What happens after a DUI arrest in Hillsborough County: jail, the 10-day license deadline, refusal and CDL rules, RIDR diversion, and each court date.
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What happens after a DUI arrest in Hillsborough County: jail, the 10-day license deadline, refusal and CDL rules, RIDR diversion, and each court date.
Continue reading ›Rewrite/update date: November 3, 2026. Originally published in September 2025. A commercial driver’s license holder arrested for DUI in Florida is disqualified from commercial driving on the spot after a breath result of 0.08 or higher or a test refusal, even if the arrest happened in a personal car, under section 322.64, Florida Statutes. A…
Continue reading ›Rewrite/update date: November 3, 2026. Originally published in April 2025. Yes. You can be charged with DUI in Florida for a prescription drug if the drug is a controlled substance under chapter 893 and it impaired your normal faculties while you were driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle, under section 316.193, Florida…
Continue reading ›Rewrite/update date: November 3, 2026. Originally published in February 2026. DUI in Florida means driving or being in actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol, a controlled substance, or a listed chemical to the extent that your normal faculties are impaired, or while your blood- or breath-alcohol level is 0.08 or higher,…
Continue reading ›How to fight a DUI charge in Hillsborough County: how our Tampa attorneys attack the stop, field sobriety tests, breath and blood results, and refusal charges.
Continue reading ›A Florida business purposes only hardship license covers work, school, church, and medical trips. Here is the trip-by-trip list of what is allowed, what is a gray area, and what is banned.
Continue reading ›Rewrite/update date: October 27, 2026. Originally published in June 2025. FR44 insurance in Florida is a certificate your insurer files with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) proving you carry the higher liability limits required after a DUI: $100,000 per person and $300,000 per crash for bodily injury, plus $50,000 for…
Continue reading ›To choose a DUI defense attorney in Tampa, look for a lawyer who has taken DUI cases to jury trial and can give you case numbers to check. Before you sign, find out which attorney will actually handle your case. Get in writing what the fee covers, including the request to review your license suspension.…
Continue reading ›Florida’s impairment standard for marijuana DUI, urine and blood rules, Trenton’s Law, the science on THC and impairment, DRE opinions, medical cards, delta-8, and penalties.
Continue reading ›Every Florida DUI penalty tier as it reads in 2026, what Trenton’s Law changed, felony DUI and DUI manslaughter, Hillsborough County data, and how our attorneys get DUIs reduced.
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