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DUI advice in CA, please...?

My boyfriend was arrested this week for a misdemeanor DUI and it is his 2nd count in 5 years, though I think his first count probation was only for 3 yrs. Someone told us it will cost him $20,000 and a lawyer told us it would cost that much if he was convicted, but with a lawyer it would be $5-7,000. The penalties I found on line seemed to say the maximum penalty was closer to $3000 with mandatory jail or community service time of 96 hrs. What am I missing? Anyone have experience with this or advice to offer?

Thanks for your help!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i hope he loses his license for ever 1 time is bad enough 2 time s some people never learn thank goodness he has never killed anyone and just because it is his 2nd offense means hes only been caught twice you and i both know he has done it more then that by him a bicycle for christmas

  • 5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Obviously it's different from state to state, but I got my second DUI (in PA), last September and I was sentenced to 90 days in jail (which I served on house arrest at a cost of ten dollars per day). My fines are a bit over 3000. I had to take alcohol and highway safety classes for 5 weeks and out patient rehab for 8 weeks. The cost of both of these classes was almost 600 dollars. I lost my license for 18 months and I have to install a breathalyzer in my car when I get my license back for one year and that is about 500 dollars to install and it also includes a monthly fee. Second DUI's are not cheap! I didn't hire a lawyer. I had a public defender. Sentencing for DUI's is pretty standard. I think that I would have ended up with my same sentence even if I had hired a lawyer.

  • 1 decade ago

    If its been 5 yrs ,the first one may not count.Lawyers cost around 3 grand and the fine 1500 and maybe some community service or if that interferes with his employment,there is a chance only the fine.That is if this will count as 1st offense.Get a driver or taxi they are getting no nonsense about dui's at least it was not a felony.Thank God With any luck the 1st dui won't show unless that one was a felony.Get a lawyer they will give you the best deal they can.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Any time you're dealing with criminal costs, you opt for an felony expert. not having an felony expert in that venture is like appearing surgical operation on your self: not a sturdy theory. greater advantageous than probable, the DUI cost would be "more desirable", meaning the ramifications and the point (this certainly isn't a misdemeanor cost) would be greater intense. My wager is her license would be suspended for some volume of time, on the minimum (any DUI gets your license suspended). sure, she must be finding at penitentiary, yet not detention center; because of the fact of this she incredibly desires to hire an felony expert.

  • 1 decade ago

    Congratulations everyone stand up and clap for this winner. He is not learning. He needs to sit in a car and be tboned by another vehicle to know what he could do to an innocent family. That strikes a nerve with people who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers and some even thought they were okay to drive. 20000 is what prob be the total of everything.

  • 5 years ago

    Criminal Records Search Database : http://infosearchdetective.com/

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