WHAT TO DO AFTER A DUI ARREST IN NEW YORK CITY

1. Stay Calm and Cooperative at Arrest. Don't resist arrest - it can add new criminal charge. Provide I.D., but you do not have to answer incriminating questions. Remember: anything you say can be used against you later.

2. Understand the Charge. In New York, there are several alcohol/drug-related driving offenses:

. - DWI (Driving While Intoxicated): BAC of 0.08% or higher, or showing signs of impairment.

- Aggravated DWI: BAC of 0.18 % or higher.

- DWAI (Driving While Ability Impaired): BAC of 0.05% to 0.07%, or impairment by drugs.

- Chemical Test Refusal: Refusing a breath, blood, or urine test can result in immediate license suspension by the DMV, even before Court appearance.

3. Contact a Criminal Defense Attorney Immediately.  You have the right to an attorney. Ask to speak to one as soon as possible. A local NYC DWI lawyer can guide you through arraignment, bail and DMV hearings. Do not discuss your case with police or prosecutors without your lawyer present.

4. Prepare for Arraignment. Typically occurs within 24 hours of arrest. You'll hear the formal charges against you. The judge will decide on bail, release, or other conditions.

5. Deal with your Driver's License. Upon arrest, your license is usually suspended at arraignment, pending a DMV hearing. You must request a DMV hearing within 15 days to challenge the suspension. If you miss this deadline, your suspension becomes automatic.

6. Gather Evidence Quickly. Write down everything you remember about the arrest (time, location, officer behavior, sobriety tests). Save receipts if you bought food or drinks before the arrest (could show BAC timeline). Identify witnesses who were with you before or during the stop.

7. Consider the Consequences. A DWI conviction in New York carries serious penalties. Fines $500-$1000 for a first offense. Jail up to 1 year (though many first-time offenders get probation or conditional discharge). License Revocation minimum 6 months for a first DWI. IID (Ignition Interlock Device): Required for at least 6 months in any vehicle you own or operate.

8. Follow Court Orders Strictly. If released on conditions, comply with alcohol/drug testing classes or monitoring. Failure to comply can result in bail revocation and jail time.

9. Explore Alternatives and Defenses. A skilled defense attorney may challenge: the legality of the traffic stop, accuracy of breath or blood tests or, whether officers followed proper procedures. For the first-time offenders there may also be opportunities for reduced charges (e.g. from DWI to DWAI) or diversion programs.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice law in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or, preferably, by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

CHARLIE KIRK RECEIVED ONE TALENT FROM GOD, BUT HE BROUGHT BACK TO HIM 10 OF THEM

 When I look at what Charlie Kirk achieved in 31 years of his young life, I consider myself a failure. And many of you should to. He built in his short life a tremendous movement called Turning Point U.S.A., which he founded together with Bill Montgomery, and brought back the high school and college students to the conservative movement. In fact, he was highly instrumental in winning Trump his second presidency. When I hear now Democrats and progressives like Ilhan Omar or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling him a fascist, hater, ignorant, uneducated I can only laugh silently at their efforts to mischaracterize a giant of a man, who embraced and talked to all his ideological enemies, and shunned nobody. In fact, I would like them to debate Charlie Kirk, who never graduated from a college, and I know how it would have gone for them. Charlie did not have time in his short life to waste it for college and to be brain washed pursuant to the templates provided by the sponsors of globalism and progressivism.  He also brought back Jesus Christ and his gospel of forgiveness back to the mainstream life of America, no matter how badly the legacy media is trying to root out Jesus Christ from public space. Long live Charlie Kirk, the man who loved all and shunned nobody.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice law in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250), or, preferably, by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

GOOD CAUSE EVICTION LAW

 Effective April 20, 2024, the Good Cause Eviction Law provides tenants in unregulated housing with enhanced protections. Landlord must now demonstrate "good cause" to evict a tenant, refuse rent renewal, or impose excessive rent increases. A rent increase exceeding 8.82% is considered unreasonable unless the landlord can justify it in court.

Common example of "good cause" for eviction include non-payment of rent, violation of a substantial term of a lease, creating a nuisance, or substantial damage to the property. It is important to note that the law applies to tenants in unregulated rental housing who lived in their unit at least 30 days, but there are exemptions for certain situations, such as owner occupied building with a few units.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York Attorney, admitted to practice law in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250), or preferably by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

