What Happens If You Are Arrested for Drunk Driving

Addiction & Recovery Substance Abuse
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Going to Court Is Just the First Step
If you have been arrested for drunk driving for the first time, you may be wondering what is going to happen next and what you will have to do. If this was not your first drunken driving offense, you may find that consequences have changed since your last arrest.

The penalties and requirements for drunken driving vary somewhat from state to state, but due to the effort of advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, all 50 states have passed laws intended to crackdown on drunk driving by increasing penalties and consequences.

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I guess it does depend on what state,

In Michigan, you will loose your licence for the first offense.
The first thing that happens is You will go to the county jail. Immediately. If you can't afford to pay the bail. which is about $6,000 (You will most likely stay in jail until your court hearing). Which could be from a couple of days to a couple of months depending on the docket.

Wife, kids, job, meds dont mean anything. you can beg, plead, explain or what ever you want. It's a waste of time. Your person XXXXXXXX-XX-0. and they are just flowing the rules.
If ya been accused of this. then until we can prove different. You get this.

If you think there are extenuating circumstances or that you can explain it. Then you probably watch too much TV. Once you have been accused in writing. you have no say. Even in court. unless you want to wait (in jail) for a trial, which could take just under 1 year before they have no choice but to send you to federal prison. and if you get that far which is very uncommon. Along the way you will be coerced to say your guilty even if your not. just so you can get out.

But if you do actually get that far. You better have a really expensive privately hired attorney to get 10 minutes of consideration. which by the way you still have no say your attorney talks for you, like it or not.

Oh and even highly paid attorneys don't usually answer their phone. If your exceptionally lucky, You may get 1 phone call per day, And if your attorney does accept your call You will be billed for that time, even though most likely you will accomplish very little if anything.

If you call anyone else. Before you can even speak, they will be informed by a recording that the call is coming from a correctional facility. mean while wile people who have never even seen you are deciding your fate, and You won't know anything about court dates or any of that until the day before it happens.

You may think think your just regular guy and this is exceptionally harsh. Well it is exceptionally harsh.

But in most cases that's exactly how it works. Follow the law cuz you don't want to go there.