what kind of plea agreements are my options for my second offense dui charge?
The judge ordered me to wear the scram bracelet for 30 days after i had went to my arraignment. My sentencing court date is this weeks. Will he leave the scram bracelet on me or send me to jail? ...
The judge ordered me to wear the scram bracelet for 30 days after i had went to my arraignment. My sentencing court date is this weeks. Will he leave the scram bracelet on me or send me to jail?
How about stop drinking and driving before you kill someone? I am ZERO TOLERANCE when it comes to DUI. Hope you spend some time in jail.
We can only hope.
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how many people should lose their life before you get convicted?
Were you convicted on plea or on post-trial verdict? What charge? In NY, a 2nd DWI w/i a certain time following another DWI is a felony punishable by state prison. You really need to specify what jurisdiction your in and what charge. The judge usually imposes a sentence based on (among other stuff) a pre-sentence report compiled (in NY by the Dept. of Probation) by the sentence date.
If you were convicted after trial, expect near the maximum. Judge’s hate to give the maximum because it guarantees that the accused will appeal based on excessive punishment. It’s harder to call a sentence excessive when it’s not the maximum. It will be high because DWI’s are particularly despised. Drug dealers shoot other drug dealers; angry spouses shoot philandering spouses; geeks shoot their bullies – innocents get caught in the crossfire, but for drunk drivers, there is no target, and we’re all in the crossfire. Also, no judge wants to be seen soft on a guy who will appear on next month’s newspapers after having mowed down another family of 92.
If you were convicted on plea, then you have a plea bargain. The bargain will be enforced like a contract – if you don’t get the benefit of the promise, you can get your plea back (but you then have to go to trial or get another deal). if the judge holds up his end of the bargain but you don’t, you are stuck with your plea, and you face the maximum.
If you took your plea on an open promise – leaving it to the judge’s discretion, you will need to consider your criminal record, the facts of this and your last DWI case and probably some other sundry details I can’t think of. Don’t beg for mercy for your family’s sake – you showed the court and the world what you think of your family when you got rearrested, and anyway, they’re not on trial – you are.
I hope they make you wear the bracelet and send you to jail. Quit being a selfish criminal and grow up.
My god people are judgmental…go ahead give me the old thumbs down. I don’t drink, but I do work for a crim. defense attorney. DUI has turned into big business and no matter what punishment is handed down, hardcore drunk drivers are not going to quit. They always find a way to beat the system. Sending someone to jail for a long period of time for driving drunk a 2nd time is ridiculous. Most of our clients who do 60 or 90 days on work release, report that jail is really not all that unpleasant. Why would this deter a drunk driver? Forcing them to treatment and AA is not gonig to stop them either. The whole system needs an overhaul. The only thing that will stop repeat offenders is prohibition. You can’t wear a SCRAM forever, you can’t be put in jail forever…even vehicular manslaughter is out in 3 years with good time. There are no easy answers, but I defy most of these people who are so quick to judge to tell me they’ve never ever driven a car after any amount of alcohol consumed. Sickening, because they’re probably the same people who yack on the cell phone, flip you off as they fly past you, weave in and out of traffic, speed and commit road rage. Why aren’t you angry with them? Because many of you who sit in judgment ARE them.