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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    You can file any lawsuit that you choose to file but, as your lawyer has almost certainly already told you, you are not going to get the DMV, the state or the police department to reimburse you for your legal fees from that hearing.

    Given that you don't deny that the traffic stop was justified by your speeding, and admit that you failed to obey a lawful order from a police officer, it seems exceptionally unlikely that you'll be able to establish any sort of civil rights violation even if the prosecutor chooses to dismiss the obstruction charge, if that's what we're talking about. At this point, however, it's not even clear what charges remain pending against you -- you have not shared that information with us.

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    You can file any lawsuit that you choose to file but, as your lawyer has almost certainly already told you, you are not going to get the DMV, the state or the police department to reimburse you for your legal fees from that hearing.

    Given that you don't deny that the traffic stop was justified by your speeding, and admit that you failed to obey a lawful order from a police officer, it seems exceptionally unlikely that you'll be able to establish any sort of civil rights violation even if the prosecutor chooses to dismiss the obstruction charge, if that's what we're talking about. At this point, however, it's not even clear what charges remain pending against you -- you have not shared that information with us.
    I am not a lawyer, but I believe being denied right to legal counsel, is very much so a civil rights violation from my understanding. Isn't that where the monies come from when someone wins a civil rights lawsuit? The state and/or county? If I can't sue on the basis of reimbursement, I should be able to sue on the basis of a civil rights violation, correct?

    My traffic stop was justified, but I still interpret the situation as my rights being violated, when I was denied access to a lawyer from the very start.

    My remaining charges are harassment 2nd, and obstruction of justice - these charges came AFTER I asked many times for a lawyer. All 3 officers admitted at a recorded, implied consent refusal hearing, that they all did in fact deny me an attorney upon every request I made, to have one. I asked for a phone inside the station and on the street when they stopped me, and they never complied. My phone was not on me & I have it's location logged in my Google Location History of the phone, which I imagine I can subpoena that personal record easily from Google if needed.

    I think I have a very clear case of a civil rights violation from what I am seeing, going through this process.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    you have the right to have an attorney before a custodial interrogation.

    you do not have the right to refuse to exit the vehicle without an attorney, you are fortunate your windows was not smashed in and you forcibly extracted through it at gunpoint.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

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    you have the right to have an attorney before a custodial interrogation.

    you do not have the right to refuse to exit the vehicle without an attorney, you are fortunate your windows was not smashed in and you forcibly extracted through it at gunpoint.
    I am aware of that, but as explained my rights were also violated in that regard, as they attempted to interrogate me, while denying me access to an attorney. I told them I was pleading the 5th, they never offered me a lawyer, and continued to ask me questions. They used my verbal comments of me telling them they were doing their job wrong during their attempted interrogation, in order to originate the harassment charge.

    Based on what you said, does not mean my rights were not violated, cause they still were at the end of the day. If I am incorrect, I would need to understand how my rights WERE NOT violated, given the circumstances. My rights meaning just that of denied legal counsel. I suffered losses due to this, based on the violation of my rights.

    They verbally stated on dash cam their reason for asking me to step out, was to insure I could drive (FST), to which I explained I wanted an attorney. They interrogated me on the street as well, although I continually told them I want a lawyer. They used my words on the street in their reports as well.

    I agree, I am fortunate all though I truly do not care about what could of happened. I even invited them to shoot me if they wanted to, so that I could file suit. They never shot me though.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    We praise them for showing remarkable restraint in that lack of action!

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

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    My traffic stop was justified, but I still interpret the situation as my rights being violated, when I was denied access to a lawyer from the very start.
    Your request for a lawyer does not give you any right to refuse to comply with the lawful orders of a police officer. Your forgetting your phone at home is your own fault, not that of the police. You have already resolved the issue relating to your chemical test rights, by virtue of the fact that you still have your license.

    Again, I expect that your lawyer has already explained all of this to you.

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    I understand that I am technically required to get out if an officer simply wants me to get out of a car.

    To my knowledge, reasonable grounds have to be established in order to request an FST in NY. Officers used reason of eye color, face color, and smell. Eye color, face color, and smell are not technically legal grounds for probable cause so I fail to see how they are reasonable grounds either, in order to request an FST. I was being asked to get out of the car for the reason of FST, which I did not determine to be legal, due to the above. If it was just a simple request to get out it would be different in that regard, but they were telling me to get out on the basis that I had demonstrate I could drive (FST).

    Me forgetting my phone is my fault, yes. They officers still don't have the right to deny me my right to counsel though. They were supposed to provide me a phone & 24/7 lawyer contact from inside the barracks according to the DMV judge, but the officers refused to, even though I repeatedly told them I want counsel. Correct, this is the reason as to why I still have my license.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    Behavior like this is what can get a person killed.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    That YOU personally "fail to see" how this is reasonable grounds does not mean it isn't. And that you were treated roughly and charged with what you are charged with means nothing except that you and the officers had a different viewpoint, and sharing your viewpoint, as well as your arguments at that particular time, were inappropriate, if not totally off base.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue the State to Recover Attorney Fees from a DMV Hearing

    You don't really believe that they're require to deliver an attorney to you at the side of the road, do you?

    No, you couldn't really believe that. I must be misunderstanding you.

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