What is the name of your state? MI
MY Pre-Trial hearing was today. No-prior offenses. Blew .18 in field, .16 at station. After speaking with the City Atty, I am poised to believe he sympathizes with my plight. He suggests the outcome of a bench trial will be quite the same wether I use the court appointed counsel or hire my own for a few grand. Our expectations are that the judge will lower the charge to driving while impaired, impose a fine, 6mo-1yr probation, and require alcohol saftey counseling. -No jail time or community service. However I am told it is out of the courts hands as to getting a mandatory 4 points on my license.
Question:
1. Should I believe this?
2. Would private counsel be able to suspend the points on my license providing I meet probation requirements?
3. Can the charge be somehow expunged if I show improvement through therapy?
4. Is this getting off easy (relative to other 1st timers?)
Now for the non-condensed version---- for those initerested in the specific circumstances.
I have browsed this forum a while (I was suing a local business for credit card fraud), and would sometimes delve into other parts of the forum just to see what goes on here. I used to be one of those people who all others would lean to for advice. My opinions on life's matters were/are viewed by my peers with high esteem. I don't feel like a am worthy of giving such advice anymore. At 34, I thought I was at a point in life where I was finished making mistakes, so I thought. I feel like an idiot, perhaps justifialbly so.
HOW COULD I LET THIS HAPPEN?
In fear of losing the affections of my then current girfriend (somebody slap me for saying that), I decide to take her shopping after a long day of work.. After leaving the mall, we change into our new threads, pick up her sister (WHY?) and go club-hopping. After about the 3rd club, I'm getting quite drunk with my ex-girlfriend and her sister. I notice the sister is spending more time with me than my ex is. It's 2am, we are ready to leave, and I realize I am in no shape to drive. So, I have my ex drive us all to her house. When we arrive, I assume she tires of my company or would perfer other companionship, because she finds any excuse to start an argument with me. This well had dried up months ago, and any sane person would have moved on by now. I hadn't been this drunk since college days, and have little 1st hand recollection of what happened here. But I am told we fought, I broke a window cutting my hand, she gave me a black eye, and told me to leave or she'd call the cops. In a drunken stupor I left. I am told I tripped a few times, dropped my keys about 3 times, and I took 10 minutes to find out which button openes the car door before barreling off at 80 mph. I made it about 35 miles away to within 1 mile of my house and dozed off behind the wheel at a red light. The car coasted onto a residential lawn causing damage to the lawn and undercarriage of the car after striking a curb (2006 DTS btw). I flagged down a local squad car I'd spotted on the road for assistance. (drunks are smart, eh?) And after blowing .18 and failing a field sobriety test, I was treated for my hand (band-aid via ambulance) and taken to the station.
The official test showed .17 and .16 consecutively.
WOW!
This was an eye opener for me. Needles to say, things could have been terribly worse. When I sobered in the morning, I imagine I was quite a sight to the presiding judge. No belt, no shoes, jean-sagging, hung-over, black-eyed, blood covered orange and green clothes, looking like a clown from a rap video. (I am usually a blazer and slacks type of guy). I've nearly let this woman destroy me.. And she doesn't even like me OMG!...
You would think that after losing 2 cars, (The Escalade is in the shop after being broken into while I was at a nightclub with her 2 days earlier, DTS is wrecked), Almost losing my job (DUI's aren't taken lightly with my employer) and getting dumped AGAIN by my ex, that I would finally have a clue, eh? NOPE.. I'm gonna take a week or so to gather my thoughts and re-evaluate my priorities. I just moved to the suburbs to aviod the trials and tribulations of inner city.. only to find I have brought them with me.
I've been to 3 AA meetings so far. Although I support the organization and the 12-step program as a VERY important tool for recovery, I don't believe alcohol is my problem. (Even though a DUI would speak otherwise). I have also sought psychatric therapy to assist me in detrmining what the HELL I was thinking, and how I could STILL be attracted to this she-demon thats driving me insane. (2 guesses where I'll be tonight.) No need for posts about how stupid I am.. I'm working on that part ok? I wanna know If I can somehow have this expunged from my record or at least my driving record?
Bah, this question has turned into a rant.
Just read the top part.
And the moral of the story is?????
(Ummm.. Don't sleep with your Latin girlfriends sister?)
