Lasting Effects of DUI
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Most likely, your concern when arrested for DUI is your immediate freedom and restoration of driving privileges. These are very pressing concerns because a DUI conviction typically leads to loss of driving privileges and prison terms.
However, there are long-lasting effects that you need to handle after settling your immediate concerns. Aside from the economic effects, the criminal record or history will haunt you forever.
It will be much worse if your DUI offense was as a felony. This consideration would depend on the case specifics (habitual offender, property damage with high value, serious injury/accident/or death, etc.).
So if you have a felony DUI, then you need to reduce it to a misdemeanor at least. Your DUI attorney can help you with this. Basically, you would need to obtain a “pardon” by petitioning your state Governor and requesting for a conversion of your felony case to a mere misdemeanor.
Then, once pardon is obtained, you can go through an “expungement” process where your misdemeanor record can be cleared. Of course, this may not be granted to all cases, but there’s no harm in trying. Again, it’s important to do all these with the help of your DUI attorney. You can search online for various attorney directories in order to find the right professional help that you seek.
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