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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
Well, it's so rude that they end your life without proving that you actually did it.. Your freedom is gone in that you cannot drive while an automobile is an essential part of pretty much everything here, then they rape you for a fortune of money, then you possibly go to jail, then when you ever are allowed to drive again the insurance company rapes you to death with high prices
I always refer to it as "Freedom and Liberty, my BALLS"
Basically in the states if you don't have money and they decide to send you through the meat grinder, you're going to lose a lot of skin. If you're white and have a white checkbook, you can pretty much do whatever you want. I'm being punished far far more seriously than many many people I know who have hurt people pretty badly. In the states they're not SUPPOSED to convict you of victimless crimes, but they do it day in and day out. In the case of drunk driving, I don't mind that, because I hate drunk drivers myself. But I wish they would not use a SLOT machine to end my life because some other assholes drive drunk.
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That whole statement is a crock of shit. In fact, your whole story is a crock of shit.
You blew 0.136? You were drunk. If you say otherwise, then any decent lawyer would request a calibration report on the machine they used to measure your BAC. In fact, most lawyers will request a calibration report by routine as it's an easy dismissal if it is deemed not accurate or said report cannot be produced. I'm talking about the one they used when you were processed, not the less accurate field units which are not used as evidence of your intoxication but merely to substantiate the officers probable cause to haul you in.
You were also driving 57 mph over, nearly twice, the posted limit. That's well in excess of careless and reckless which alone typically caries similar penalties to a DUI.
Not convict you for victimless crimes? Are you high right now? Speeding, public intoxication, etc. You jeopardized lives - should they let you slide until you actually kill someone?
As to not having all driving privileges revoked, most first time offenders can get provisional driving privileges for driving to and from work and going to get groceries. Their lives are not altogether ruined because of temporarily impaired judgement as you make it sound. Not knowing where this occurred and taken with the severity of your offenses, and it is possible you may lose your driving privileges altogether for a time. But then, driving is a privilege and not a right.
You initially posted about this a year ago - sounds like the lawyer thought that it would be handled while they were still licensed to practice in the state. If his license expires, he can't practice - that's pretty straight forward.
You make reference to having done jail time before, being a recidivist offender certainly isn't going to help your position any. Also, the "many many people I know who have hurt people pretty badly" suggests that not only do you make poor decisions, but commonly associate with unsavory characters as well.
You have two options: (1)
Admit that you fucked up - again, accept the consequences like a grown up and maybe this time learn from it, or (2) keep telling yourself that you did nothing wrong and how you're being unjustly prosecuted because you are black, poor, stupid, etc, go to jail (again), and keep making the same stupid fucking decisions until they eventually lock you up for good.
Your call.