Tyler Law Firm, LLC

02/14/2025

Two big announcements! Tyler Law Firm was again selected by Georgia Super Lawyers for 2025 and voted Best of Gwinnett for 2024! A BIG THANKYOU to everyone who made this possible!

12/23/2024

I took a pro bono case where an innocent young woman was charged with three counts of violation of Gwinnett’s dog ordinances with a possible combined sentence of 18 months in jail and $3k in fines. Before I filed my entry in the case, the prosecution had offered to dismiss one count and give her fines and probation on the other two. I showed them proof of her complete innocence (and that the complainant was lying), but they still wanted her to enter a guilty plea to one count with a suspended fine. After we declined that offer and said we were ready for trial. the prosecutor dismissed all charges.

08/28/2024

DUIs are not always what you think. Sometimes the innocent are arrested through mistake or incompetence. I had a trial (not guilty) on a .035 BAC DUI (In Georgia, .05 or lower is legally presumed not to be impaired). The arresting officer had a 67-year-old, 100% disabled driver doing field sobriety evaluations in the pouring rain. And when she couldn’t successfully complete them, the officer arrested her for DUI. Fortunately, the driver agreed to voluntarily submit to the state-administered breath test. But the prosecutor still refused to dismiss the DUI charge. This wasn’t the first innocent driver I’ve represented after they were arrested for DUI because a physical disability caused them to be unsteady during field sobriety evaluations and the prosecutor refused to dismiss the DUI (even after the state-administered test proved they weren’t impaired). I suspect it won’t be the last.

08/28/2024

It’s that time again. Vote TLF!

08/28/2024

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Vote Tyler Law Firm, LLC in Suwanee, Georgia as Best of Gwinnett in Legal Services!

07/18/2023

A great big “Thank You!” to everyone who has made this happen. Go here to vote for us.

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03/16/2023

https://www.11alive.com/amp/article/news/crime/trials/gwinnett-county-delta-8-delta-10-prosecutions-georgia-supreme-court-ruling/85-5b5e1703-51a1-478f-a2a5-75c8b58a7e1f

The court vacated an earlier decision by a Fulton County court that placed an injunction on Gwinnett County prosecutions related to cannabinoid products.

03/04/2023

At the House Judicial Committee hearing on HR 321 yesterday, the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (“PAC”) inaccurately described the unanimous decision in Olevik v. State, 806 SE 2d 505, 302 Ga. 228 (2017) as a “new interpretation” of Georgia’s right against self-incrimination (as if Justices Nahmias, Peterson, and Boggs were judicial activists instead of the strict original constructionist they really are).
Olevik was no more a “new interpretation” of Georgia’s constitutional right against self incrimination than the Court’s decision in Williams v. State, 771 S.E.2d 373 (2015) was a new interpretation of the right against unreasonable search and seizure. I know because I was the attorney who argued both Williams and Olevik before the Georgia Supreme Court.
What the Court did in both Olevik and Williams was to UNANIMOUSLY overturn wrongly decided cases which had created a “DUI exception to our Constitution” that I had wondered about from the time I was a rookie cop and which, it turns out, never should have existed in the first place. Having lost before the Supreme Court, PAC now seeks, with the deceptively worded HR321, to eliminate a constitutional right for all Georgians which we’ve held since before Georgia even had a constitution. SMH

03/03/2023

“The two provisions of the constitution [the right against unreasonable search and seizure and the right against compelled self-incrimination] which we have been discussing appear in the fundamental law of every State of this Union, as well as in the Federal constitution. They are the sacred civil jewels which have come down to us from an English ancestry, forced from the unwilling hand of tyranny by the apostles of personal liberty and personal security. They are hallowed by the blood of a thousand struggles, and were stored away for safe-keeping in the casket of the constitution. It is infidelity to forget them; it is sacrilege to disregard them; it is despotic to trample upon them. They are given as a sacred trust into the keeping of the courts, who should with sleepless vigilance guard these priceless gifts of a free government. We hear and read much of the lawlessness of the people. One of the most dangerous manifestations of this evil is the lawlessness of the ministers of the law. This court knows and fully appreciates the delicate and difficult task of those who are charged with the duty of detecting crime and apprehending criminals, and it will uphold them in the most vigilant legal discharge of all their duties, but it utterly repudiates the doctrine that these important duties can not be successfully performed without the use of illegal and despotic measures. It is not true that in the effort to detect crime and to punish the criminal, `the end justifies the means.' This is especially not true when the means adopted are violative of the very essence of constitutional free government. Neither the liberty of the citizen nor the sanctity of his home should be invaded without legal warrant. Suspicion is no substitute for a legal warrant, and the badge of authority is the emblem of law and order and gives no right to the wearer to arrest without warrant, imprison without authority, and torture without mercy."
Underwood v. State, 13 Ga. App. 206, 213 (78 SE 1103) (1913)

03/01/2023

The Tyler Law Firm has moved to
The Crossing at Three Bridges
4411 Suwanee Dam Road
Suite 120
Suwanee, Georgia 30024

We provide free initial consultation by appointment.

03/01/2023

Rated by our peers as one of Georgia's Super Lawyer since 2016.

03/01/2023

TLF is sending out a BIG THANK YOU to all of our clients and fellow attorneys who voted for us!