| Yeppers |
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| 05/09/04 10:58 AM |
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 Re: Busted for possession...please help I'm scared
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It's the 3rd DUI for you. DUI laws are pretty tough all across the country these days.
You need an attorney who specializes in it.
I know u r here looking for advice/support, but we're all trying to explain to u , that u need to get an attorney.
Laws vary differently from state to state, as well as judges/prosecutors and their opinions on what sentencing to give, should u try to use the "rehab" idea or some other sort of plea bargain agreement.
I mean, yes, there are mandatory sentencing guidelines, but you need a lawyer who knows the ropes in your town ( so to speak )
As for the bashing you think u r receiving here:
When I was a little girl, a drunk driver hit our car, which caused us to fly out into an intersection, and hit another car.
We were ok, but one of the people we hit, had to be rushed to hospital for severe injuries.
Then , in high school, we lost a member of our class to a drunk driver.
We are not bashing you. We r just giving u the facts.
We are trying to help you.
U just can't get behind the wheel when intoxicated.
U may serve jail time for this one, I hope u realize this.
U will most certainly lose your license for quite awhile.
But, and I don't mean this to "bash" you, u need to consider yourself fortunate that u didn't kill somebody.
Please take this post with the intention of trying to help.
Not a bash.
Please get a lawyer, and don't rely on an internet message board for legal advice.
Good luck to u.
I do understand this. What I am trying to get across that 3-4 drinks in a 2 to 2.5 hour period of time, I honestly DID NOT think that I was intoxicated by the law or by my own body chemistry. I think that is the point that I am trying to get across. In the past. I would have had at least 6- drinks in a 3 hour period. So I thought I was being careful.
That is my only pont. Obviously I was wrong, but I was not blithing drunk, serving over the road and stumbling. So I don't need to be told that. I just did not think that a few drinks in a 2 to 3 hour period would put me over the limit. I was not in a postition to cause an accident by being drunk. I had been there in the past and as such have been very careful in drinking, so the point of compelete absintance. this is the first time I have drinken any alcohol and driven since June 2002. I have drank, actaully on 2 other occasions. Once a couple weekends ago I had 2 beers in the privacy of a hotel room and once on New Year's eve, which was my birthday. I maybe had 5 drinks that night in a 5 hour period with my husband driving.
No, the point here is NOT that I am NOT taking rsponsiblity. I do take responsibibilty. I made a mistake. BUT I did not feel that I was over the limit, I stopedd and ate, drink water and all before driving home. I cannot fathom that with the toleranc that I had, that the amount of alcohol I had would put im into an intoxicated state. I am also betting that 90 % of posters here have had 2-4 drinks in a 2-3 hour of time period and driven numberous time. As stated. I did not have any hydro in my system at the time as it had been 7.5 hours since my last useage. I did not have any Xanax in my system and it had probably been ten days since that usage.
Actually to the poster that said the 2 hour wait for the brathalyzer is a good thing, that I may have blown higher before it.
That is not always the case.
Read below:
This was taken from the Damm organiztioin: Drivers against Madd methods:
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Commonly, it is an hour or more after the stop when the blood, breath or urine test is given to the suspect. Assume that the result is .10%. If the suspect has continued to absorb alcohol since he was stopped, his BAC at the time he was driving may have been only .07%. In other words, the test result shows a blood-alcohol concentration above the legal limit -- but his actual BAC AT THE TIME OF DRIVING was below
In ADDITIOIN: I have dental work that may have 'trapped; acohol, thus ausing there to be alcohol in my mouth, causing a higher reading. Keep in mind a breathalizer determineds the amount of alcohol in a persons blood, not the amount of undigested alcohol that may be present in the defendants stomach at the time of the stop.
excuse my typos which have been pointed out to me, I am in some w/d from refraining from hydro, so a bit jiterry alog with a complete nervous wreck.
