First DUI - Tier 3

[FlowerChild]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Pennsylvania

My husband (finally) got a DUI after drinking and driving many times. I know all about the fines/charges he will face but I would like to know if he will actually spend any time at all in jail. His BAC was .21.

Also, two years ago, he walked to a bar because I took his keys are was arrested for public drunkedness (he decided to take a nap on the side of the road on the way home). Will ANYONE in the process look up any past charges? Like in the CRN process, for example?

Hey - don't send messages trashing me. I did everything humanly possibly to attempt to stop him from drinking and driving. I was never with him and was powerless to make him stop.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

 

[woodykas]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Pennsylvania

My husband (finally) got a DUI after drinking and driving many times. I know all about the fines/charges he will face but I would like to know if he will actually spend any time at all in jail. His BAC was .21.

It is supposed to be 72 hours mandatory jail time with 108 days suspended. probably more considering his prior alcohol-related history.

 

[FlowerChild]

I realize that is what it says but my question was - does that actually happen? Do people actually go to jail?

Do they review any other records from your past or is that irrelevant?

 

[woodykas]

I realize that is what it says but my question was - does that actually happen? Do people actually go to jail?

Do they review any other records from your past or is that irrelevant?

with .21 BAC - yes. 72 hours is mandatory, there is only few exceptions like your husband medical conditions or so.

yes.

 

[FlowerChild]

Yes - they do review your past record?

I looked up the public drunk charge and it is "inactive"....

Basically - I want him to really learn a lesson. This could easily have been that he killed someone....a DUI is a blessing.

 

[woodykas]

Yes - they do review your past record?

I looked up the public drunk charge and it is "inactive"....

Basically - I want him to really learn a lesson. This could easily have been that he killed someone....a DUI is a blessing.

yes, they always can look for his violations, and it is always depends to the Judge if he consider this public drunk charge or not. You can hope for the best, but I think there is a mandatory jail time anyway.

 

[FlowerChild]

I'm not being a loving concerned wife....

I've been through hell and I want him to never, ever forget this experience! A few nights in jail hopefully will scare the crap out of him.

He is very lucky that he didn't kill someone.

 

[artbuc]

I'm not being a loving concerned wife....

I've been through hell and I want him to never, ever forget this experience! A few nights in jail hopefully will scare the crap out of him.

He is very lucky that he didn't kill someone.

No, the people who did not get killed are the lucky ones. I strongly suggest you go to Al-anon to learn how you can best help yourself and your husband. Your husband has a very serious drinking problem which you are enabling by staying with him. If you think a few nights in jail will stop an alcoholic from drinking then you don't know anything about alcoholics.

 

[woodykas]

No, the people who did not get killed are the lucky ones. I strongly suggest you go to Al-anon to learn how you can best help yourself and your husband. Your husband has a very serious drinking problem which you are enabling by staying with him. If you think a few nights in jail will stop an alcoholic from drinking then you don't know anything about alcoholics.

actually in some cases judges can order 6 Month suspended sentence with 1-3 years probation with mandatory random weekly UA EtG tests, so there is no way to drink. unless he wants to serve 6 months in jail.

 

[FlowerChild]

No, the people who did not get killed are the lucky ones. I strongly suggest you go to Al-anon to learn how you can best help yourself and your husband. Your husband has a very serious drinking problem which you are enabling by staying with him. If you think a few nights in jail will stop an alcoholic from drinking then you don't know anything about alcoholics.

Thank you - I've done that. My husband is an interesting type of alcoholic. We have been married only 3 years. He is 56 I am 50. He rarely if ever drinks at home but if he goes to a bar, he stays until it closes. He is a overgrown frat boy. He can go for weeks without drinking - but if he attends an event and gets out - he stays out. I have had this discussion with many people and it is difficult to understand. He attends an event - has a few - and then stops at 2-3 bars on his way home. Something changes in him and he thinks he is 20 again.....but as I said - weeks go by and he'll have a beer or two while watching a sporting event. Over Labor Day, our neighbor had a party - I joked that it was the perfect situation - we walk home. He drank all day - I went back to help with the clean-up and he was sound asleep. At some point (we had a new puppy and I was on the couch), he woke up snuck out of the house and went to a bar!!! I was amazed to say the least. He was completely passed out but something in him woke him up and he went out to drink! I do not mean to enable him - I am in a tough situation with my home. He asked his name be put on the deed when we married. When I suggest divorce, he wants half the value of my home that I lived in for 15 years before I knew him when I was single. Married late in life and married too soon after a death....I was weak!