{"id":1128,"date":"2016-10-25T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2016-10-25T05:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:15:38","slug":"oui-case-dismissed-no-fix-statute-motorist-not-given-citation-timely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/oui-case-dismissed-no-fix-statute-motorist-not-given-citation-timely\/","title":{"rendered":"OUI case dismissed under no fix statute as motorist was not given a citation timely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Massachusetts OUI Law, a motorist must receive a citation immediately when being charged with OUI. \u00a0In a case where a motorist is not placed under arrest, the citation provides notice to the motorist of the OUI charge. \u00a0By not providing the citation immediately, A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\">Massachusetts OUI lawyer<\/a> can seek dismissal of the charge under the no fix statute. \u00a0This is what occurred in a recent case.<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts Superior Court has dismissed an OUI charge after the 4 \u00bd month delay in the OUI citation was found to have not been in compliance with OUI Law and procedure. In <u>Commonwealth v. Burnham<\/u>, the defendant was the driver in a car accident but was never charged with OUI by the police officers that found him. It wasn\u2019t until the defendant was later arrested on an OUI charge in an unrelated incident, that the prosecutor obtained medical records from the initial accident and cited him with OUI despite the time lapsed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/oui-case-dismissed-no-fix-statute-motorist-not-given-citation-timely\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading OUI case dismissed under no fix statute as motorist was not given a citation timely\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Massachusetts OUI Law, a motorist must receive a citation immediately when being charged with OUI. \u00a0In a case where a motorist is not placed under arrest, the citation provides notice to the motorist of the OUI charge. \u00a0By not providing the citation immediately, A Massachusetts OUI lawyer can seek dismissal of the charge under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui-defenses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OUI case dismissed under no fix statute as motorist was not given a citation timely &#8212; 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