my mother in law got arrested for a dui at home after leaving a hit and run?
She has had two previous duis told officers that she did not drink until she got home which is not true. Refused to take any tests for alcohol level told them when they came out thirty minutes after wreck that she went home and drank and that she was drunk. They arrested her for dui and hit and ru...
She has had two previous duis told officers that she did not drink until she got home which is not true. Refused to take any tests for alcohol level told them when they came out thirty minutes after wreck that she went home and drank and that she was drunk. They arrested her for dui and hit and run. Will this stick?
In many states, refusal to take sobriety tests is grounds for termination or suspension of driving privileges. If there are witnesses to the accident (and there must be since someone got the plate number), she will likely be convicted in criminal court and forced to repay the injured parties for the damages she caused to the people and property in the accident. Further, if the court finds her story unbelievable, she can be charged with DUI as well. She needs a lawyer.
I don’t know true or not but hit&run is heartless and should be treated as criminal offense.
She needs to contact an attorney as soon as possible,the cops most likely felt that she fled the scene because she had been drinking and she also refused to take any tests which doesn’t help her case much at all,it looks bad because she wasn’t cooperating.
I’m not sure how this will turn out. If she hadn’t left the scene of the accident and refused the tests on the scene…she would be charged with DUI, highest rate. A refusal equals guilty. Since she left the scene of the accident,she will most likely still be charged with DUI, highest rate of alcohol (for refusal) even if she really had not had a drink until after she got home. They make laws like this for this reason! People will try and say anything to get out of a DUI, so they make it difficult.
No. Even if they couldn’t make the DUI stick (which they can…nobody goes from sober to drunk in 30 minutes)…she’s still looking at hit and run…and with two previous DUIs on her record…well, let’s just say she’s probably going to be doing some pretty hefty jail time. Here in Michigan a third DUI offense is a felony.
Sounds like ma-in-law needs some time at the cross-bar hotel. Any money you spend on a lawyer is less money you get to send her in the slam for her commissary.
She’s worked hard to go to prison. Why deny her just reward?
Yes, the charges will stick. Hopefully she will be sentenced to prison for a year or so of "dry out" time. If the other drivers in your area are really lucky, her driving privileges will be revoked for life.
Hit and run, Injure or kill someone? Destroy the property of another person?