Is it Possible to Minimize DUI Penalties?
Drinking and driving can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor or a criminal offense. The alcohol limits are crucial. Let a specialist lawyer advise you at an early stage and thereby secure a decisive procedural advantage! What are the penalties for drinking and driving? There is no easy answer to this question. The range is wide and the individual penalties can certainly be imposed at the same time. Possible sanctions are fines, a driving ban, withdrawal of driver's license, and imprisonment. The level of punishment that applies depends on a number of factors. However, the decisive questions are whether it is an administrative offense or a criminal offense and to what extent the person concerned acted negligently or intentionally. Drunk driving becomes more problematic if other offenses are committed in addition to alcohol, e.g. hit-and-run. In this case, you should not make any statement and call on Impaired Driving Lawyers in Calgary. Drunk driving - intent or negligence In the case of drunk driving, the answer to intent or negligence is, to put it simply, the difference between “I can still drive” and “Well, actually, I can’t drive anymore.” From a legal point of view, there is a big difference between someone who could see the danger and for various reasons did not see it, and whether he accepted it approvingly or even deliberately exposedhimself and others to this danger. In the former case, he would have acted negligently, in the latter he would have acted intentionally. But beware! The courts will of course examine all the circumstances to answer the question of guilt. As an excuse, the argument "I thought I could still drive" is only partially suitable. To put it bluntly, a 100 kg man will probably believe the claim that after three bottles of beer he still felt able to drive his car safely. Probably not for a woman who is half the weight.