Jason Cerbone - DUI Defense Lawyer, Savannah, Georgia

INTERVIEWER: Can you recall an exact moment when you decided to become a lawyer?

JASON: No, I always wanted to be a crim­i­nal defense trial lawyer. I’m drawn to it like Sher­lock Holmes to a haunted house. Try­ing a DUI case in front of the jury is my favorite thing to do. I have to be in the court­room to be happy whether I get paid for it or not. And, I want to do it bet­ter than any­body has ever done it, which makes it an obses­sion. But, never feel as good as while try­ing a DUI case to the jury. But it has never got­ten any eas­ier to do and you can’t expect it to if you keep try­ing for some­thing bet­ter than you can do.

Meet Jason Cer­bone, the man who won three DUI license sus­pen­sion hear­ings in one day on April 5, 2012…

Stand­ing before the tes­ti­fy­ing police offi­cer, Jason looked the part: a win­ning attor­ney. More impor­tantly, he acted like one. After all, this was cross-examination - Jason’s specialty.

Since Jason knew the arrest pro­ce­dure hadn’t been fol­lowed in the DUI arrest, he wanted to get the offi­cer to admit it. But that’s never easy. So patiently,  per­sis­tently, Jason played a game of cat-and-mouse. Ques­tion after ques­tion, he calmly brought the police­man toward the goal.  Within min­utes, the offi­cer  admit­ted his vio­la­tion with­out even real­iz­ing it! That’s the power of cross-examination. It’s the dif­fer­ence between win­ning and los­ing a DUI case, between  acquit­tal and con­vic­tion. The police­man didn’t know he destroyed the prosecution’s case.  But the judge did.  And when Jason asked the judge to dis­miss the  DUI charges against Marty, he did.

Yet another case. Yet another win.

Some attor­neys ease into prac­tice; Jason jumped in head­long. Within his first seven months, he had han­dled nearly 70 crim­i­nal law cases, all of them felonies. He also achieved a major win in a high-profile rape trial. As an inte­gral part of the crim­i­nal defense team, Jason learned the power of an aggres­sive defense when he and his part­ners suc­ceeded in pulling off a hung jury, even though the odds were stacked against them.

Jason has never stopped learn­ing. Early on, he stud­ied under Terry Jack­son and Michael Schi­avone.  Later, he worked for the East­ern Judi­cial Cir­cuit Pub­lic Defender Office. There, Jason learned from Michael Edwards, whom he describes as among the most tal­ented crim­i­nal lawyers he has ever seen. He also worked at Brooks Law Firm and Cal­houn, Cer­bone & Sapp.  Ded­i­cat­ing him­self, Jason worked to mas­ter advanced tech­niques in cross-examination.

Jason has gained count­less wins in his time as a top-ranked DUI lawyer. He knows first­hand that the expert crim­i­nal attor­ney — the one will­ing to “lay it all on the line” — can expect to beat even the most intim­i­dat­ing crim­i­nal charges. Take Steven, who both stayed out of jail and kept his dri­ving priv­i­leges after Jason achieved dis­missals in 7 out of 10 mis­de­meanor charges! This is the kind of thing that Jason Cer­bone has accom­plished time and time again in his career.  It’s also the kind of thing Jason can and will do for you.

All in all, Jason’s com­mit­ment to a client’s defense is wholly unpar­al­leled. You will not find that kind of com­mit­ment any­where else. Dili­gently, Jason Cer­bone is ever work­ing to mas­ter the most cut­ting edge trial tech­niques, espe­cially those that achieve suc­cess in Geor­gia DUI cases. But most of all, Jason is sim­ply deter­mined beyond all mea­sure. He will move heaven and earth to win for his clients. That’s what they deserve, so that’s what he gives.

Jason Cer­bone is a DUI Defense Lawyer in Savan­nah, Geor­gia at Cer­bone DUI Defense.  He is NHTSA cer­ti­fied in DUI Detec­tion and Field Sobri­ety Test­ing. If you have been arrested for DUI in Savan­nah, Geor­gia call him up.

Even as a child, Jason dreamed of becom­ing the first-class trial lawyer he is today. The chal­lenge was in real­iz­ing that dream. So Jason started early. With a lawyer father, a court-reporter mother, and a Dis­trict Attor­ney uncle, Jason has always had Law in his blood. But nat­ural abil­ity was never enough for Jason Cer­bone. He sought excel­lence. Even as a kid, Jason would accom­pany his father to crim­i­nal court. Lis­ten­ing care­fully, he learned all he could about the art of court­room suc­cess. In this time, Jason learned a valu­able les­son — clients have to feel as if they are part of their own suc­cess. A client’s hap­pi­ness is of utmost impor­tance, espe­cially in DUI cases. That’s why Jason treats his clients as friends, not just busi­ness con­tacts. “Because when you’re work­ing for a friend,” Jason says, “it’s even more exhil­a­rat­ing to beat those DUI charges.”

