re: Could I have gotten a DUI?

So let me see if I got your story straight...

You put the key in the ignition and you're hot and fresh out the kitchen, and your wife's rollin' that body and got every man outside wishin'. You were sippin' on wine in your truck and you're like so what I'm drunk. It's the freakin' weekend and your baby is having some fun.


Do I have that correct?

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but just being charged with DUI causes almost as much damage as being convicted of it

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no it is not.

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no it is not.

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monetarily it is, to the insurance company, the charge is the same as a conviction, you still have to hire an attorney, and possibly a bail bondsman, and if it goes to trial you'll probably be out up to ten grand for everything, plus you'll have a permanent arrest record

ETA: could have some serious repercussions with your employer and even your ability to work if your job requires any kind of special licensing, certification, or security clearance,etc.

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Actually, it has more weight than you would think. I've seen (somewhat) of a similar scenario and it was dropped immediately in General Sessions at the preliminary hearing.

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After you spent time in jail. You are guilty til proven innocent.

That's just how it works.

Also, if he were to refuse breathalyzer, he loses his license. It's another $500 to appeal for a hardship.

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Many DUIs get thrown out cause cops pull people over without reasonable suspension.

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You are missing my point. He still would have had to be bonded out of jail. The cop doesn't have to have reasonable anything to take you away in handcuffs.

Again, you are guilty until proven innocent. I'm just talking dwi, dui.

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suspension.

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you said suspension twice

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My 90 year old neighbor smoked my truck backing out his driveway. First thing cop asked for was insurance/registration. I asked why, and he said if it hadn't been insured the old man wouldn't be liable

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No pay, no play law. Basically if there's a wreck, if the not-at-fault driver is uninsured, then the at-fault driver's insurance is off the hook. They can't make a claim against someone else's insurance if they're driving illegally without insurance.

Your situation would've been a gray area because if the truck is registered for use on public roads, its required to have insurance. But if you had cancelled your plate, no insurance, and car parked on private property...his insurance would still be responsible.

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dui on your own property?

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Drinking and driving is drinking and driving. This is one example I can think of. You ever been in a neighborhood or a road that is nothing but residential houses, in which the road isn't a city or parish road.. The neighborhood developer put in a concrete road? Let's say the neighborhood developer lives there and one day he is drunk as all get out and he gets into his vehicle and a cop sees that he is swerving, etc. If he stops him, on that concrete road, which would technically be his property.. He will get a DUI.

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shite, you hear horror stories of people knowing they were too far gone to drive and just going to sleep in the car to sleep it off only to get arrested for DUI because they were drunk in the passenger compartment with the keys.

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What happens more frequently is that drunks drive awhile, realize they are too drunk, pull over, park then pass out. Cop shows up and you are behind the wheel, engine going, you had to drive to get there some presumably you drove drunk.

I know a poster who fell asleep at the light on Stanford on his way home from the Caterie. Cop taps on window and tells him to go home. Of course, he was white and this was the 80s, before the DAs and police realized they could make a fortune off drunk drivers, so less incentive to arrest. Kinda like there were no MIPs back in the 80s and early 90s. Now DWI/DUIs are just a racket.

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what I mean by that is that in the eyes of your auto insurer the charge of a DUI carries as much weight as a conviction, if they don't drop you outright, your rates would probably triple or go even higher, USAA will drop you for life for just a charge for example

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State Farm dropped me, never was convicted, just charged. And anytime I get pulled over, a cop sees I was arrested for dwi and immediately starts with the drinking questions.

Mine was thrown out because the arresting officer falsified the police report. But on my record, forever, I was arrested for a 1st offense dwi.