Medical records are the evidentiary anchor of any DUI with injury case. Prosecutors subpoena hospital records to establish injury severity, causation, and treatment duration. Defense counsel subpoenas the same records to identify overstated diagnoses, pre-existing conditions, and treatment records that undermine great bodily harm classification. The chicagoduilawyer.net brand retains defense medical experts on any case where the injury classification is contested. Emergency room documentation is often written in defensive medicine language that overstates severity, and a defense expert can walk a judge or jury through the distinction between initial workup and actual clinical outcome that meets the statutory threshold.
