Types of DUI and DWI Cases

Being charged with a DUI case in the state of Arizonayour jail costs. Your license can be confiscated for a
is not very simple. In fact, the DUI penalty that may beyear, plus you will also be sentenced with community
charged to you varies depending on the severity ofservice for at least 30 hours. You will also be under
your case. But before you deal with your DUI case,probation for five years.
you have to be informed of your rights first by hiringIf you are driving with a blood alcohol content or BAC
an experienced attorney and letting him help youof 0.15 or more, you will be punished based on the
throughout the process.guidelines for extreme DUI cases. In the first conviction,
Your attorney will also help you determine what typeyou will be sentenced to 30 days in jail, fines and fees
of DUI or DWI case you are facing. The most minoramounting up to $2700, driver's license suspension for
case is the first DUI offense, in which the offender90 days, and probation for five years. For your second
possesses slightly impaired faculties and a bloodextreme DUI offense, you will spend 120 days in jail,
alcohol content of .08 or more. The penalty for this$3700 fines and fees including jail costs, license
type of offense is a minimum of 10 days in jail.revocation for one year, probation for five years, and
However, 9 days can be suspended if the offendera minimum of 30 hours of community service.
subjects himself to an alcohol treatment and evaluationHaving a .200 or more BAC while driving will result to a
program. Aside from jail time, the offender will alsosuper extreme case of DUI. You will be sentenced to
have to pay around $1500 fine, plus his license cana minimum of 45 days in jail, plus $3200 total of fees
also be suspended for 90 days. Probation can also beand fines without the jail costs. Your license will also be
ordered by the court, and this can last up to five years.revoked for a year, and you will be under probation for
Once you commit your second regular DUI offensefive years. If you commit the same mistake for the
within 84 months of your first DUI offense, your jailsecond time, you will spend 180 days behind bars, with
time will increase up to 90 days, 60 days of which canfees totaling up to $4500, again without the jail costs.
be suspended if you subject yourself to an alcoholYour license will be revoked for one year, you will be
treatment and evaluation program. The fines and feesunder probation for five years, and you have to render
that you will have to pay will go up to $3400, excludingcommunity service for a minimum of 30 hours.