DUI Defense Attorney in Clearwater, FL

A night out on Clearwater Beach or along the Cleveland Street District can turn into a DUI arrest before you've processed what's happening. If Clearwater Police or the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrested you, the most important thing to know is this: you have 10 days to challenge your driver's license suspension. Not ten business days. Ten days.

Attorney Michael Mastrogiovanni started his career at the 6th Circuit State Attorney's Office — the same office that will prosecute your Clearwater DUI — and has defended DUI cases in Pinellas County courtrooms for more than twenty years. Our office is minutes from the Pinellas County Justice Center on 49th Street, and we know how DUI cases actually get resolved here.

The First 10 Days Decide Your License

Whether you blew over .08 or refused the breath test, your license was likely taken on the spot. We file the DMV challenge immediately — clients often have a temporary license the same day — and we use the administrative hearing to lock in testimony that helps your criminal case later. Checkpoints and patrols concentrate along Gulf-to-Bay, US 19, and the beach causeways; where and how you were stopped is often the first thing we attack.

Local Experience That Shows

DUI outcomes depend on details: the reason for the stop, how field sobriety exercises were administered on uneven pavement, whether the breath machine was maintained. As a former prosecutor, Michael knows what the State's file will look like before we ever see it. Many Clearwater clients resolve their cases without ever appearing in court — and when a reduction to reckless driving is the right outcome, we'll tell you plainly that it's a reduction, because that's how we do things.

DUI Defense Attorney in Clearwater

The First 10 Days Decide Your License

Local Experience That Shows

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