I would like to first thank you for even reading my story. Ok, so this is how it started, about a month ago i was driving out of san jose area heading back to 880 north and got pulled over by a cop because i had no license plates on my car, but the car was registered and all that. The officer asked me few questions about the license plate and his buddy officer on the right hand side asked me if i had any drinks, and i said yes around 11:pm at a bar in san jose, and this is now 2: pm.. So i stepped out of the car and did all the practices they made me to do so.. I was 100% active and completed all the chores without hesitation.. Any way long story short they locked me for 6 hours and took my license.. I called DMV withing the 10 days of hearing and the DMV hearing department issued my license until the "June 10 2011".. I the breathalyzer showed .09 and so did the blood test.. Please tell me what i should do???My court date is coming on the 8th of this month.. Should i plead guilty or should i plead not guilty?? If any one has gone through this situation before, then i would love to hear back from you.. I am a full time student and it would be very hard for me to face the charges and timing.. Thanks you so much for reading..
Thanks everyone but this is my offense…

I am going through a divorce and it’s really miserable at home as we are still under the same roof. After work, I stopped at CVS and bought a big bottle of rum and 2 2-ltr bottles of diet coke. I was planning on going home, but decided I wasn’t up to a fight. I pulled into a parking lot near my home and called a friend. While sitting and talking I made a couple of drinks. I knew that I would be walking home when the rain stopped. After sitting a couple of hours, cops appeared and proceeded to arrest me for DUI.

I don’t want any of my family members to know about this. I am awaiting a job transfer to Houston. I need to deal with this in a timely manner.

What is the best way to handle this?

So here’s the backstory-
I do have a couple BS DUI’s in my past. One of them is legit, and I am a man and I can admit when I’m wrong, and I was way too hammered to drive on that one, and I took like like a man. The other two are complete crap and both times I passed the field sobriety tests, didn’t violate any traffic laws, cops were both d*cks, and I blew over the limit. Those two were 0.16 and 0.19 respectively, so it’s not like I was twisted drunk or anything either. So yeah, those two don’t count in my book, and the third one does (I’m not even telling you what I blew that night), and now I’m gonna be fighting one more.

So this latest one was Saturday night and I just got out of county the other day for it. Me and some of my boys went down to 4 bars, and ended at Tattle Tails show club and I knew I had to drive home, so the whole night I stuck to only beer except for just at the strip club because they had shots and beers, so guess what? Anyone in their right mind would take 4 shots instead of one beer for the same price.

I left Tattle’s and I distinctly remember walking back to my truck because I was doing the little field sobriety stuff- walk a straight line, say the ABC’s backwards (which would come in handy later) and all those usual things that everyone does when they’re about to drive after having a few drinks. So I know I wasn’t really drunk because I remember all of this clearly. Anyway, I headed home and I watched my speed, drove straight, and I was really careful. But before I knew it, I saw the cherries in my rear view. Pig pulled me over and said I was using too much of the road and I crossed the double yellow (both lies). I didn’t have a license, so I told him a bouncer took it at the bar. He must’ve not believed me because he quickly made me do the field sobriety test (which I KNOW I passed with flying colors) and then I blew a 0.26.

I’m gonna try to fight this one on several reasons-
1. When I got to the jail, they tested me again at 0.21, so clearly their meters are broken if they read that far apart.
2. I know I passed all the field sobriety tests
3. I didn’t violate any traffic laws
4. Pig had no probably cause for breathalizing me
5. Personal assurance that I wasn’t drunk at the time
6. Witnesses who will testify that I wasn’t that drunk when they last saw me
7. No way I was that drunk that night on JUST beer which never gets me drunk.
8. Receipts showing that I only drank 9 beers that night in like 4 hours.

OK, basically I need a good CHEAP lawyer who knows who to talk to and what strings to pull. I’ve got a wife who is leaving me and trying to get sole custody of our 3 kids, and she wants support on all 3 to the tune of 0 a kid per month (yeah right, you’ll see a penny of that money, sweetie). And my mom bailed me out, which she has several times, but this time she wants me to pay her back. I’m in the music industry (hip hop) and I am currently shopping a record deal that could blow up at any point, but I CAN’T be locked up when that drops.

