I got arrested for driving with a suspended license?
Call 411 ( information ) for the local group of legal representatives who may be able to give you the number of someone who will work either pro bono ( free ) or who will allow you to pay a small fee every month until your payment for using him or her as your attorney is done... it is usually called "the bar association". You never know, you might be able to get most of any huge fines waived . God bless you girl, I hope everything goes better for you. ( and just so you know.. no one gets their license suspended for no reason.and if you failed to appear in court or pay your fines or whatever... usually a warrant WILL be issued for your arrest.. so if thats why you got arrested... come on girl. You know what you have to do with your life. Turn it around. You can do it. )
How much beer (6% alcohol volume) can a 180 pound, 21 year old male, non-commercial driver drink without getting a DUI?
The number of beers you can drink depends on several factors and is generally described by your body physiology, sex, time, and the widmark formula. As general rule, one under 5% alcohol beer is equal to 0.02. To be safe two 12oz beers is about the most you should drink to avoid a DUI. While the DUI legal limit is 0.08 in the United States, most state have less safe operation statutes which allow police the discretion to charge you with DUI even if you register a blood alcohol level under 0.08. I discuss this on my webpage at Understanding Blood-Alcohol Levels
Can you go to jail for accidentally killing someone in a car accident, assuming you're not drunk or under the influence of any substances?
The short answer is that yes, it's possible to be sentenced to jail time for killing someone with your car, even if you didn't act intentionally and even if you were not intoxicated. That being said, the majority of fatal car accidents not involving drugs/alcohol are not going to result in jail time, because the majority of such accidents are the result of simple negligence (failure to adhere to general standards of care), as opposed to something more serious.For example, vehicular manslaughter is a crime that can carry jail time, and the crime does not require that the driver intended to kill or seriously injure someone. However, in most jurisdictions, the crime does require that the accused was operating a motor vehicle in a reckless or grossly negligent manner, as opposed to mere negligence. It is negligent, for example, to drive a few miles over the speed limit or to miss a stop sign because you were not paying full attention to the road, etc. Absent intoxication, these are examples of a driver breaching the duty of care he/she owes to other drivers/pedestrians, so there is certainly civil liability (often substantial) for the harm caused, but there is generally not criminal liability. However, if a driver behaves in a manner that demonstrates a disregard for the safety of others, then gross negligence or recklessness come into play. Intoxication is the most obvious example, because when you're driving drunk or high, you're plainly valuing your desire to get from Point A to Point B over the safety of those around you. However, even if you were stone-cold sober, it would be grossly negligent to drive 75 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. It would be grossly negligent to drive on a sidewalk. It would be grossly negligent to drive the wrong way on an interstate highway. It would be grossly negligent to race your cars on public streets. The list goes on and on, but the bottom line is that there's a big difference between "I failed to drive as required" and "I chose to do something incredibly stupid with my car," and in the latter situation, if someone dies, jail is realistic possibility.
My friend was arrested for DUI last night. What can he do to help better his chances in court?
Unless he hurt or killed someone, or has had numerous other DUI convictions in the past, it is not a felony. He will need to get a lawyer, and should be able to plea bargain it if it is his first offense. It won't be cheap, but hopefully he will learn from it.
How long can you sit in jail on a bench warrant before a judge sees you?
In the United States if you are arrested on a bench warrant, starting at the time you are booked into jail the jailers have 72 hours to present you before a judge. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the judge that signed the warrant, but a judge with jurisdiction none the less. That 72 hours rule applies for any arrest as a matter of fact.If after 72 hours you have not been presented before a judge then you will have to be released.True story, I was held for 74 hours once. I was arrested and sent before a judge, the judge released me but for some reason I was escorted back to jail on a “detainer” which is another warrant in the system. So i get back to the jail and that 72 hour clock started ticking again, starting from 0:00. So after 72 hours I raised hell, I requested a sergeant multiple times and plead my case that I have been in 72 hours on a “detainer” and haven’t seen a judge. One time the one guy looked at the other guy and laughed, made me feel like shit. Now it’s been 74 hours (2 hours past my constitutional limit) when suddenly the door to my cell is popped open, I am told to get my shit and get out, so I got out, went straight down to booking and was shown the door immediately. The funny thing about that is normally when someone is released from THAT jail they have to go to booking and it takes a couple hours, you sit in a cell, go to the desk answer questions, go back to the cell…. that wasn’t the case this time, they literally handed me my property and pointed at the exit door and said “leave”. They knew they fucked up, after some research I came to find out that the “detainer” that had me behind bars for 74 hours was nothing more than the original warrant that the judge had already released me on, it just happened to pop back up in the system I guess. IDK, I think I could have pursued it and maybe sued, it costed me an entire weekend from work.