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For those people with a “bad dui”.

Aka crashes, or repeat DUI’s, or super high bac’s…

Did your lawyer have you do anything as mitigation? Do you think it helped your overall case result and how? What was the mitigation you did.

Misdemeanor case. The realistic potential of jail is 0 days to a few weeks. Probably will be “some” jail at a minimum.

Not one time has the Court appointed lawyer asked for the clients explanation of what happened. Is that common?

To be more specific- almost all arrests show up when you search on that arrests.org website

The thing I noticed though only CERTAIN people’s results are indexed by Google and appear in Google search results when you search their name. There is no pattern it is completely random.

For example, finding a persons page on arrests.org returns a firstname_lastname_12345 hyperlink. When you search firstname_lastnane_12345 on google it will show the arrests.org hit for some and not for others. Has anyone checked this?

Has anyone made an attempt directly through Google to deindex it? (Through Google - it would still stay on the arrests.org website)

Has anyone had a job offer rescinded after a background check?

I was recently charged with a second dui.

I got my first almost a decade ago.
After that first one I NEVER had a job offer rescinded. I worked a good white collar job, at health insurance and banks and government and consulting and no one ever cared nor did they ask after they did the background check. I even drove as a DoorDash driver lmao.

Now that I have a second I am worried how much this changes things.

If you ever had a job offer rescinded SPECIFICALLY after the background check - which Job was it for? If you had multiple DUI’s did it change between the first and second?

For those of you with a restricted license after your dui I assume you have restrictions that say “to and from work, to and from medical appointments only”.

Have you ever been pulled over while on the restricted and did the officer ask where you’re going and did they ask for proof

Whether that recommendation is taking the plea offer, doing a blind plea, going to trial.

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PD tells a defendant “I expect an offer to come in at xyz days of jail time”.

The prosecutor offered double that.

The PD then told the defendant “I don’t recommend a continuance. This is a bad offer. Do an open plea and the judge will probably give what I expected in the first place”.

Defendant checks what the PD will mention as “mitigation” in front of the judge after an open plea, and TBH it makes the defendant look worse than reality and it may actually be aggravating not mitigating.

Eventually the PD/prosecutor both continued the case after the defendant begged the PD to continue the case.

Why would the PD do that? Genuinely.
It’s odd. The PD was told by the defendant just last week that “if no good offer is made can we continue the case to do xyz” and he straight up says “we will not continue. There is no good cause”.

Lol.

The “mandatory” jail times for dui in my state for a 2nd dui under 10 years are 10 days for <.15 bac or 20 days for .15-.20 or 30 days for > .20

So the mandatory minimum days in jail for my charge are 30 days. I was sleeping in my own parked car. At my own apartment. The “offer” is 60 days of jail.

If I got the dui 6 months later it would have been outside the 10 year frame and would have been treated as a first dui with 10 days of jail mandatory even WITH the BAC enhancement.

For those with plea offers BEFORE court. Did your lawyer reach out to them or did they just hear from the prosecutor, unannounced?

Also has anyone had an ACTUAL trial. Like either by judge or jury?

My court date is in VA and I’m trying to gather some info lol

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I have court next week.

I requested to view bodycam footage yesterday, and he told me to come to his office.

The issue is I’m living 2 hours away. I can’t make it today. Court is Monday.

Today is my only chance to view it.

Would I be able to ask him to screen share it via zoom or MS teams? Do lawyers even use zoom. Genuine question.

He’s court appointed and I feel like hesitation to even ask him for anything ever because I’m not paying him.

If so, did they send it to you? Did you have to go to their office?

My trial is next Monday. I only found out yesterday that he has the bodycam. He told me I can come to his office today to view it.

The issue is I’m staying with my parents pre trial, and I’m 1.5 hours away. I can’t get there. My family is at work.

I’m wondering if he would be willing to screen share via ZOOM or MS Teams.

VA

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the only reason I want to see the video is I asked if the car was on (sleeping dui in a parked car arrest), and he said “I already viewed the evidence on bodycam. The key was in the ignition and the officer took the key out of the ignition”.

Impossible because my car is push to start. He then brushed aside every concern I had without giving reasons. Im now worried he didn’t even view the evidence. Hes court appointed and it feels like he is just acting as customer service on behalf of the court.

Arrested a couple months ago and got a court-appointed lawyer.

While I was in jail, he told my family, who did not even know why I was arrested, “Jail is good, he’ll be safe there” and “he’s an alcoholic.”

At our first jail meeting, before I said anything, he gave me a canned speech about treating all clients the same.

I later got bond with an ankle monitor. He left without explaining how to arrange it, so I had to figure it out from jail through someone outside.

More recently, I had to ask for discovery and ask whether he had contacted the prosecutor. He then said he had reviewed the bodycam, but described the officer removing a key from the ignition. My car is push to start, and the police report itself says the officer pressed the start/stop button. I was shocked. I felt like he directly lied to me about viewing the footage, in the exact same call where he shut down every avenue I brought up without explaining why.

He dismissed my defense questions quickly, but was more helpful about logistics like weekend jail and same-day custody.

Does this sound normal for a court-appointed lawyer, or are these legitimate red flags?

2nd dui. (First was 10 years ago)

Mandatory minimum for a aggravated second dui is 30 days.

Lawyer said if offered a deal for mandatory minimum (30days of jail) to take it.

I was sleeping in my car at my own parking lot.

:(
Not a sympathy post. Just a FML.

Let’s say it’s a typical white collar position. (50k-100k salary type of role). Hybrid position

How many people do you usually contact for a phone screen? How many of those phone screens move to a hiring manager interview?

I am currently applying to data analyst positions (very saturated field).

I am on the market again.

My issue is that the local market doesn’t have a ton of openings for this specific field.

If I was able to relocate, and applied in neighboring states, what kind of “penalty” should I expect?

For context - last year when job searching I applied to 100 data analyst positions locally, and I had 11 phone screens, 8 interviews, 3 offers.

What can I expect if I repeat the process but for a neighboring state? (Similar size cities etc)

What specifically happened on your heading date at court?

Is there actually a trial or does your lawyer and the prosecutor just make a deal?

Is any evidence presented?

Like what happens from the moment you reach the courthouse to the very end.

I already spent a couple days in jail before getting a lawyer and my lawyer and I appeared before the judge for a bond hearing.