I’ve got another suit about racism playing a part in my not getting signed yet. My mom can’t get her money paid back because I’m white? That’s real fair. So this lawyer my get a 2 for 1, so to speak if the money is right. I’ve got a good girlfriend with good credit, and I can’t be in lockup. I know theres plenty a cats out there that have 4 DUI’s and they walked, so I gotta make this happen, and I’m looking for some help.

Anybody know a good lawyer who knows who to pay, who’s back to scratch, that sort of thing? I dont like doing this, but I’ll buy my way out of this one if I have to. I’ll sell my Camaro, whatever it takes. I’m not going back to county.

Im in the process of fighting it now in court, its been about a year ago and regret ever driving. And honestly i had three drinks.

I’ve spoke with people who say their attorneys did nothing for them regarding their DUI
My blood results returned 0.06, but I was also written up for an open container because I had a grocery bag of food and drinks from my hotel room visit and I had an open bottle of vodka. I was leaving town with my suitcase etc. I was not drinking in my car! I have a small trunk (pt cruiser) couldnt fit all my items in trunk area. Yes now I know I should have put suitcase in car and grocery bag in the trunk because of the open unsealed bottle. I thought officer was just giving me a warning….not so he wrote me up to build his case. Do I need an attorney? Can a Public Defender help me if I plead NOT Guilty ?

I was drinking early that night about, 2 drinks. I know my limit, I know the law. Under 0.08 and I had no reason to believe I was over 0.08 so I assumed It was safe to drive. I was driving home when I decided to take a short cut. A cop was parked on the opposite side of the street from several clubs/bars. I decided to turn on the street opposite to where he was parked instead of going straight since I already had my signals on when I realized there was a cop parked there so I didn’t want to be bait. I knew as I was turning the cop saw me, I knew I had every possibility of getting pulled over so I obeyed the law, so that I wouldn’t give him a petty reason to pull me over. He didn’t follow me to see if I was breaking any laws, he caught up to me at a stop sign and turned his lights on. I put my car in park assuming he was after me. He got out and said “that he would catch me at the stop sign.“ He asked for my license, as I was handing him my license he told me that he was on the look out for someone. IMO he was not telling the truth because of the way he kept described me and my vehicle. He made it sound like he was only slightly off. He asked where I was coming from, I really didn’t want to tell him, in order to avoid the question about if I had been drinking. I kept going on about him getting the description completely wrong, and bluntly said that I though he was lying.. and that next time he should get the description right unless he was color blind. (I wasn’t giving him “attitude,” I sort of found it funny) He asked If I had been drinking. I told him the truth. He ran a couple of tests on me. I ended up doing the test no problem, I got back in my car and he ran the eye test on me about 5 times before he went back to his car bought out a breathalyser. I’m not sure how much I blew roadside but back at the station which is not more then 5 mins away I blew somewhere around a 0.039. Which probably makes it impossible for me to be over the 0.08 mark?

I’m a very realistic person. I have nothing against him but realistically speaking I think that this his intentions were not the same for pulling me over as he says it was. His probable cause was what was radioed to him that night, which, if I had the chanced to look though what really happened that night on his shift, It would be recoded somewhere and IMO there would be nothing recoded in that regard about a suspicious vehicle/person at the time he was pulling me over.

I feel that what he did was a rookie move, a boring night mixed with a little bit of discrimination (the fact that im young, out at 2am on a Saturday night) is what gave him a reason pull me over.

I guess my question is since this feels so petty I really don’t feel like spending $$$’s on a lawyer so what are the chances I could get this DWI thrown out by representing myself?
Since when Is being below 0.08, with no probable cause breaking the law?

i am a college student from Atlanta GA. I have not had any other traffice violations. I admitted i had had two drinks and was not given a breatalizer test. What can I expect to pay for legal fees and fines or penelties?

my basset hurt his back jumping out of the tub. he was fine for a few days then he started walking kind of drunk in the back part of his legs. i took him to vet and put him on muscle rex. and pain pills and predsoine. he could walk then all of a sudden he is dragging his feet behind him. he cannot walk. he is in good spirits and eats, drinks water and pulls himself outhside for the bathroom and he is doing all that ok. i do not know what to do. he is happy wags his tail and flaps his ears. please help with any answer. ….regards dian e hall and toby joe hall