MY Pre-Trial hearing was today. No-prior offenses. Blew .18 in field, .16 at station. After speaking with the City Atty, I am poised to believe he sympathizes with my plight. He suggests the outcome of a bench trial will be quite the same wether I use the court appointed counsel or hire my own for a few grand. Our expectations are that the judge will lower the charge to driving while impaired, impose a fine, 6mo-1yr probation, and require alcohol saftey counseling. -No jail time or community service. However I am told it is out of the courts hands as to getting a mandatory 4 points on my license.
Question:
1. Should I believe this?
2. Would private counsel be able to suspend the points on my license providing I meet probation requirements?
3. Can the charge be somehow expunged if I show improvement through therapy?
4. Is this getting off easy (relative to other 1st timers?)
Now for the non-condensed version---- for those initerested in the specific circumstances.
I have browsed this forum a while (I was suing a local business for credit card fraud), and would sometimes delve into other parts of the forum just to see what goes on here. I used to be one of those people who all others would lean to for advice. My opinions on life's matters were/are viewed by my peers with high esteem. I don't feel like a am worthy of giving such advice anymore. At 34, I thought I was at a point in life where I was finished making mistakes, so I thought. I feel like an idiot, perhaps justifialbly so.
HOW COULD I LET THIS HAPPEN?
In fear of losing the affections of my then current girfriend (somebody slap me for saying that), I decide to take her shopping after a long day of work.. After leaving the mall, we change into our new threads, pick up her sister (WHY?) and go club-hopping. After about the 3rd club, I'm getting quite drunk with my ex-girlfriend and her sister. I notice the sister is spending more time with me than my ex is. It's 2am, we are ready to leave, and I realize I am in no shape to drive. So, I have my ex drive us all to her house. When we arrive, I assume she tires of my company or would perfer other companionship, because she finds any excuse to start an argument with me. This well had dried up months ago, and any sane person would have moved on by now. I hadn't been this drunk since college days, and have little 1st hand recollection of what happened here. But I am told we fought, I broke a window cutting my hand, she gave me a black eye, and told me to leave or she'd call the cops. In a drunken stupor I left. I am told I tripped a few times, dropped my keys about 3 times, and I took 10 minutes to find out which button openes the car door before barreling off at 80 mph. I made it about 35 miles away to within 1 mile of my house and dozed off behind the wheel at a red light. The car coasted onto a residential lawn causing damage to the lawn and undercarriage of the car after striking a curb (2006 DTS btw). I flagged down a local squad car I'd spotted on the road for assistance. (drunks are smart, eh?) And after blowing .18 and failing a field sobriety test, I was treated for my hand (band-aid via ambulance) and taken to the station.
The official test showed .17 and .16 consecutively.
WOW!
This was an eye opener for me. Needles to say, things could have been terribly worse. When I sobered in the morning, I imagine I was quite a sight to the presiding judge. No belt, no shoes, jean-sagging, hung-over, black-eyed, blood covered orange and green clothes, looking like a clown from a rap video. (I am usually a blazer and slacks type of guy). I've nearly let this woman destroy me.. And she doesn't even like me OMG!...
You would think that after losing 2 cars, (The Escalade is in the shop after being broken into while I was at a nightclub with her 2 days earlier, DTS is wrecked), Almost losing my job (DUI's aren't taken lightly with my employer) and getting dumped AGAIN by my ex, that I would finally have a clue, eh? NOPE.. I'm gonna take a week or so to gather my thoughts and re-evaluate my priorities. I just moved to the suburbs to aviod the trials and tribulations of inner city.. only to find I have brought them with me.
I've been to 3 AA meetings so far. Although I support the organization and the 12-step program as a VERY important tool for recovery, I don't believe alcohol is my problem. (Even though a DUI would speak otherwise). I have also sought psychatric therapy to assist me in detrmining what the HELL I was thinking, and how I could STILL be attracted to this she-demon thats driving me insane. (2 guesses where I'll be tonight.) No need for posts about how stupid I am.. I'm working on that part ok? I wanna know If I can somehow have this expunged from my record or at least my driving record?
Bah, this question has turned into a rant.
Just read the top part.
And the moral of the story is?????
(Ummm.. Don't sleep with your Latin girlfriends sister?)
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