re: OT DUI experts - "Unprocessed" DUI 6 years ago, now wants license/insurance back

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know of a man who decided, twenty years ago, that he was not going to put the breathing apparatus in his car. So, he just didn't drive. He also quit drinking. But, when he went to get his license, the DMV still insisted that he have the machine installed in his car. Their position was that you do not have the option to simply quit driving in lieu of having he breath tester in your car for the designated period of time.

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Worked with a guy in Texas who had gotten a DUI in Arizona like fifteen years earlier. Arizona didn’t require the breath tester in your vehicle at the time if you lived out of state. But Texas had just changed their DUI laws somehow and because he had never had an interlock they told him he had to get one now.

He tried to go the lawyer route but the guy told him he basically had two options: either hire a lawyer back in Arizona and attempt to get it expunged since it was so old, but that could cost a fair bit of money and require him to spend time going back and forth a few times, which may not even work … or try to fight it here in Texas which probably wouldn’t work. So he ended up getting it installed and he parked at the extreme end of the company parking lot for the year.