OTHER DUI/DWI RESOURCES

Allen Trapp is a magna cum laude graduate of the college of law at Georgia State University and is one of only four attorneys in the State of Georgia board certified by the National College for DUI Defense.

Mr. Trapp is the only attorney in west Georgia who has taken the NHSTA 24-hour Standardized Field Sobriety Testing course, attended a Drug Recognition Expert course, and owns an Intoxilyzer 5000, the breath testing machine used by the police all across Georgia.

Mr. Trapp is a frequent lecturer on legal subjects at the State University of West Georgia, various civic groups, and even police agencies. He is also a three-time graduate of the advanced course "Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases." He is frequently called upon to speak at continuing legal education seminars where he shares with other attorneys his expertise in defending DUI cases.

Some of Allen Trapp's presentations include:

Urgent Legal Matters, St. Simons Island, Georgia, September 4, 2009.
Topic: Urgent Legal Matters in DUI Cases.

Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association: DUII Seminar, University of Wyoming Conference Center, Laramie, Wyoming, June 5, 2008.
Topic: Field Sobriety Testing: The NHTSA Numbers They Don't Want You to Know (Including Update on NHTSA's 2007 Study, "The Robustness of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus.")

GACDL DUI Boot Camp, Macon, Georgia, October 12, 2007.
Topic: Demolishing Police Testimony about SFST Reliability and Accuracy

Mastering Scientific Evidence, Dallas, Texas. April 19, 2007.
Topic: Field Sobriety Tests: NHTSA Numbers...And Now for the Rest of the Story (Updated).

Handling Administrative Drivers License Suspensions and Revocations, Atlanta, Georgia. February 15, 2007.
Topic: Case Law Update: Where Would We Be Without our Appellate Courts?

Defense of Drinking Drivers Institute: December 7, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
Topic: Field Sobriety Tests: NHTSA Numbers...And Now for the Rest of the Story.

National College for DUI Defense Summer Session, Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 21, 2006.
Topic: Cross-examination of the Arresting Officer on Walk and Turn and One Leg Stand.

National College for DUI Defense Summer Session, Cambridge, Massachusetts. July 20, 2006.
Topic: Cross-examination of the Arresting Officer on HGN (horizontal gaze nystagmus).

Handling Administrative Drivers License Suspensions and Revocations, Atlanta, Georgia. February 17, 2005.
Topic: Interstate License Suspension Issues.

Defense of Drinking Drivers Institute, Atlanta, Georgia. December 16, 2004/
Topic: Significant New Georgia Case Law.

Georgia DUI Update, Atlanta, Georgia. May 14, 2004.
Topic: Thirty Cases from Other Jurisdictions That Will Help you Win DUI Cases.

Georgia DUI Law Update, Atlanta, Georgia. May 2, 2003.
Topic: Twenty Driver’s License Issues that all DUI Attorneys Must Know.

Handling Administrative License Suspensions and Revocations, Atlanta, Georgia.
August 23, 2002.
Topic: Representing the Out-of-State Licensee.

Defense of Drinking Drivers Institute, Atlanta, Georgia. December 7, 2001.
Topic: Cross-examination of the Arresting Officer.

Mr. Trapp has obtained non-DUI dispositions in approximately two-thirds of his DUI cases. He has, therefore, become the GO TO GUY FOR DUI in west Georgia. Mr. Trapp is currently involved in a frontal attack on virtually every aspect of the shameful breath testing system in place in Georgia, and those challenges will be heard by the Supreme Court of Georgia in the near future. Within the past year he has proven that the Division of Forensic Sciences was not inspecting the Intoxilyzer 5000 in accordance with their own approved methods, which led to a change in the inspection protocol.

Mr. Trapp also handles other criminal matters and achieved considerable local fame when his client was acquitted of murder and arson following an eight-day trial approximately five years ago. You can read more about this case in Other Cases of Interest. A majority of our non-DUI criminal cases are drug cases. With the Villa Rica Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, and other agencies targeting out-of-state drivers on I-20, we are representing more and more out-of-state motorists who have been arrested for drug offenses on this stretch of highway.

Email: amtjr@att.net