Wow, I didn't know you've been a guest of the state, How long did you do? 24 hours can seem like a long time, I did 15 days once a long time ago and that was enough for me. You're right about the community service thing, but I think they have a foolproof test for DUI ignition lockout either in testing or on the market, that would help these kind of incidents. As long as he didn't harm anyone or any property, then I'd say no jail time, but restricted liscence (driving to and from work-school) for 6 mos. with a 5 year rider on any further DUIs to do 90-180days and a 2 year suspension (as long as no injuries or gross property damages were incurred) if injuries were sustained in a DUI accident then I'd say sufficient jail time to fit the incident. Jail does more damage to a person than benefits either the recipient or society. This society is jail happy. Drug cases are a prime example. People are getting more time for drug offenses than other more heinious crimes like rape, burglary, assaults, robberys, manslaughters etc. The justice bar is certainly blinded at this time.i'm sorry, i know everyone will hate me for this but i think you should serve time for this. i don't dislike you or think less of you but you deserve jail time and community service in a rehab hospital where victims of drunk drivers are trying to learn to walk and talk again. you should have to attend funerals in your state where moms and dads, sisters and brothers have been killed by self absorbed drunks thinking they own the streets.
drinking and driving puts my family and friends at risk, they didn't ask for you to get on the road and if you don't have good enough friends to keep you from driving drunk you shouldn't drink at all.
i spent more time locked up for growing plants than you spend for literally putting lives in jeapardy and that's fubar.
i wish you the best of luck on graduation, i know a man who made his own life very difficult because of habitual dui but he got through it and made himself better after peddling that bike around town for a few years.
Are you saying you'd do some bodily damage to someone that injured your friends or family while drunk, kinda like vigilanty justice.i've spent a lot more than 15 days in, more than several months...more than i deserved for plants.
i don't want to make this guys thread into a sentencing theory exorcise, i know what he's feeling when it seems like life is grinding to a halt and there's nothing good coming down the road but he needs to face reality; driving drunk is the same thing as saying he sees no value in the lives of the people going about their lives on the same road as he is swerving his drunken way down...
i see my friends and family as exceedingly valuable and irreplaceable, i will gladly do time to pay back anyone who harms them because our system is so corrupt that killing people while drunk is treated the same as stealing a few thousand dollars...same rap. not in my book, i'll straighten it myself.