DEMOCRATS SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR MENTALLY ILL REPEATED CRIMINALS' MURDERS

 The murder of a Ukrainian refugee girl on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina by a homeless African-American man boggles the mind of an average person. But here we go again; another mentally ill person, with a thick rap sheet, allowed to freely roam the streets of American cities. I have watched personally last year the trial of Danny Penny in Manhattan's Criminal Courthouse charged with homicide of a homeless African-American man, Jordan Neely. Danny Penny, the good Samaritan and former marine, who restrained Jordan Neely while he was threatening passengers of New York City F subway train, was charged with homicide and had to undergo criminal trial for his good Samaritan deed. As is the case with the Charlotte killer, Jordan Neely also had a thick rap sheet, and was a known mentally disturbed person, allowed by the criminal justice and mental health system to be released and freely roam the streets of a big city. Yet, it was Danny Penny, an architecture student and a former marine, who was treated by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg as a criminal. From the testimonies of the witnesses, the passengers of the car of the F train who were threatened by Jordan Neely, it appeared that Danny Penny should have never been charged with homicide. The real guilty are those who allow the repeated criminals with mental issues to be released and freely roam the streets and trains of big cities. The video showing the attack on the innocent and quiet Ukrainian refugee girl, coming home from work at pizzeria in Charlotte is truly shocking. The fact is that one of the major contributing causes to the criminal acts perpetrated by repeated criminal offenders, with mental health problems, are democrats and the lenient criminal justice policies executed by their District Attorneys, exemplified by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg who was able to get creative in concocting the criminal charges against Donald Trump, yet that creativity somehow escapes him when dealing with repeated criminal offenders, whom he releases to the streets.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York Attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-42500 or, preferably, by e-mail at:janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

DEMOCRATS LOSE CREDIBILITY SAYING NO TO EACH OF TRUMP'S SUCCESSES

 It was a great week for Trump Administration. Supreme Court said no to universal injunctions being issued by local district federal judges, which were stopping on a national level execution of President Trump's policies, as I described in more detail in one of my earlier articles. The stock market reached yesterday the all-time high and the recession is nowhere in sight, as the mainstream media and the Democrats predicted since the implementation of Trump tariffs program. The illegal border crossings through the southern border for the month of May were reduced to zero, and there was no passing of new law needed to accomplish that, as former President Biden claimed when he was the chief law enforcer.  President Trump finally received a pledge from NATO countries, except for Spain, to raise their military spending in the coming years to 5% of their GDP, which at this time was achieved only by the U.S. and Poland. And the most important, the U.S. pilots, with help of Israelis in preceding days, set back Iran's ability to make nuclear bombs for many years, it seems, not months, as the mainstream media and the Democrats would like as to believe. 

It is clear now to all of us the Democrats, as well as mainstream media, are always looking for something to attack President Trump with. They have no programs, no ideas, no position, no goals. They only try to find something to attack President Trump with, to show that he is a failure, or that what he did is not a success.

Janusz Andrzejewski, is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or, preferably, by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

TRUMP DELIVERS AGAIN, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND NEW JOBS IN APRIL

 By reading New York Times or listening to mainstream media you would think that the U.S. economy under Trump is a disaster, the country in ruin. Yet, the market. yet the economy does not care about the mainstream media doomsday narrative. An impressive number of 177,000 new jobs was added throughout the United States in April. Moreover, the stock market has regained whatever it has lost earlier. Yet, I was not able to find on the front page of New York Times any of the above news, as apparently, they do not agree with the New York Times narrative od doomsday the Trump administration is apparently bringing with its economic policies. And that southern border, impressive results obtained without any new legislation. Look, Joe Biden and learn how to take care of things from the man who talks the talk and walks the walk! Or go back to your basement...

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or, preferably, by e-mail at janusz@januszandrzejewski.com

WHAT GOES AROUND, IT COMES AROUND

 Letitia James, New York Attorney General, rode on a high horse when on February 17, 2024, greeting New York Supreme Court Judge Engoron's ruling, ordering Donald Trump to pay $354.9 million in penalties and banning him from business in New York State, she said to the cameras, "No one is above the law...". The real estate experts in their majority were of the opinion that Judge Engoron grossly underestimated the value of Mar a Lago property, hence the ruling was very suspect at the least. Letitia James and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, in his criminal action against Trump, needed some creative charges and creative justice to get Trump but it appears now that to get Letitia James Trump might not need to stretch anything because apparently Letitia James perpetrated plainly mortgage fraud as well as she "abdicated" her office by establishing her primary residence in the state of Virginia, pursuant to Newsweek story. It appears that 2 months before filing action against Trump, Letitia James amended her own records as part of a real estate transaction. A document signed on August 17, 2023 shows that she intended to change her residence to Norfolk, Virginia. She apparently stated on the mortgage application: "I HEREBY DECLARE that I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence". Newsweek reports that the existence of the evidence was first reported by Sam Antar of the White Collar Fraud Blog. A separate land record stipulates that Letitia James and the co-applicant, her cousin Shamice Thompson-Hairston, "to occupy, establish and use" the Norfolk home as "their principal residence" within 60 days and to keep it their "principal residence" for at least one year. Apparently, Letitia James did not do what she declared in her mortgage application what evidences the mortgage fraud. Pursuant to New York Post, the Trump Administration , in particular, The U.S. Federal Housing Finance  Agency, referred Letitia James, NY Attorney General, for potential prosecution over the alleged mortgage fraud. It seems that we all are sinners, only Jesus Christ was perfect. So, all the politicians, before you start to speak from a high horse, examine your sins, as we all should.

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York attorney, admitted to practice in 1993. You can contact him by telephone (212-634-4250) or, preferably, by e-mail at: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com