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1. Mullen Law Group: 1. From the time of you receiving your PAC and OWI tickets, in thirty (30) days your driver's license is administratively suspended after EITHER you submit to a breath test or the results are received by the State Crime Lab from your blood draw showing you have a prohibited (either .08 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th OWIs or .02 for 5th and higher) Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level. 2. Once your license has been administratively suspended, YOU NEED TO GET AN OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE FROM THE DMV to drive legally. This is sometimes a challenge. First of all, if you didn't have a valid driver's license when you got pulled over, you will need to get one to be legally on the road. If you didn't care before, you might want to now. Remember the officer who gave you the OWI the night before now knows you don't have a license and also knows your car. If you didn't care before, you might want to now. The term "bait" comes to mind. You might think there is no way you can get your license back, however we at the firm have done some pretty creative things to get people's licenses back. YOU NEED A LAWYER IF YOU WANT YOUR LICENSE BACK. ASK YOURSELF, HOW MUCH IS YOUR LICENSE WORTH TO YOU? AN OAR (Operating After Revoked) carries a fine of up to $2,500.00 and up to 1 year in jail. After you receive one, you still don't have your valid driver's license. 3. If you are eligible to get your Occupational Driver's License from the DMV, find an SR-22 insurance policy from an independent insurance agent, gather $40.00 and go down to the DMV. Once there apply for your Occupational Driver's License. 4. If your local DMV tells you that your license is not suspended, you happen to know that your license is going to be suspended any day. Make sure to go to your local DMV every day when you are of the opinion that your license is about to be suspended. 5. Next go to court on the day your ticket indicates. Plead Not Guilty and the judge will set up a time where you can talk to the D.A. to try to resolve the case. This is called a Pretrial Conference date and a Return Date. This is the time to come back to court and tell the court you have a resolution or tell the court you don't and you want to take your case to a trial. 6. Remember, you only have 10 days from the Initial Appearance date to pay for a jury. It usually costs under 40 dollars, but you have the right to a jury trial for an OWI 1st but you have to exercise this right because an OWI in Wisconsin is a civil ticket and there is no constitutional right to a jury trial because it is not a criminal charge. Pay the fee. 7. Also if you decided to refuse to take either a blood draw or breath test, the fine and ramifications for a refusal are higher than an OWI and treated like an OWI conviction. YOU HAVE 10 DAYS FROM THE TIME OF THE STOP TO REQUEST A REFUSAL HEARING. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, IN WRITING, REQUEST A REFUSAL HEARING AT THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE. 8. When you go to the Pretrial Conference the boilerplate usual offer is, " Plead guilty to the OWI and I'll drop some, if not all, the other traffic tickets." D.A.s want the OWI conviction and really don't care about a speeding ticket or whatever else might have gone on UNLESS THERE WAS DAMAGE CAUSED TO ANYTHING. 9. OWIs are different than any other criminal matter. The offer you will get is dependent on your Blood Alcohol Content. If you "blew" a .18 or had a blood draw which showed you had a Prohibited Blood Alcohol Content of .18, then your offer is going to be whatever the penalties in the .18 bracket of the judicial guidelines are for your county. The D.A. might eventually make an offer to "drop a bracket" and have you plead guilty to an OWI with the penalties of a .149 or so, but the deal still has you pleading guilty to an OWI. 10. If you are found guilty by a jury of your peers, you will be found guilty of an OWI and sentenced to the judicial guidelines of whatever your BAC is, HENCE YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH TO LOSE BY TRYING YOUR CASE.
2. Thorson Law Office: Drunk driving is a serious offense anywhere. Every year in the U.S., at least 16,000 people are killed in auto accidents where drunk driving is a factor. In an effort to reduce this hazard on our roads, law enforcement agencies make more than 1 million OWI / DUI / DWI arrests per year. In Wisconsin alone, the number of arrests is 37,000 per year.