El Dorado Hills, CA DUI Law Firms & Lawyers

You have been greatly misinformed. You can not simply pay. You have an arrest warrant for you. To handle a warrant, you must turn yourself in to the issuing court, with or without an attorney. On misdemeanors and infractions, an attorney can appear in court without the defendant being present which is safer and avoids immediately being taken into custody. You'll try to negotiate a recall of the warrant[s] and seek bail reduction or OR release. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain on any ?Failure to Appear? charge or probation violation that caused the warrant. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain or take to trial the outstanding charge that caused the warrant. While this isn't a 'capital case', you now face potential jail and fines, so handle it right. Effective plea-bargaining by your attorney, using whatever legal defenses, facts and sympathies there may be, could possibly keep you out of jail, or at least dramatically reduce it. Unless you're competent to effectively represent yourself in court against a professional prosecutor trying to put you in jail, most people hire an attorney who can. If serious about hiring counsel to help in this, feel free to contact me.

I hope you did not blow a .56. That is 7x the legal limit. You would probably be dead. As far as fighting it after being sentenced. Your only recourse is to appeal the case to a higher court. You cannot appeal because you don't like the result. An appeal is based solely upon a reversible error committed during the trial.