DUI is the work this practice was built around.
Founding member of the National College of DUI Defense. Certified to perform the same standardized field-sobriety tests as Colorado law enforcement — the same training the prosecution’s witnesses received. More than three decades trying DUI cases in Denver-metro courts.
DUI cases turn on procedure. The roadside stop. The field sobriety tests. The breath or blood evidence. The Express Consent advisement. Every one of those is a place where the prosecution’s case can be challenged on its own terms, not on the underlying facts.
That challenge requires a defense lawyer who knows the procedure as well as the prosecution’s expert does. The National College of DUI Defense exists to train defense lawyers to that standard. Richard is a founding member.
The same is true of the standardized field-sobriety tests — the walk-and-turn, the one-leg stand, the horizontal gaze nystagmus. Officers receive specific training and certification to administer them. Defense lawyers who hold the same certification can challenge how the test was given with detailed authority. Richard holds that certification.
Trial record
100+ jury trials
Across DUI, felony, and violent-crime matters.
NCDD founding member
Among the original cohort that established the National College of DUI Defense as a standard for defense practice in this area.
SFST certified
Same standardized field-sobriety-test certification as Colorado law-enforcement officers.
Every kind of DUI case in Colorado.
First-offense and repeat DUI; aggravated DUI involving injury or property damage; the felony fourth offense; the underage cases that threaten a license before adulthood; refusal cases that turn on the Express Consent advisement. And the DMV side — the license-revocation hearing that runs on its own track and its own timeline, independently of the criminal case.
- ·First-offense DUI
- ·Second and third DUI
- ·Felony DUI (fourth or subsequent; or with bodily injury)
- ·Underage DUI / minor in possession
- ·DUI with accident
- ·DUI per se / refusal
- ·DMV license-revocation hearings
- ·Field sobriety test challenges
- ·Breath, blood, and chemical test challenges
The stop.
Did the officer have lawful reason to pull you over? A stop without articulable suspicion can suppress everything that follows — field-sobriety tests, breath evidence, the arrest itself.
The tests.
Were the field-sobriety tests administered to standard? Was the breath machine calibrated and certified? Was blood drawn by a qualified technician within the statutory window? Each question is a defense.
The DMV side.
Colorado’s Express Consent revocation runs on a seven-day clock that begins at the arrest, separate from the criminal docket. Missing the deadline forfeits the hearing. This is one of the first things to handle, before anything else.
Arrested for DUI? Call now.
The DMV revocation clock starts at the arrest and runs in calendar days, not business days. The first conversation is free, and it’s with Richard.