I was out the other nite having a few drinks with my buddies. I got in the car and started to drive home. At first I seemed OK, but then I realized I was drunk and can not drive. So I pulled out of the first exit I saw and pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot. I ‘d figured I’d rest and sober up. I fell asleep in the car and was awoken by an officer tapping on the window. He asked me what I was doing. I told him I was resting because I was drunk and couldn’t drive home. I told him I came from a bar that was about 1/2 mile away. He’d asked me to take a sobriety test. I said I’m drunk and too tired. Its about 3 am. He then cuffed and took me to the station. I took a BAC test at the station and blew 0.18. Now this is my first offense ever. I’ve never been arrested, I had only 1 speeding ticket in the last 5 years. I made a terrible mistake that night thinking I was able to drive home. Should I hire a lawyer? The officer didn’t see me drive at all. How does it look for me?
I live in the state of MA. The arrest took place in NH. There is no citation # on the order and condition of bail. How much would a lawyer be for this type of case?

This is my story on what happened Saturday on through Sunday from which I received my first ever DWI. Saturday afternoon my roommate and I had plans to meet some friends at Jesters Pub and listen to a few of the live bands that were scheduled to play there. We all were having a good time, Jesters is a type of bar where we can let out a little aggression it has what they call a mosh pit where everyone runs jumps and pushes each other, a very fun atmosphere for a certain type of person great exercise as well. Well after a few rounds of “moshing” a few rounds of drinks I found myself back in the “mosh pit”. Next thing I remember is numerous amounts of people tackling me and the last thing I remember is losing consciousness when I came to I was outside with the bouncers telling me that I need to take my roommate to the hospital because he had hurt his arm. So being the nieve drunk that I apparently am, and still in a state of confusion/adrenalin I scooped him up and headed to the car. Once in the car my senses hit me I told him that I probably shouldn’t drive so we called a friend to meet us. Unfortunately we had to meet our designated driver 3-5 blocks down the road at a local gas station…This is where I made my mistake I agreed to take him to the gas station. Almost immediately after we pulled out of the bar’s parking lot I saw blue lights and proceeded to pull over. I told the officer my situation and was arrested for DWI. I now understand that I made the wrong decision and things could have been much much worse. I’m thankful that no one else was injured or killed. I’m currently thinking about my situation I live off post I take care of my 20 month daughter and my wife is in the army as well. I really don’t know what to do or how much trouble I’m really in. Looking for lawyers paying the courts doesn’t fit within my budget along with a mortgage, car payment, wife, and child.

I got a dwi with a .08 BAC.. the fact that i did drink and drive is wrong! the fact that i had 1 or 2 drinks doesnt matter right? i want to do the right thing and not waste my energy and faith by getting a lawyer trying to prove that i was not guilty, even when inside i do feel guilty, its against the law and everyone knows the drinking and driving does no good to anyone. so i am going with my gut and conscious and plea guilty.
i just need help to say the right words. thanks anyother suggestions are appreciated

In another countries that do not allow DWIs? For example if a DWI is forbidden in another country would a person with a DWI still be able to drive in Austratlia or the UK? Example Mel Gibson or what if someone killed someone in the USA in a DWI?
No I do not drink, so it is not my problem. I was just wondering. USA is too leinient. I was just wondering if someone was from another country and got a DWI here it would follow them back home or if a DWI would prevent someone from obtaining residency in a strict country. I know someone who has muliti DWIs here and he wants to move to Australia. He is a US citizen. I was not sure they would take him. He has spent time in jail now for it. I do not condone drunk drivers because I think it is a preventable problem. Just do not drive. People in Australia take cabs. I do not drink. It is easy. People here do it because they do not get punished hard enough. Then innocent people get hurt and killed.
So please answer my question. I do not need AA if I do not drink. If you can educate me on other than the US.
Listen or should I write read. I am embarassed to even know people who drive intoxicated. My BF and I do not like this. If my BF drinks it is at home or I drive him. I do not drink at all for health reasons.
A DWI period is just unacceptable because it is preventable with cabs, sleeping over, calling firends, drinking at home or pre planning. There is one person I know of who has a van and he just sleeps it off in his van if he cannot stay put at a house.

Several years ago I had the bad judgment to get behind the wheel after having had several drinks. OK, I paid the fines, and the lawyer, and the DWI school, did the probation and the community service, etc.
Now the state of Texas wants 00.00 dollars per/year for 3 years for the "privilege" of having a drivers license. I will never pay this extortion money. My question is; If I move out of texas, lets say Louisiana, will I be able to get a license there? My legal obligations are done in Texas.