DJ's DUI Case Dismissed
Sep 05, 2025OUTCOME: Dismissal
SM was a well-known DJ, doing large parties and clubs. On his way home from a show in Athens he was stopped in Gwinnett County on I-85 by a Norcross PD Officer. The officer smelled alcohol and arrested ... him for DUI. He refused to provide a blood sample and the officer seized his license (suspending it for 1 year without a work permit). To make matters worse, after a few months, SM got another DUI arrest in another county. We were able to get the second DUI reduced to a Reckless Driving with a $50 fine (and no probation). Then, based on Zilke v. State, 299 Ga. 232 (2016), we were able to show the Norcross PD Officer did not have jurisdiction to stop SM, much less conduct field sobriety tests on him. The Gwinnett DUI was dismissed as well.