If you plead guilty to a DWI case, then you will be found guilty of DWI, and subject to the punishments that come along with the sentence verdict. Thus, if you want to avoid possible jail time, then you’d have to go into court and fight your case.

The first thing that DWI defense attorneys will do, is to challenge the circumstances of arrest. They will try to prove that the arresting officer didn’t have probable cause to pull you over. Legally, officers can’t pull a driver over, if they do not exhibit the usual indicators of DWI, as stated above.

Lawyers will also ask you if you have been read your Miranda rights at the time of the arrest, because if the officer failed to read you these rights, then anything that you said after being taken into arrest for suspected DWI, is inadmissible in court. Your lawyer will also need to review the Breathalyzer results and information, to ensure that the results are also permissible in court.

Many DWI charges have been successfully won in court due to technical breaches that occured during the gathering of evidence.