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Brownsville DWI Lawyers

• Eddie Trevino: When you have been arrested or charged with a crime, you may not know your rights or be afraid to exercise them.
• Sheldon Weisfeld:

  PROBATION:
  
  Most people convicted of a first offense DWI do not serve any jail time. They are technically sentenced to jail, but the jail sentence is suspended and they are put on probation (community supervision). The probation is generally for a term of one to two years. While on probation you must do what the judge orders you to do. These orders are called conditions of probation. If you do not do what the judge has ordered you to do (the conditions) then the judge has the option of revoking your probation and putting you in jail for any number of days up to the original jail sentence you received that was suspended.
  The judge can order any reasonable condition on your probation. The typical conditions of probation are as follows:

  1. Do not violate the law.
  2. Report to your probation officer. (This is usually once a month.)
  3. Pay your fine, court costs and monthly probation fees.
  4. Do your community service. For a first offense DWI you must do between 24 and 80 hours community service. The type of community service varies.
  5. You can not drink alcohol.
  6. You must attend DWI Education classes.
  7. You must attend what is called a Victim Impact Panel. This is presented by M.A.D.D. It is designed to educate on the dangers of DWI.
  8. Get a drug and alcohol evaluation. (If the evaluation reveals you have a problem with drugs or alcohol then treatment of the problem will be ordered.)
  9. Maintain a job.

  {These are the most common conditions that are imposed on a person placed on probation on a DWI first offense}
  

• Joseph Graham: Approximately 1.5 million people are arrested for DWI annually in the United States. The DWI machine snares many fine, upstanding people. You don't have to be guilty or a bad person to be accused. Sometimes good people get in bad trouble, and when they do, they need a good lawyer.