"Mr. Crawford has been nothing but helpful in my case"
I, unfortunately, had the pleasure of passing through Walton County late one night after working an event in Athens. I pulled up to a DUI checkpoint and since I had no prior knowledge of the best way to respond in a checkpoint, I consented to a breathalyzer and blew a .086. The Walton County Officers high-fived and I went to jail. Fast forward to when I needed to hire a lawyer, I read some great reviews about Mr. Crawford and after striking out with other lawyers due to their costs being so astronomical, I decided to give him a call. He was extremely informative over the phone, making sure that he was extremely clear of my options and the odds of the gamble/politics that I was currently engulfed. He was very attentive to my situations and always responded with sincere kindness and empathy regarding my predicament. Due to my work and family schedule, it was very hard to find a court date that worked. Eric was able to push my court date back approximately 5-6 months in order to find a date that worked for me. Once we were in court together, he worked out a deal with the prosecutor and the best they were willing to give me was a reduction to reckless driving. At first, a few terms were extremely difficult for me to achieve. They wanted me to spend a Saturday doing community service back at the jail and take a DUI course Friday thru Sunday. Almost all of my Friday through Sundays consist of working several jobs 12-15 hours of each day. If I can’t work on a Saturday, it doesn’t go over so well with my employer. Eric was able to speak to the judge and switch my DUI course to a Defensive Driving course which could be taken during the week M-F, was only one day in class instead of three and where the costs were much cheaper than the DUI course. He also was able to get the judge to swap my one day of community service for an additional 8 hours added to my 40-hour community service sentencing. The best news in this debacle is that with me having completed all requirements within the first 5 months of probation, Eric was able to get the judge to terminate my probation after 6 months. Mr. Crawford has been nothing but helpful in my case and has always been extremely quick to respond to my emails. He, like me, is extremely hard to get on the phone with our schedule, but I had full confidence that although we didn’t speak much outside of email, he was always following through with what he promised. Unfortunately, I was not in the best of situations like some of his other clients where the police acted incorrectly and as a result the case was dropped, but Eric did the absolute best he could do within the case and the result was much better than it possibly could have been if I had represented myself out there. Thanks so much, Mr. Crawford for taking my case.
- Zachary
