Whether you are seeking an attorney to defend you against a drunken driving charge or a more severe criminal felony, you will continually find Attorney Tracey A. Wood at the forefront. She is known throughout the legal community as the foremost authority on Wisconsin OWI DUI laws and defenses and hailed for her successful trial and case record. A repeated Super Lawyers® honoree, Attorney Tracey Wood has been pioneering new frontiers for women in law since she entered practice in 1992. She is Wisconsin’s first attorney ever appointed as a Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor, first ever Wisconsin attorney – male or female – to be appointed to the Board of Regents to the National College for DUI Defense, the only criminal and DUI defense attorney named to Madison’s Top 25 Attorneys, the only criminal and drunk driving defense lawyer named to the Top 25 Women in Law in Wisconsin and repeatedly named to Madison’s Best Criminal Defense Lawyers. Attorney Tracey Wood chairs the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Strike Force for the state’s largest association for criminal defense lawyers for which she is the immediate past president. Tracey has authored several articles on defense against drunk driving charges including Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions, contributed to the infamous DUI attorneys’ bible by Taylor & Oberman, entitled DUI Defense.
Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2011
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Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2007
Top 25 Madison Area Super Lawyers
Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2011
Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2010
Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2009
Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2008
Sympathy for the Defendant
Tracey Wood is energetic, optimistic, and represents ‘the most hated’ defendants
Admitted: 1993, Wisconsin
Professional Webpage: www.vanwagnerwood.com/Bio/TraceyWood.asp
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Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions
Prior to November 1, 2000, attorneys in Wisconsin were able to collaterally attack prior operating while under the influence (OWI) convictions if there were any true defects in the plea hearings of those prior convictions. See State v. Foust, 214 Wis. 2d 568, 570 N.W.2d 905 (Ct. App. 1997); State v. Baker, 169 Wis. 2d 49, 485 N.W. 2d 237 (1992). In November of 2000, however, the Wisconsin Supreme Court changed the rules when it decided State v. Hahn, 238 Wis. 2d 889, 618 N.W. 2d 528 (2000). With the Hahn decision, Wisconsin law now tracks federal law in severely limiting challenges to old convictions.

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