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Originally Posted by kane
If you get hit by the police they will charge you with resisting/assault because they will say that is why they hit you. In many cases it is dropped.
It is the other thing I don't follow. You say you got a lighter sentence because they charged you under the wrong subsection of the statute. Does this mean that once the mistake was pointed out they dropped some charged therefore you avoided any punishment for them or does this mean that they modified the charges to put them under the correct subsection which then carried a much lighter penalty?
Also, you say you never drive drunk, but you were charged with DUI. Had you drank at all in the few hours before you got behind the wheel? You might be shocked at how little you actually have to drink to be over the legal limit.
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They lawyers were telling me I'd be sentenced to 5 days jail + 85 days house arrest.. Then I read the statute myself and found out why. It was because on my case it said the statute number subsection E which describes punishments for FOURTH offense. 5 days + 85 is minimum sentencing for FOURTH offense.
So now I am eating a sentence more in line with what I am actually charged with. Second offense, since I was convicted of one back in 2007.