Shane Phelps recently received advanced level training, from the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys, on attacking DUI reports and videos in DUI cases. To effectively attack DUI reports and videos, it is critical to know and use the officer’s NHTSA Manuals against him. Even the most experienced officers miss important steps and make mistakes in DUI investigations, which can result in people being wrongfully arrested for DUI. Some key areas to focus attention on are: discrepancies between the police report and the video, officers who ignore/downplay/neglect injuries and medical conditions, the officer’s instructions and demonstrations of the field sobriety tests, an officer’s use of trick questions, improper classification of clues, copy and pasting errors, misused keywords, and poor quality reports when a video is present. This training was provided by Peter Krantz, a former law enforcement officer who was a Drug Recognition Expert and a Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Instructor. Peter has transitioned out of law enforcement and is now in law school to become an attorney who will defend people who are arrested for DUI.
The American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys has compiled information from Judges, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutors (the Top DUI Prosecutors in each State), DUI Prosecutors, current Law Enforcement Officers, former Law Enforcement Officers, and DUI Defense Attorneys to determine exactly what skills, knowledge, training, tools, resources, and strategies win the most DUI cases at trial and are also used to get DUI cases successfully resolved for the defense prior to trial.
When people need a DUI Attorney, the biggest challenge is knowing whether or not an attorney truly has the skills, knowledge, training, tools, resources, and strategies that are needed to successfully resolve and win DUI cases. Countless attorneys handle DUI cases. But, only a very small percentage have the skills, knowledge, training, tools, resources, and strategies that are needed to successfully resolve and win DUI cases.
Members of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys have received advanced level training on the strategies that win the most DUI cases at trial and are also used to get DUI cases successfully resolved for the defense prior to trial. Members of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys also have access to the resources and tools that are used to win and successfully resolve DUI cases and these are resources and tools that only a very small percentage of DUI attorneys have access to and use.
Shane Phelps is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Brazos County and surrounding counties as well as numerous jurisdictions around Texas. Shane is a former United States Marine and graduated from Rice University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Shane graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1987 and began his legal career as an assistant District Attorney in Harris County. In 1990, Shane accepted a position as an assistant attorney general and prosecuted high profile and complex criminal prosecutions across Texas. In 1993, Shane was promoted to head up a new Prosecutor Assistance and Special Investigations Division of the Office of the Attorney General. In 1999, Shane was appointed by newly-elected Attorney General John Cornyn to the position of Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice for Texas. In that role, Shane supervised 11 divisions of the Office of the Attorney General including the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, Law Enforcement Defense, Prosecutor Assistance and Special Investigations, the Crime Victims Institute, Financial Crimes, and Capital Litigation, among other divisions.
In 2001, Shane accepted a position as First Assistant District Attorney for Brazos County and served in that role for 10 years before beginning his own criminal defense practice. Shane has been board certified in criminal law for more than 25 years. He is a member of the College of the State Bar and was recently designated a Forensic Lawyer-Scientist by Chemistry and Law Division of the American Chemical Society. Shane is a member of the board of directors of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and is president of the Brazos County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
A significant percentage of Shane’s criminal defense practice is devoted to the defense of DWIs.
To learn more about Shane Phelps, please visit http://www.shanephelpslaw.com/ or Attorney Profile – AAPDA
To learn more about the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys, please visit http://www.aapda.org/
Information in this news release is the opinion of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys (AAPDA). The information contained throughout the AAPDA website is educational and is intended only for informational and educational purposes. Information on the AAPDA website is the opinion of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys (AAPDA), it is not intended to be legal advice, and it should not be used as legal advice. Rather, all information found on the AAPDA website is for general educational and informational purposes only. AAPDA does not guarantee or imply the competence level of any attorney, whether or not they are a member of AAPDA. When hiring an attorney, a person should personally contact the attorney and confirm the attorney’s skills, knowledge, training, tools, resources, strategies, and other credentials. Any decision to hire an attorney should be based on a person’s satisfaction, after contacting the attorney, that the attorney hired is who they feel comfortable with and want to represent them. The specific outcome of each DUI case cannot be anticipated or guaranteed by AAPDA, or anyone else, as many factors can affect the outcome of each individual case.
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