| If you are arrested for drunk driving, there are a few | | | | tested. If you are arrested for a DWI, your license is |
| things that you need to understand about your case. | | | | automatically suspended because you are driving while |
| People can commonly confuse DUI and DWI but there | | | | over the legal limit in Texas. |
| is a definite difference between the two of them. If | | | | Once you are taken in to jail and booked, you will have |
| you are involved in a case such as this, you should | | | | a bail hearing to determine what the amount of your |
| consider contacting your Austin Jail Release Lawyers | | | | bail will be. If you haven't had any prior criminal history, |
| as soon as possible so they can begin working on | | | | then they could possibly let you off with a lower bail or |
| your case immediately. | | | | on your word that you will come back to appear in |
| Both DUI and DWI are acronyms for other sets of | | | | court. If you have had a prior criminal background or |
| words which are driving while intoxicated and driving | | | | are considered a flight risk then they will probably give |
| under the influence. DWI or driving while intoxicated is | | | | you a higher sentence depending on the situation and |
| the more severe of the two types of charges that | | | | circumstances. They will also assign you a trial date |
| you could receive. A DWI means that you are above | | | | that you will be required to appear. |
| the legal intoxication limit. This means that when the | | | | If it is your first DWI offense, then they will usually give |
| police pull you over, they will most likely give you some | | | | you a fine as well as alcohol awareness classes that |
| type of breathalyzer test in order to measure your | | | | you need to take in a certain amount of time. |
| BAC. BAC or Blood Alcohol Concentration is the | | | | Sometimes they will even add some type of |
| amount of blood to alcohol you have in your system at | | | | community service hours that you are required to do. If |
| the moment that you take the test. The legal BAC in | | | | you have already had a previous DWI, the fines and |
| the state of Texas is .08%. If you are above this BAC | | | | possibly even jail time can be more severe for your |
| then you are considered legally drunk by the state of | | | | punishment. |
| Texas and will be arrested if you are pulled over and | | | | |