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BOATING WHILE INTOXICATED SEASON IN HOUSTON

Boating While Intoxicated Lawyers

Boating While Intoxicated – Now that the weather is warming up, Texans will be hitting our waterways in Conroe, Livingston, Houston or Galveston in record numbers. 

That means boating and drinking. 

Let us say this first and foremost: If you’re the captain of a water vessel,  keep the safety of your passengers, yourself and other boaters in mind–don’t drink while boating.

Boating while intoxicated (BWI) is a serious charge in Texas. 

If fact, a BWI charge is every bit as serious as driving while intoxicated (DWI). 

You can be charged with BWI which is a Class B misdemeanor if the officer thinks you’re intoxicated while operating a watercraft. 

That charge comes with a minimum confinement of 72 hours.

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Boating while intoxicated is a serious crime in Houston, Texas. Don’t drink and operate a boat on Texas waters.

The attorneys at Trichter & LeGrand understand that a boating while intoxicated charge can hurt your reputation the same as a DWI or DUI arrest can. 

Be sure to consult a DWI Specialist criminal defense attorney for a BWI charge because the cards are stacked against you. 

The flawed breath and blood testing as well as the unfairness of the shoreside field sobriety tests give law enforcement an advantage, so you must know your rights as well as have an aggressive attorney on your side to represent you.

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J. Gary Trichter Voted “Best Lawyer in America” by Woodward White, Inc. for 2013

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J. GARY TRICHTER VOTED “BEST LAWYER IN AMERICA” BY WOODWARD WHITE, INC. FOR 2013

DWI Specialist Gary Trichter

The founder of Trichter & LeGrand, PC, J. Gary Trichter, a prominent Houston DWI lawyer, has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White, Inc. in the DUI/DWI Defense practice area. 

The Houston DWI lawyer was selected for the eleventh time.

Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive, rigorous peer-review survey of more than three million confidential evaluations by top attorneys across the United States. 

Because no fee or purchase is required, listing in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor, according to the publication.

J. Gary Trichter is a leader and one of the most successful DWI trial and appellate lawyers in the United States. 

He is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest professional and ethical rating a lawyer can receive. 

Gary co-authored the DWI textbook Texas Drunk Driving Law and is the founding member of the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD). 

In July, he was honored with the Erwin-Taylor Award by the (NCDD) at their annual session held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gary was the first DWI Specialist in the State of Texas who is Board-certified DWI/DUI Defense by the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD), the sole entity approved by the American Bar Association to grant such a qualification. 

Currently, the Texas Bar Association does not have a DWI defense board certification, but it does recognize the ABA DWI board certification.

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Do I need a lawyer to help me in a DWI prosecution and an ALR proceeding?

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Do I need a lawyer to help me in a DWI prosecution and an ALR proceeding?

Absolutely! You should have legal representation in your Administrative License Revocation or ALR hearing. According to the State of Texas, the ALR Program is

“a civil administrative process unrelated to criminal court proceedings, in which individuals arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) or boating while intoxicated (BWI) who refuse to take or who fail a blood or breath test attempt to save their driver’s license.”


The best reason to request an ALR hearing is to try to save your driver’s license. 

In this hearing, you will force DPS to attempt to prove that the police officer who stopped and arrested you did so with either reasonable suspicion or probable cause. 

DPS will also argue that you refused to take a requested breath and or blood test, and when you took one of the tests, you had a BAC result of .08 or more.

In order to suspend your license, DPS must provide certain evidence, depending on the facts of your case. 

If they can’t do that, you win by default.

The ALR Hearing

In an ALR hearing, not just an ordinary lawyer will do. 

You need a lawyer who is skilled in representing persons charged with DWI. 

There are many lawyers who take DWI cases; however, there are only a few lawyers who actually try motion hearings and litigate jury trials and ALR hearings. 

The task of finding a good DWI lawyer should be taken very seriously because if you make the wrong choice, that decision will adversely affect your life, your reputation, and your future.

Everyone needs ALR hearing help from a skilled lawyer

No matter how smart you may think you are, you simply cannot defend yourself against a DWI charge as well as a skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced DWI / ALR trial lawyer. 

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