California DUI please help me if you have any experience

What did you blow? If it's barely over .08 and it's your first offense, your public defender might be able to get it reduced to a misdemeanor negligent driving. My husband's son from his first marriage has been arrested for DUI 3 or 4 times in the past 3 years. He finally had to do one day in jail for the last one. You're in a liberal city. You should be ok. Don't drink and drive anymore. The police will remember you and pull you over again if they see you late at night, even if you're not doing anything wrong.

 

My first DUI was a breeze compared to the second. You won't know exactly what's going to happen until you get your charges from your hearing but I can tell you that you will most likely have your license suspended for a month or three then have to do a 3 month DUI program (it was HART back where I was from and at that time 2006) and might have to do community service hours and /or AA meetings. You may be put on what's called "informal probation" meaning you might have random drug tests but not as often as you would on regular probation and you don't have to meet with an officer every week. I was put on regular probation because of my BAC level and unmentionables found on my person.

A lawyer might help reduce the sentence to a wet n wreckless which would be really clutch as it's easier to get off your driving record, takes less time than regular DUI shit to get the license back and your fines are much cheaper too. I'm not really up to par on the new DUI laws as stated earlier I got my first in 06. The second I got a year later.

The real key here OP is to be thankful that neither you nor your girl were harmed. I hope you get through this quickly dude and I hope you never get another one because that is an entirely different ball game.

 

You do not have to have your miranda rights read to you to be arrested. I thought so at 1 time but upon consulting several attorneys after an arrest found out that was wrong. I've had 3 duis went 13 years before getting my shit together and my license back. I very highly doubt they'll dismiss it. You fkd up, be a man and accept the consequences

 

Not much else you can do, other than call Saul .. stay quiet, and let him do all the talking.

 

Wax pretty much said it all.

Just to add, it's gonna be pretty expensive.

Best of luck.

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This is why you never argue in public
It draws unwanted attention to yourself

 

Forgot to mention, my step son got a deferred prosecution on the first one. He had to do what Wax did plus he had to pay rent on a breathalyzer machine that was installed in his car for 3 to 6 months. I think it was just 3 months for the first one, but he's put us through this so many times I can't remember all the finer details about each DUI. It was over $100 a month. I remember one time he blew into it and the car wouldn't start. He had gargled with mouthwash moments before. The machine records everything and detects even minimal amounts of alcohol.

 

I had a breathalyzer for a year before getting my license back. If you have to have 1 hopefully you dont, and are allowed to choose where to get it, do your research. There definetly are easier ones to use and the price range is vast. I had an intox-a-lock it wasn't bad to operate and only $70 a month plus 1 time install price. My buddy paid $140 a month plus all kinds of calibration fees, maintenence bs and then to top it off had to hum while administering the test...lol ya hum. Like it's not embarrassing enough to be sitting at a stop light with a hot chick in the next car and you have to blow into a machine, he had to also hummmmm fairly loud while doing it lol. I got to where I could hide it behind a Styrofoam cup in such situations. So it looked like I was drinking out of a straw. Some people made cups the device fit in.

 

I was in Cali yes but can't remember exactly the total costs I think it was somewhere between 3000-5000$ after all my fines and class fees. As for the second.. shit I know it was well over 11,000$ after all was said and done. Im not sure if im counting the property damage or not for either.

 

Yes property damage, vehicle expenses and probation added in there.

here i got this from google:

"The maximum penalties for a misdemeanor first DUI conviction in California is a $1,000 fine plus over $2,600 in penalty assessments, six months' imprisonment in the county jail, a six-month license suspension ; ten months for blood alcohol level of 0.15% or more, having your vehicle “impounded” (stored at your expense) ..."

source: California DUI: What are the Penalties? | DrivingLaws.org

Keep in mind the above paragraph is for the Maximum penalties. Click that link my dude, should give you some good answers on what to expect should u even get charged with a dui instead of a wet n wreckless.

 

Probation and dwi's are a joke
It's all about that money
Getting it from you
And funding from the state
The more people that get arrested, the more funding the cops can ask for

 

Don't worry. Self-driving cars will make drunk-driving legal again.

 

Doubtfully Google cars and such have to be manned by a compitent licensed sober awake driver.