DUI - Cardon, Stuart, & Associates

DUIs, Marijuana, and Prescription drugs

06/13/201304/24/2018 Kelly Cardon

The next several years will see many well based challenges to current Utah laws relating to DUIs, THC metabolite and prescription drugs. DUIs that are based on alcohol or prescription drugs are very different animals and attempting to turn a driving with THC metabolite into substantially the same as a DUI in terms of punishment and effect is now very… Read More

Paraphanalia and Controlled Substance: Loss of License

05/12/201304/24/2018 Kelly Cardon

If you are convicted of either if these two charges you will lose you driver’s license, even if it had nothing to do with driving. People often do not understand this fact, and don’t find out until they’ve posted bail, or plead guilty, they receive notice from Driver’s License of the revocation of their license for 6 months, a longer… Read More

Taking action upon an arrest for DUI

05/12/201304/24/2018 Kelly Cardon

Two courses of action are set in motion when you are arrested for DUI: administrative action by the Drivers License Bureau and criminal action by the court system. You must, in order to have any chance to save your driving privilege, within 10 day of the arrest, request a hearing in writing. That hearing will usually be held within 30… Read More

DUI and Personal Injury: Improving Bad Situations

05/09/201304/24/2018 Kelly Cardon

Whether you’ve created a bad situation for yourself, or someone has done that to you, it immediately becomes a time to make decisions. To limit damages and improve out of the facts, or to turn your palms up and suffer all of the consequences, that becomes your first deciding point. Then who to engage to untangle the DUI or criminal… Read More

Miranda Warning and DUI

04/20/201303/08/2017 Kelly Cardon

“But, the officer didn’t give me my Miranda warning.” What is the result of not giving Miranda warning when there has been a custody effected and an interrogation or questioning has begun. If a court were to find that these requirements have been met, then that court may block or suppress information obtained as a result thereof from coming into… Read More

Expecting the Worst

04/08/201303/08/2017 Kelly Cardon

Being arrested for DUI brings about an expectation of the worst: jail, loss of license, loss of job, financial consequences including insurance issues, conversations among your peers and family members, and most importantly, fear of the unknown. Finding an experienced guide who can guide you through the maze of laws and exposure, as well as the fear that has jumped… Read More

Using Adversity

04/03/201303/08/2017 Kelly Cardon

The more we’re challenged, the better we become. What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. Failure brings success. All of these have the same theme. Why then do we groan at challenge, stress, and failure? Welcome the difficult, the query, the obstacle, the error. When you’ve made a mistake, invest in it, learn from it, use it to make your… Read More

Let others think for you?

03/16/201303/08/2017 Kelly Cardon

If you do the research, the pondering, and the deciding, you own the result: good or bad. If good, you earn the confidence, the esteem that comes with it. If bad or wrong, you own that too, and you learn and grow from the experience, unlikely to make the same error again. If someone else has decided for you, right… Read More

DUI and Mistakes

03/03/201303/08/2017 Kelly Cardon

Mistakes in our lives are inevitable. We can all agree to this principle. Learning from them and making the most of the experience is not. Limiting the damage of them is not. But both of these tenets must be goals once the mistake has been made. Only you can choose the right attorney, and only you can choose not to… Read More

DUI: Deserving? or the real question