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• Thomas Donnelly: A conviction for a felony or even certain misdemeanors may have very serious implications. These convictions can often lead to problems in your current employment and can also lead to loss of driving privileges. Possible solutions to these serious criminal charges include, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case, prompt intervention with the prosecutor, suppression of evidence, pretrial intervention programs, entry of a withholding of adjudication, a negotiated plea, and/or acquittal of all charges.
• Bauer, Crider, Pelligrino & Perry: All DUI offenders will suffer some period of suspension without any possibility of obtaining a temporary or business purposes license.
• Charles Holloway: Police may request that the Driver take a breath (Intoxilyzer), urine or blood test. Results may be admissible as evidence, and if .08% or higher, constitute evidence of impairment. Refusal to take the tests may also be admissible in evidence.
• Larry Sandefer: In Florida, if you have been arrested for DUI and your breath test result was .08 or higher, or you refused to take the breath test, the officer probably took your driver's license from you. You have 10 days to request a formal review hearing with the Department of Motor Vehicles to contest that suspension and attempt to get your license back. It is important to contest that suspension and attempt to get your license back. It is important to contact an attorney within that 10-day period. If you do not request the hearing, or do not prevail at the hearing, there are certain periods of time in which you will not be able to drive or obtain a hardship license.
• Carlson & Meisner: Florida Statues provide that anyone over the age of 21 who is driving with a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of .08% or more is legally impaired and would be subject to arrest for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol.
• Staack & Simms: It is not a crime to drink and drive but only to do so to the extent your normal faculties to judge distance, exercise physical reactions and operate a motor vehicle are impaired.
• Gail Conolly: You should know that anyone charged with DUI faces certain mandatory sentences which may include:
  • a minimum 6 month drivers license suspension
  • a period of probation
  • a possible jail sentence
  • community service
  • DUI school/alcohol evaluation, fines and court costs
  • mandatory 10 day vehicle impoundment