with drunk driving, your driver’s license and/or right to operate a motor vehicle in the State of Maine may be in jeopardy prior to your first court date. You should contact an attorney immediately to protect your rights. Nichols & Webb provides free initial consultations to discuss the facts of your OUI, DUI or DWI case. From experience we know the majority of Maine drunk driving cases can be successfully resolved without the need of a jury trial, but see below for descriptions of some of our court cases that did:

Charge:
Blood/Alcohol Content:
Issues:
Case 1: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .14% BAC Interfering Chemicals
Case 2: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .15% BAC Improper Administration of Breath Test
Case 3: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Lack of Credibility of Police and Lay Witnesses
Case 4: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .21% BAC Improper Calibration of Intoxilyzer and Lack
of Credibility of Police
Case 5: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .17% BAC Radio Frequency Interference-Cell Phone
Case 6: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .15% BAC Acid Reflux Disease
Case 7: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Police Misconduct
Case 8: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .14% BAC Interfering Chemicals
Case 9: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Lack of Credibility of Police
Case 10: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .15% BAC Chewing Tobacco in Mouth and Lack of Credibility
of Police
Case 11: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Lack of Credibility of Police and Improper Administration
of Field Sobriety Tests
Case 12: Operating Under the
Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .09% BAC Improper Administration of Intoxilyzer
Case 13: Operating Under the Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .10% BAC Retrograde Extrapolation-Recent Alcohol Consumption
Case 14: Operating Under the Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .17% BAC Bleeding Gums, Residual Mouth Alcohol, Periodontal Disease
Case 15: Operating Under the Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL 3rd Offense, Prosecutorial Incompetence
Case 16: Operating Under the Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL 3rd Offense, Lack of Credibility of Police
Case 17: Operating Under the Influence
(OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .21% BAC Chewing Tobacco in Mouth and Lack of Credibility of Police
Case 18: Operating Under the
Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .05% BAC Exclusion of evidence of consumption of prescription drugs
Case 19: Operating Under the
Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Validity of field sobriety tests/requested attorney for breath test
Case 20: Operating Under the
Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .16% BAC Interfering chemicals
Case 21: Operating Under the
Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI)		 .17% BAC Fifteen minute observation period. Residual mouth alcohol contamination
Case 22: Operating Under the
Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI)		 REFUSAL Good driving vs. poor field sobriety tests
Case 23: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) REFUSAL Motion to suppress evidence, zero tolerance, prior conviction, refusal
Case 24: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .16% BAC Hewing tobacco, lack of credibility of police, invalid sample, residual mouth alcohol
Case 25: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) REFUSAL Lack of operation of motor vehicle, refusal, lack of credibility of lay witnesses
Case 26: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .12% BAC Radio frequency interference, residual mouth alcohol
Case 27: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .10% BAC Margin of error, validity of field sobriety tests
Case 28: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .10% BAC Margin of error, validity of field sobriety tests
Case 29: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .19% BAC Diabetes, hyperglycemia and interfering chemicals, commercial
Case 30: Operating Under the Influence (OUI, DUI, DWI) .10% BAC Poor testing, DVD proof