Indian Harbour Beach DUI Lawyer

A small island city with two main roads

Indian Harbour Beach is a barrier island city between Satellite Beach and Indialantic. Traffic runs north and south on A1A and crosses to the mainland on State Road 518, the Eau Gallie Causeway. DUI stops here are commonly made by the Indian Harbour Beach Police Department, often on one of those two roads.

A stop on the causeway or on A1A follows the same Florida rules as anywhere else: a lawful reason for the stop, then the officer's observations and field sobriety exercises, then a decision on whether to arrest.

What happens with the breath test after an arrest

After a DUI arrest, Florida's implied consent law applies to a lawful breath test. Breath testing in Florida uses the Intoxilyzer 8000, an instrument regulated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

A 20 minute observation period is required before the test. The defense can obtain the breath records through discovery and compare them with the video and the officer's report. If the rules were not followed, the result may be challenged, depending on the facts.

A result of 0.08 or higher is one way the state tries to prove DUI; impairment of normal faculties is the other. Enhanced penalties apply at 0.15 or higher.

Court, the license hearing and the 10 day window

Indian Harbour Beach DUI cases are filed in Brevard County Court, within the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. The county runs courthouses in Viera, Titusville and Melbourne, with the Moore Justice Center in Viera as its main courthouse, and the court chooses the courthouse for each hearing.

The arrest also triggers an administrative suspension by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The request for a formal review hearing must be made within 10 days, and if it is not, the suspension takes effect.

Help just up A1A

The firm's Satellite Beach office is next door, just north on A1A. Calls are answered 24 hours a day, and case reviews are free.

Indian Harbour Beach at a glance

County: Brevard County
Court: Brevard County Court, which sits at the Moore Justice Center in Viera and at courthouses in Titusville and Melbourne
Circuit: Florida's Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
The firm's Satellite Beach office is next door, just north on A1A. See Satellite Beach office.

Other Brevard County cities

General information only, not legal advice. Every case depends on its own facts, and prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Indian Harbour Beach DUI questions

Very close. The firm's Satellite Beach office is next door, just north on A1A, at 1790 Highway A1A, Suite 209. That makes an in person meeting about an Indian Harbour Beach DUI practical, though case reviews by phone are also free and calls are answered at any hour.

It may be, depending on the records. Florida breath tests use the Intoxilyzer 8000 under FDLE regulation, and a 20 minute observation period is required first. The defense reviews the breath records and video from the Indian Harbour Beach Police Department to see whether those rules were followed. No outcome is automatic.

Indian Harbour Beach is in Brevard County, so the case is filed in Brevard County Court in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. The court then schedules each hearing at one of Brevard's courthouses, which are in Viera, Titusville and Melbourne. In many misdemeanor cases a lawyer can attend pretrial hearings for the client.

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