Framingham Massachusetts DUI Lawyer Paul B. Watkins is a former police officer who has years of both drunk driving defense and police experience. As a police officer, he responded to and investigated crimes, accidents, and emergencies; issued citations; conducted motor vehicle stops, and made a large number of DUI arrests. He testified in District and Superior Courts in Massachusetts and in the U.S. District Court for the First District of Massachusetts. He also served on a federal United States Drug Enforcement Administration Taskforce. 

After retiring as a police officer, due to an on-duty which he sustained while making an arrest, Paul became a Framingham MA DUI defense lawyer. As a police officer, he received specialized training and experience in detecting and arresting drivers who were under the influence. As a DUI defense lawyer, he puts that training and experience to work for his clients. He has been trained, tested, and certified in field sobriety testing, administering breath tests, and in DUI detection and enforcement. Also, he is one of the very few Framingham Mass OUI defense lawyers who has been certified to detect those operating under the influence of drugs by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee. Due to his training and certification is a Massachusetts Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), he serves as a resource to defense lawyers throughout Massachusetts. He regularly reviews DUI reports and consults with other Mass. DUI lawyers regarding their cases. Paul’s police experience has given him the remarkable ability to spot flaws, defects, and holes in operating under the influence cases. He has used this ability to get DUI charges dismissed and to obtain not guilty verdicts for his drunk driving clients. He is also a master at cross examining police officers regarding their actions and inactions in DUI cases.

He has trained other DUI lawyers on effective cross-examination techniques in cases involving driving under the influence. He has also consulted with numerous attorneys regarding street-level use and distribution of narcotics, police investigation, police procedures, and cases charging driving under the influence of drugs or liquor. Attorney Watkins is one the few Mass. lawyers who has been wualified as an expert in street-level narcotics use and distribution in Massachusetts Superior Courts.