Ok I need all the help I can get and I'm hoping that any laywers out there will be able to lend some (free!) advice.
Basically, last night I got pulled over at a ride program and blew over the legal limit (more than .080). They cuff me I go to jail. I obviously know what I did was wrong...studpid actually...one drink is one drink too many. Officially I am being charged with driving over the legal limit.
But here is the thing. I didn't actually drink that much...maybe 3 or 4 drinks...but because I finished that last beer (one big gulp) and was stopped in the ride program less than 5 minutes afterwards the booze smell was right on my breath and I was driving 4 other guys who had been boozing heavily all night home, hence the car smelled like alcohol.
When they took me to the station I co-operated and was pleasant and even did the sobriety test (walked the line, touch your nose, all that jazz) and I passed with flying colours. At the station I blew a .169 (I realize this is twice the limit but before the beer I did have a shot of vodka (again, stupid)). We're looking at 3 beers and this shot and that's what I blew. A half hour later I blew a .155.
Bascially what I am asking is if I were to choose to get a laywer, any chance I would actually beat this and get off? For me its not losing my license or paying the money, it's having that kind of charge on my record and I really don't think I could handle that kind of thing on the rap sheet. I'm a straight arrow, never been in troubled with police before, this is pretty much it. I don't even go out much. Just one bad stupid night.
Any advice? Feel free to PM me to speak more about it....but please, any help would be greatly appreciated and again, I'm sorry for being so stupid.
Basically, last night I got pulled over at a ride program and blew over the legal limit (more than .080). They cuff me I go to jail. I obviously know what I did was wrong...studpid actually...one drink is one drink too many. Officially I am being charged with driving over the legal limit.
But here is the thing. I didn't actually drink that much...maybe 3 or 4 drinks...but because I finished that last beer (one big gulp) and was stopped in the ride program less than 5 minutes afterwards the booze smell was right on my breath and I was driving 4 other guys who had been boozing heavily all night home, hence the car smelled like alcohol.
When they took me to the station I co-operated and was pleasant and even did the sobriety test (walked the line, touch your nose, all that jazz) and I passed with flying colours. At the station I blew a .169 (I realize this is twice the limit but before the beer I did have a shot of vodka (again, stupid)). We're looking at 3 beers and this shot and that's what I blew. A half hour later I blew a .155.
Bascially what I am asking is if I were to choose to get a laywer, any chance I would actually beat this and get off? For me its not losing my license or paying the money, it's having that kind of charge on my record and I really don't think I could handle that kind of thing on the rap sheet. I'm a straight arrow, never been in troubled with police before, this is pretty much it. I don't even go out much. Just one bad stupid night.
Any advice? Feel free to PM me to speak more about it....but please, any help would be greatly appreciated and again, I'm sorry for being so stupid.
I don't think there are a lot of "straight arrows" here. lol
