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Sucking it up and owning up to what you did is the right play here. Take it from someone who put up a .08 on the breathalyzer himself.

It's important to pull the positive out of this situation. It's a cheap lesson...learn it.

BTW, prepare for a whole slew of preachy uppity folks who will be all BAAAHHHHHHH...DUI = 666!!!!! U R A WASTE ON SOCIETY. NO DRIVING 24 HOURS AFTER YOUR LAST BEER. Be honest with yourself and internalize what you need to from these people.

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I'd be interested to hear about this Doug. You kinda stopped posting after it happened (I think that was the death of your contest with Justin).

My sister's experiences with a DUI were pretty [censored]. 2 years of probation, mandatory AA and an ignition interlock device in her car.

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BB - drinking and driving is stupid. You know this, and deserved to get caught.

If the trooper made you blow 5 times, and you passed the field tests, you can try challenging the calibration. I have a friend who did this and got the DUI charge dropped in favor of reckless driving.

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Thank you ... this is what I was looking for.

Every degenerate on here is welcome to take the moral high ground and tell me what I "deserve".

I broke the law... fine... I'll pay the fees, jail time, whatever...

However, I know in my heart of hearts that I didn't "endanger" anyone.

BTW... for all of those that are taking the moral high ground... look in the mirror the next time you go 66mph and remember... you could have killed someone because you were operating a vehicle over the magic number of 65mph.

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we have 70mph speed limits here.

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LOL, [censored]. You got what you deserved.

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Get an attorney. You can beat this easily.


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However, I know in my heart of hearts that I didn't "endanger" anyone.

[/ QUOTE ]Yes, you did.

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Not more so than if I was speeding (sober), making a rolling stop at a stop sign, or changing lanes without using my blinker.

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Get a criminal defense attorney in the county you were ticketed, who handles DUI cases. Make sure the attorney is excellent. Do you know any career criminals ( yes, I am serious)? If so, ask them for a referral.

As with most any crime, if you know the right attorney to hire, you can get your charges knocked down or out.

Even though you're an idiot for drinking and driving, getting these charges knocked down needs to be your primary focus. F-all these clowns telling you to suck it up and take your punishment. Do everything you can to keep yourself out of the criminal justice system (no greater oxymoron exists).

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Get an attorney. You can beat this easily.

And don't do the sobriety tests, ever.

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This is good advice. I would not be surprised at all if you were able to plea this down.

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Hire an attorney that regularly does DUIs in the county where you got the ticket. It will probably cost some $$$ but it increases your chances of getting off considerably. Make sure you ask them if they do these kind of things and their relationship with the prosecutors, cops and judge. Ask friends if they know anyone that does this and go from there. If Cali works like Illinois this is the key to getting off.

Good luck.

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I felt some sympathy until the "dikes" thing. Now I hope you rot.

Unrelated to this biatch's problem, .08 is retardedly low for the drunk driving standard. I am very against drunk driving. I am completely okay with not drunk driving. At .08, you are not drunk.

-bb (ducking the sure-to-be-coming knee-jerk flames).

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BTW... in CA the legal limit used to be .10%... then it was changed due to some heavy MADD petitioning. There was very little scientific evidence that the difference between 0.08 and 0.10 was the deal-breaker and/or the cause of more accidents / fatalities... but Pete Wilson needed some SIG's on his side and MADD was huge in CA for a long time.

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Good luck to you in court.

For an entertaining (and scary!) read, check this out.

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/08_02...hting_madd.htm

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Read this a long time ago, and read it again today. It should be mandatory reading for the self-righteous a-holes in this thread like Bi-h00r. 0.09 isn't drunk, wasn't until recently even illegal, it's a bunch of crap and some people are too busy preaching to OP to acknowledge this obvious fact.

BTW, my favorite part of that story (taking it as fact) is where the founder of MADD was kicked to the curb because she believed in focusing on the trouble drivers and repeat offenders rather than lesser or non-threats.

To all the preachers in this thread, I hope you get pulled over for a 0.08 in the near future and find out for yourself what a crock of sh*t it is. That'll knock you off your high horse.