DUI & DWI Lawyer, Lacey Township NJ

There is no Forked River court; your case goes to Lacey Township Municipal Court, 818 Lacey Road, Forked River, NJ 08731, (609) 693-1100. Forked River and Lanoka Harbor are sections of Lacey Township, not separate towns, so an arrest in either one, or on the Parkway inside the township, is heard in that building. Only one kind of Lacey DWI leaves that building: one that comes with an indictable criminal charge from the same incident, for example after a collision that seriously injured someone. The criminal charge belongs to Ocean County Superior Court, 100 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, and the DWI summons is generally sent there to be decided with it. Check the date on your summons and call us before it arrives.

Yes, it matters, because those observations are only as strong as the other explanations for them, and a day of sun, wind and salt water on Barnegat Bay explains red eyes and tired legs as well as alcohol does. The standardized roadside tests assume a reasonably dry, hard, level and non-slippery surface, not someone just off a moving deck standing on a sloped shoulder. The officer's opinion still has to be backed by the video and, in most cases, by a valid breath reading. Write down what you did, ate and drank that day while you remember it, and bring it to a free consultation.

No, New Jersey does not issue a work, hardship or conditional license, so whatever the sentence says about driving applies to your commute from Forked River or Lanoka Harbor as well. What the statute gives a first offender whose reading is under 0.15 percent is the ignition interlock instead: once the device is on your car you may drive again, the daily run up the Parkway from Exit 74 included, and the reading sets how many months it stays there. A reading of 0.15 percent or higher, or a charge based on drugs, still brings a period of outright suspension. All of that follows a conviction, not an arrest, which is why the stop and the Alcotest records come first. Bring your paperwork to a free consultation.

It can be, because New Jersey treats a failure to give adequate breath samples as a refusal under N.J.S.A. 39:4-50.4a unless you had a genuine reason. The Alcotest needs a minimum volume of breath on each attempt, and asthma, another lung condition or an injury can make that hard to deliver. After a township arrest those attempts are made at police headquarters on Lacey Road, close by the court, and they leave two records of their own: the machine's printout of each attempt and whatever the station cameras captured. The State must also show that the officer read you the full standard statement on refusing. Bring your medical records and both summonses, and we will set them beside those records.

Yes, you can be charged, because in New Jersey operating a vehicle means more than driving it, and courts have upheld DWI convictions of drivers found asleep behind the wheel with the engine running. The State still has to prove operation or an intent to operate, so the details decide the case: whether the engine was on, where the keys were, which seat you were in, how the car got there and what you told the trooper. An arrest at the service area in the Parkway median is heard at Lacey Township Municipal Court in Forked River. Say nothing more about that night to anyone but your lawyer. Our DWI fee is flat and quoted upfront at the free consultation.