Windsor, NY DWI and DUI Law Firms & Lawyers

The court will appoint you an attorney if you are indigent. DUI is a real specialty anyway so I would not want to have any public defender the court might appoint. DUI has serious consequences so I suggest you try to find someone.

Your question requires an attorney consultation. It is not a simple question that can be answered on this type of forum. There are many factors that would need to be considered and evaluated. Usually, the D.A. has one to file charges in a criminal case. Once the charges are filed, the statute of limitations no longer runs. The fact that an arrest warrant was issued 7 months after the initial incident, means that criminal charges were either filed at the time the warrant was issued or sometime before that. You may have a speedy trial defense depending on many factors too numerous to go into here. I strongly suggest that you contact an experienced criminal defense attorney for a face-to-face consultation and give him/her all of the facts surrounding your situation. He/she would then be in a better position to analyze your case and advise you of your options.

You need to submit an informal discovery demand on your own. It usually does not take very long to obtain the video - if it exists. In my DUI cases, I always refund part of the retainer to my clients if after viewing the evidence/video/audio they decide to plead guilty and not pursue the case.