James Yeargan

In your review you state you blew a .095 on the breath machine. Before you ever spoke to us, or retained us, you decided, after speaking to your "friends", that you were going to go to the Municipal Court of Atlanta, and bind this case over to The State Court of Fulton County. You did this entirely on your own based on your friends' advice. I told you that you should not have done this because Atlanta will reduce DUI cases with a breath test below .10. The State Court of Fulton County does not reduce cases. All of the prosecutors in Fulton County have been threatened with their jobs if they reduce a DUI charge to a lesser offense. I told you it would take about 2 years for the case to come up in Fulton County (that is their average wait time due to back log). I told you when the case comes up we would see what we could do in that court since you just ruined your chances for a reduced charge in the Municipal Court of Atlanta. I further informed you that you had burned your best chance at a reduction in this case by sending the case to Fulton, that whoever told you to do that was terribly wrong, you shouldn't have acted on your own without a lawyer, and there is no way to return the case to the court in Atlanta after it had been sent to Fulton County. I never told you to, "lie down and take it" and that I didn't do anything for you on the first case except tell you to plea guilty. I tracked this case for 2 years, and when it came up in Fulton County I went to all the court appearances for you so you didn’t have to miss work. All motions, and other paperwork were filed. I saw issues in your case, and I told you I was going to have a motions hearing to try to get the case dismissed. You complained that you were in Boston, and would have to miss work to come back to Atlanta for court. I arranged a waiver of your presence, sent it to you, you signed it, I gave it to the judge, you were excused from the hearing, and you did not have to miss work. I have a copy of the waiver if you need it. We had a full evidentiary hearing where testimony was given, and arguments presented. After the hearing, the judge issued a ruling denying our motions. I have a copy of the motion if you need it. I then told you we would push the case to trial, and if the arresting officer didn't show up the judge would probably dismiss the case. I also said if the officer did show up it would be in our best interest to plea guilty instead of going to trial with a .095 breath test (over the legal limit in Georgia). I told you I would take the case to trial if you liked, but we would not likely win. You emailed me saying you liked this plan, and if the officer showed up you would "lie down and take it." After this, I received an email from you asking if we could use "high profile connections" to make this case "disappear." I told you I would not employ any illegal, or questionable, tactics on your behalf to make the case "disappear." I have your emails if you’d like to see them. On the trial date the officer showed up, and we plead guilty. All of the work I did for you on this case is on the court's website, and I can provide the documentation if needed. Nothing more could have been done to fight this case. Again, if you had not taken it upon yourself to move the case out of the court in Atlanta the outcome would have most likely been different. For some reason, you like going to go court unrepresented, and making bigger problems for yourself. On your second case, you never retained us. Also, you failed to go to court 3 times and has bench warrants issued for your arrest. You contacted me Friday evening to let me know you had a jury trial scheduled for Monday morning. You did contact me on Facebook because I'm not in the office on the weekends. You went to court for your court date on the second case in February 23, 2012. You waited 21 months until October 2013 to let me know you had a trial Monday morning.