License

State: Geor­gia

License sta­tus: Active Mem­ber in Good Standing

Year acquired: 2008

Mis­con­duct: No instances of pro­fes­sional misconduct

Work Expe­ri­ence

Crim­i­nal Defense Trial Lawyer at Cer­bone Law, 2007–2009

Law Clerk/Runner at Cal­houn, Cer­bone, & Sapp, 2005–2009

Crim­i­nal Trial Law Assis­tant at Cer­bone & Sapp, 2007–2008

Law Assis­tant Prac­tic­ing by Recent Law Grad­u­ate Act at East­ern Judi­cial Cir­cuit Pub­lic Defender, 2006–2007

Law Clerk at Brooks Law Firm, 2005

Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Intern­ship at Jack­son & Schi­avone, 2003

Law Clerk Run­ner at Cal­houn, Cer­bone, & Sapp, 1995–1999

Edu­ca­tion

Juris Doc­tor, 2006 Mis­sis­sippi Col­lege School of Law

B.A., 2003, Crim­i­nal Jus­tice, Uni­ver­sity of Georgia

B.A., 2003, Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Uni­ver­sity of Georgia

High School Diploma, 1997, Bene­dic­tine Mil­i­tary School

Awards

• Cer­tifi­cate Mas­ter­ing Sci­en­tific Evi­dence in DUI Cases for Jason Cer­bone, Savan­nah DUI Defense Lawyer, National Col­lege for DUI Defense and the Texas Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers Asso­ci­a­tion, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21–24, 2012Defense of Drink­ing Dri­vers Insti­tute, Insti­tute of Con­tin­u­ing Legal Edu­ca­tion in Geor­gia, Atlanta, Geor­gia Decem­ber 1–2, 2011DUI Boot Camp, The Geor­gia Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers and Allen Trapp, Atlanta, Geor­gia, Octo­ber 13–14, 2011
• Win­ning at Every Level, National 15th Annual DUI Means Defend With Inge­nu­ity Sem­i­nar,The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers & National Col­lege for DUI Defense, Las Vegas, Nevada, Cae­sars Palace Hotel, Sep­tem­ber 15–17, 2011
• Advanced DUI Trial Skills Sum­mer Ses­sion at Har­vard Law School by National Col­lege for DUI Defense, Cam­bridge, MA, July, 2011
• Geor­gia DUI Update, Atlanta, Geor­gia May 13, 2011
• Cer­tifi­cate Mas­ter­ing Sci­en­tific Evi­dence In DUI Cases for Jason Cer­bone spon­sored by the National Col­lege for DUI Defense and the Texas Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers Asso­ci­a­tion, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 14–16, 2011
• Breath Alco­hol Test­ing Train­ing for Legal Pro­fes­sion­als, Intro­duc­tory Course, Atlanta, Geor­gia, March 2011
• Breath Alco­hol Test­ing Train­ing for Legal Pro­fes­sion­als, Inter­me­di­ate Course, Atlanta, Geor­gia, March 2011
• Cer­tifi­cate for Suc­cess­fully Com­plet­ing DUI Detec­tion and Field Sobri­ety Test­ing for Jason Cer­bone Savan­nah DUI Lawyer, Atlanta, Geor­gia, Feb­ru­ary 2011
• Cer­tifi­cate of Com­ple­tion for Con­quer­ing Chem­i­cal Test­ing for Jason Cer­bone, Savan­nah, Geor­gia DUI Attor­ney, Atlanta, Geor­gia, Novem­ber 2010
• Cer­tifi­cate of Com­ple­tion of Overview of Drug Recog­ni­tion Expert Pro­gram for Jason Cer­bone, Savan­nah Geor­gia DUI Lawyer, Atlanta, Geor­gia, Novem­ber 2010
• Cer­tifi­cate of Com­ple­tion of Con­cepts of Stan­dard­ized Field Sobri­ety Test­ing for Jason Cer­bone, Savan­nah, Geor­gia DUI Lawyer, Atlanta, Geor­gia, Novem­ber 2010
• DUI Com­mu­ni­cat­ing Your Way to an Acquit­tal, National Col­lege of DUI Defense, National Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers, Cae­sars Palace Las Vegas, Nevada, Octo­ber 2010
• Using the Admin­is­tra­tive License Sus­pen­sion Hear­ing to Win at Trial, Atlanta, Geor­gia, 2009

Pro­fes­sional Associations

• National Col­lege for DUI Defense, Inc.
• National Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers
• Geor­gia Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers
• Savan­nah Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers
• Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Sec­tion of Amer­i­can Bar Association
• Crim­i­nal Law Sec­tion of State Bar of Georgia

Prac­tices

• DUI Defense

Places Admit­ted to Practice

• Supe­rior Court East­ern Judi­cial Cir­cuit, 2008
• Supreme Court of Geor­gia, 2009
• Court of Appeals of Geor­gia, 2008

 Publications

• What Makes a Win­ner — South Mag­a­zine Arti­cle by Jason Cer­bone DUI lawyer