countrymanl67
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Minnesota
Back on October 7th, 2006 I went to a car meet and had 5 beers around 9:30pm. By around midnight I no longer felt any affects of alcohol so I drove home. I was leaving Mankato and took the short cut back to the Twin Cities cutting mileage down to under 60 miles. I was going through a small town going 30 ( the speed limit ) and saw the 55 sighn and started to speed up. all of a sudden I was light up and pulled over for 35 in a 30. To make a long story short, he gave me the breathalizer and said I was over the legal limit. He refused to tell me the number. I did the field tests but told him I could not do the strait line test because I have cerebral paulsy and can't balence to begin with. He brought me back to the Mankato station and then to the hospitol for a blood test. He said I did not seem drunk so he was going to bring me to a motel to stay. They were all full so I ended up in jail. No ticket was issued or anything. One month later I recieved the DMV letter with a 90 suspension. Now in almost February I finally recieved a court date in the mail. It took almost four months for this to happen. My blood test was .08 on the dot. What are my best defences here? The DMV actually said I should pleed not guilty and ask for the lesser charge of careless driving because of how low my BAC was. Needless to say i'm not going to drink a drop of alcohol when going out again. I only make 15K a year and live in an expensive state.
Back on October 7th, 2006 I went to a car meet and had 5 beers around 9:30pm. By around midnight I no longer felt any affects of alcohol so I drove home. I was leaving Mankato and took the short cut back to the Twin Cities cutting mileage down to under 60 miles. I was going through a small town going 30 ( the speed limit ) and saw the 55 sighn and started to speed up. all of a sudden I was light up and pulled over for 35 in a 30. To make a long story short, he gave me the breathalizer and said I was over the legal limit. He refused to tell me the number. I did the field tests but told him I could not do the strait line test because I have cerebral paulsy and can't balence to begin with. He brought me back to the Mankato station and then to the hospitol for a blood test. He said I did not seem drunk so he was going to bring me to a motel to stay. They were all full so I ended up in jail. No ticket was issued or anything. One month later I recieved the DMV letter with a 90 suspension. Now in almost February I finally recieved a court date in the mail. It took almost four months for this to happen. My blood test was .08 on the dot. What are my best defences here? The DMV actually said I should pleed not guilty and ask for the lesser charge of careless driving because of how low my BAC was. Needless to say i'm not going to drink a drop of alcohol when going out again. I only make 15K a year and live in an expensive state.