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DUI With a Minor In the Car

What's the position the Department of Driver Services take?

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March 4, 2013 by Roland Castellanos Leave a Comment

The State of Georgia has provided many pitfalls for those who take advantage of its tolerance for alcohol consumption.

Besides providing that it’s illegal to drive .08g% or above in alcohol content or in the alternative that it’s illegal to drive with any amount of alcohol which renders you a less safe driver, the State of Georgia has also made it a separate crime to drive intoxicated while endangering a person less than 16 years of a age as a passenger.

I have client with a case pending where he carried his three children while driving .08 or above. The Department of Driver Services has taken the position that each minor is a separate crime of DUI. If convicted would be convicted of four separate DUIs, just as if he had been arrested and convicted for separate occasions. Thus, the second child would make him a Habitual Traffic Violator (a five year license suspension) and the third child would place him at the felony level even though he only had one event.

I’m not condoning DUI let alone driving so with your children but it appears that the Law of Unintended Consequences could reach an absurd result. Well, we’ll see soon enough.

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Roland Castellanos’s background, education and experience as a Superior Court judge in the State of Georgia allow him to offer unique representation in your legal issues. Today, he is the lead attorney at Castellanos Law Group, a Marietta criminal defense law firm specialized on representing those facing domestic troubles and the defense of those wrongfully charged with criminal offenses.
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