Ventura DUI Attorney Jennifer Zide

01/06/2023

Back in black ~ prevented remand of client today! Happy New Year to all our clients of new year’s past, present, and future! Your freedom is our business 🥳

07/30/2022

Snapshot from a Thursday July 28, 2022
But as Einstein says, "time is an illusion ~ albeit a very persistent one." Enjoy your summer & call us if you need help! Your freedom is our business... We see you 🙂

07/26/2022

We got a Dropped High Blood Alcohol Content Special Allegation today for a client in a First Offense Driving Under the Influence case in Ventura County through our dedication to advocating for our clients! The benefits of a dropped special allegation range from a lesser conviction on your record, to a driver's education class that is less expensive and less burdensome on time (3 months vs 9 months), to less points on your license, to less time in jail or work release! We are happy to help in your case as well! Give us a call to discuss all your options!

06/29/2022

Our office is reopening at our new location at 770 County Square Dr. Suite 104 tomorrow morning! Come visit us...

06/07/2022

Today, I am personally voting for Eric Nasarenko for D.A. He was always very pleasant and reasonable to deal with on cases. When he was on the city council, I also did a presentation to them about the destruction of a monarch habitat, including some steps that Ventura could take to help the butterflies, along the lines of Amsterdam, with going organic and planting pollinator~friendly plants in public spaces, and I felt he listened. Even though Ventura as a city has not yet implemented the possibilities of a city~wide pro~pollinator plan (which could help make us the greenest city on the Central Coast), as a citizen of Ventura, I appreciated the sincere attention of the council and their vote to at least look into that one case of habitat destruction. In all my interactions with candidate for Ventura County District Attorney Eric Nasarenko, I have personally appreciated his civility, professionalism, and his lack of personalizing any conflict between the “sides” ~ especially since in Ventura that is not always the case. The places where I have most enjoyed representing clients in the past are Mendocino County, Santa Barbara County, and even SLO County, largely because of the different vibe of the courts there as far as civility and also conveying that some value is placed on the individual in the system ~ in contrast to some of the pervasive themes in Ventura and the experience of dealing with (some) D.A.s and the system~holders here. The “sides” don’t have to hate each other; D.A.s should care about Justice in their own way, while we as defense attorneys are charged with defending personal freedom and seeking Justice on an individual level ~ that state of being where a person is not oppressed by her or his government and is actually seen. Without losing our “edge,” there are also times when we can work together towards Justice and progress, especially in chances to prioritize treatment and even some compassion over systemic incarceration. I feel like we could all have a better life experience, as fellow lawyers and as Venturans, with Eric Nasarenko in as D.A.

05/25/2022

You’re welcome to visit our new office at 770 County Square Dr., Suite 104, Ventura, CA 93003 www.Zidelaw.com

09/17/2021

We all made it through a challenging pandemic year plus! What we thought would be a couple months of confinement and limitations transmuted into an ongoing change of lifestyle. For me, this period challenged our ability to maintain and grow human connections, to reevaluate what was going to be a source of happiness in our lives, to look for the possibility of increased flexibility and freedom in our work/ life experience, while simultaneously highlighting inequities in our healthcare system and in people’s chances in life in general. For instance, we expect those with less money and less opportunity to literally put their lives on the line for some other group of us, taking on high risk work/ life roles in this pandemic. During this period, I also had a baby and became a single mom. My office has not yet reopened at our new location; I’m taking a couple more months. But I wanted to post to everyone to hang in there and live your life. As Tom Petty says, love is a long, long road. How can we love the lives we live, right now, and create more freedom and more happiness for ourselves and for others ~ not to mention, more justice? This is what is on my mind lately. “All you need is love” ~ as the Beatles say ~ in one of the baby’s favorite songs. Let’s push pause for one moment to have a moment of love for each other and for the world, for everyone.

05/15/2019

Please stay tuned for future installments to empower you in the system...

In our last article, we addressed the issue of whether the officer has a legal basis to stop you, as far as the driving pattern observed or any other basis to justify stopping you. It is only when the stop is legal, either based on a driving pattern allegedly supporting impairment or based on a …

05/15/2019

Our latest blog installments about protecting your freedom when stopped for a DUI:

From Traffic Stop to DUI Arrest: A Five Part Series The goal of this series is to empower people through information about a DUI stop and arrest in Ventura County. Why, you may ask, before we get into the details? Because, at the Law Office of Jennifer Zide in Ventura, we care about your rights …

04/04/2019

.09% or close to legal limit DUI? To effectively protect your rights, you need be aware that there could be a number of problems with the case against you. Issue areas include incomplete drinking information which makes it impossible for the prosecution to prove blood alcohol content at point of driving, machine issues ranging from maintenance to accuracy in reading samples, the inherent limitations and deficiencies surrounding the roadside exercises labeled “field sobriety tests,” and deficiencies in the officer investigation. At the Law Office of Jennifer Zide, we challenge all assumptions, erroneous labels, and authority, to defend the case against you. Justice is preventing our clients from being dehumanized and ground down by the system. Our goal is to empower our clients and to help them move past obstacles, toward freedom. We stand by you all the way.