DUI & DWI Lawyer, Berkeley Township NJ

At Berkeley Township Municipal Court, 631 Pinewald-Keswick Road, Bayville, NJ 08721, (732) 240-6661. That is true whether you were stopped in Bayville, Pinewald, Holiday City, Silver Ridge Park or Manitou Park, because all of them are sections of the one township rather than towns of their own. A summons tells you the charge and the date and nothing at all about the proof behind either, so do not measure the case by how the paperwork reads. Call us with the summons number and we will have the discovery request in before your first listing.

The municipality printed in the court box on the summons decides it, and here that is rarely the answer people guess. Ocean Gate is a borough of its own sitting inside Berkeley on every side, and Pine Beach, Beachwood and South Toms River all start within a few blocks of Route 9. Holiday City, Silver Ridge Park and Manitou Park sit inside Berkeley while using Toms River mailing addresses. A trooper who makes the arrest on the Berkeley miles of the Parkway still writes it into the Bayville court. If the name in that box reads Pine Beach, Beachwood or Ocean Gate instead, the Bayville date is not yours; tell us which name is printed there and which department signed the bottom.

For a first offense below 0.15 percent New Jersey no longer takes the licence away for a set stretch: you drive again as soon as an ignition interlock is fitted, and the device is the penalty that runs. At 0.15 percent and above the court adds a period with no driving, and the interlock goes on the car for that period and stays on after the licence is restored. Which of those your case ends in is settled at sentencing in the Bayville courtroom, not on the night of the arrest. Since February 2024 a court may also accept a negotiated plea. Ask us to read the Alcotest records first.

Both summonses, the DWI and the refusal under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a, are answered at Berkeley Township Municipal Court in Bayville, and the recordings belong to the State Police rather than to the township. What the refusal charge turns on is a short exchange at the station. The trooper has to read you a standard statement spelling out what refusing costs, in full, and your answer has to be what the State says it was. Silence, a question back, or two words written down as a no are exactly what gets fought over, and a recording carries that better than a narrative typed afterward. Watch it before you plead to either summons, and call us to request it.

Yes, plan on being present, because a DWI is not a charge that finishes on paper. Whether that means the courtroom on Pinewald-Keswick Road or the court's video link depends on how your date is listed, and Berkeley's own instructions tell defendants to contact the court to find out which one applies. Its video sessions come with published conditions: you join under your first and last name, from a closed room with nobody else in it, and recording the proceeding is prohibited. We find out how your listing is set and stand with you when the case is called. What we charge for a DWI is one flat figure, and you hear it at the free consultation before anything is signed.